That's the best comment on HairLossTalk.com that I have ever seen. I argue this daily and I seem to get a lot of resistance or maybe less so disbelief.Need more pictures but you appear to be a NW1 on this side and no longer a NW0.
Take some from the front. Take some from each side. Like a direct profile view. With the hair pulled/combed back.
Here's a way to keep a check. Notice how the corner of your hair line seems to still be in front of your sideburns. That is NW1 territory. Kind of hard to show from this angle but I'll try.
If the corner of the purple lined up with the side burn that is typically a NW2ish. The blue is yours. It appears to still be infront of the sideburn. That is typically NW1ish. The red is pcould have been where your juvenile hair line was and is NW0. Some people though have a NW1 as a juvenile or even a NW2.
Also, if you did used to have the red line. The hair that would have been there could have been sparse and thinner. Doesn't necessarily mean it would have been a perfect dense line. Think about womens hair lines, kids, and yes plenty of men that have a full head but that part of their hair is thinner and/or shorter hairs.
[This is the best I can show from that angle. Hope it helps]
No. You are neither bald nor balding with this hair but merely pre-balding with a respectable chance of having it halt there but it won't get better without treatment and usually first out hair in the temples is the hardest to ever coax back. I noticed all of this when my hair grew back and a huge amount of regrowth was in front of my ears towards the side burns and also the hair line. Now the temples are slowly improving. Your hair quality in the fringe is likely to never go down in quality in what hair you still have which is important to the viability of transplants as a restoration method. For some, results in your category of hair, are amazingly good and natural looking but we might only notice the bad ones.Wow man thank you for the response i appreciate it. I will post more pictures if it helps. But basically you sre saying that its possible for hair to just be thinner in that area? Would you consider that balding? Also i never really had a NW0 such as what yku described with the red line.