At what age did you consider yourself to be bald?

[Argyle]

I guess that this is more of a question for those with MPB, but you read a lot of posts on here with people worrying about how old they are when they start losing their hair.  So I just wondered at what age you guys considered yourself to be bald? 

I suppose it will be different for different people in terms of when you accepted or acknowledged it. 

For me i made the sly decision about two years ago whilst holidaying in Budapest (in winter!!!!!!).  I got sick of playing around with the fluff on top of my head and got out the mach 3.  At that point I knew I was a bald man, had trouble accepting it, but it has got progressivley better ever since.  My old confidence now shines through if not more so than before!

I was 27 i guess when i finally admitted that i was a bald man.  However I had been denying it for a year or so before that and having looked at photos back then cant believe i did. 

So how old were you?

[SLYinKC]

I had a pretty full head of hair until my mid-thirties it started to thin.  By the time I past 40 it was really starting to show.  I just kept buzzing shorter and shorter.  Then one day I found this site and one of my bald brothers helped me to realize that I was already bald, I was just trying to hide it.  It is so great to get that monkey off of your back.

[PianoMan]

Around 26/27.  I had a full head of hair when I got married at 24, but started buzzing my hair a couple years later. 

[schro]

Great topic Argyle!
I was thinning in high school. What hair I did have was curly and looked like "Johnny Slash" from the short lived TV Show "Square Pegs" starring Sarah Jessica Parker. In college, I wore it shorter to minimize the curl. But, the mpb was definitely noticable and it was obvious at age 20 that I was destined to look like my dad.

But I'll never forget a day in the summer of 1993 (age 27). I was golfing with a buddy. We played on a beautiful sunny day and I played without a hat. We walked the course (so no cart for protection from the sun). I got home and took a shower. Under the hot water, my scalp was fried from the sunburn I got for going hatless...  major YIKES. I was age 27. Never played golf without a hat since....until I went sly.  Now, I occasionally play golf without a hat for that intimidating effect (put on the spf30 when I do, and use a spray sunscreen after the front nine).

[jusbnme]

I noticed my hair line in the front starting to climb around my last year of high school.  It just kept getting higher each year and then eventually started thinning on my crown.  It's not too noticeable unless I let it go for about a month.  Then you can definitely see the "goose egg."  I think I was about 25 when I really started noticing a difference. 

[TheSlyBear]

25 or so

[Mikekoz13]

I knew it was in the cards for me just by looking at my Dad all those years with his MPB.

About 10 years ago at age 37 i realized time was getting close to do something about my hair.... which was still over my collar in the back but getting very thin on top. About seven and a half years ago I buzzed it down to about 1/4 inch. I wore it like that until last July.... that's when I went SLY.

[mojim]

Late 30's till I finally accepted the fact that it was going...Never went bald, just mpb...
So I can honestly say that I considered myself bald the first time when I shaved my head and joined SBG's..

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Never let it get that far, in my mid-30's my daughter said, "Daddy has a hole in the back of his head!"  Kids!!!!!
Still, I had a "mature" hairline in my twenties and thirties, but it seemed to stabilize during my 40's, but time marches on and raising kids didn't help, so about a year and a half ago or maybe more I think it was I started really noticing how thin it was on top.  After the shower combback was really telling, thin as new grass.  And then, last year I got a real shock while tying my tie for work, I looked in the mirror and noticed that I could not only see the line of the scalp under the hair, but the window behind me.  That really got me going because I had known for a really long time that I wouldn't wear the fringe or hairy toilet seat or anything even close to it, and the mirror told me that it was close to it.  I tried buzzing, but that was too late by at least a couple of years.  But that view of the window and my scalp line in the mirror started the trip, less than 6 months to Sly.  Probably should have done it two maybe even three years earlier.

[nomad]

WHAT?  I'm bald?  Dam it

[Tyler]

About 24 was the first time my scalp got burned while I still had hair on it.  I knew that I'd be shaving soon and about 3 months later it was gone.

[nomad]

About 24 was the first time my scalp got burned while I still had hair on it.  I knew that I'd be shaving soon and about 3 months later it was gone.

I was about 30 when the same thing happened to me, man that was a bad burn

[ChallengeMe]

When I first looked at my wedding pictures (35 years ago) looking at my back, I could see I was starting to thin in the back. After the wedding, a lot of hair started coming out whenever I washed my hair. But I never admitted going bald. I parted my hair way off the side; I guess I had the comb over. Not sure when I admitted I was bald though. But it took too long.

[Adam]

I was in my early 20's.  Maybe even as early as 18 or 19.  My hair started leaving me, and I'd get teased about the "widow's peak" I had going on, as one friend called it.  I had moved to northern VA in July of 2001, and was sporting a somewhat short haircut.  I usually kept it pretty short.  I moved back home to IL in October 2002, and it was really noticeable to my friends.  One lady friend advised that I try shaving it, that it would make me look younger (I was only 22 at the time).  I let her shave it for me, and the rest is history.  Sly 4 Life!

[dieseldan04]

About 21 for me, my hairline started receeding at 16.  I first shaved it at 29, but didn't go sly for good until I was 37.