people treat you different because of male pattern baldness
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s.a.f
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I dont care what anyone says people do treat you differntly depending on how you look but its not just about hairloss. And before anyone says "not me I'm not that shallow" it all happens subconciously. If you meet a very attractive woman. Without even knowing it you will want to interact/make contact with her, even if its just getting her to look in your direction and acknowledge you.
Whereas with someone who is unnatractive you dont care if they are there or not unless of course you have some other connection with them eg they are known to you.
This is just an advantage that goodlooking people have and take for granted. It's been scientificly proven in numerous pshycological tests that the more attractive you are the more people are willing to see you in a more positive light. But its not just with the opposite sex, goodlooking men are never short of freinds as other guys will always want to hang around with them in order to associate themselves with them.
However Dutch this does'nt mean to say that if people are giving you a hard time its because of your hairloss, maybe you just presume that it is.
Whereas with someone who is unnatractive you dont care if they are there or not unless of course you have some other connection with them eg they are known to you.
This is just an advantage that goodlooking people have and take for granted. It's been scientificly proven in numerous pshycological tests that the more attractive you are the more people are willing to see you in a more positive light. But its not just with the opposite sex, goodlooking men are never short of freinds as other guys will always want to hang around with them in order to associate themselves with them.
However Dutch this does'nt mean to say that if people are giving you a hard time its because of your hairloss, maybe you just presume that it is.
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I definetly agree with you on this one s.a.f. . I can´t say that people treat me different because of male pattern baldness (It is still not noticeable to the untrained eye), but I am generally very ugly. Due to that I often got bullied by complete strangers who knew nothing about me. There must be something about my looks what provokes other people to tease me. There is nothing I can do about it.
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Yeah, but how do they see notice this?
Yeah mate it'd definatly be to do with self-esteem. If people notice those thing's about you as S.A.F. just said, then they presume you to be a kind of 'meek' individual and will believe they can walk all over you. That was taught to me in my first year of uni by some mates, they actually flat out told me that the way I acted made me appear meek, it was nothing to do with hair/face/body or anything.
Johnny24601
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Without a doubt people make judgments based on looks but a balding head is just part of the equation and contrary to most of the people on this board, I don't think people just see a receding hairline and have a conscious or subconscious negative reaction.
What I think is even more relevant is the fact that men who have a hard time accepting their hairloss exude poor self esteem and therefore people have less respect for them.
BTW, what do you want to come out of this discussion? Discussions such as this only further one's own self pity and therefore reaffirm their lack of self esteem. Sure individuals are vain and make judgments based on looks, so what....just deal with it and move on. Stop bitching about it!
Without a doubt people make judgments based on looks but a balding head is just part of the equation and contrary to most of the people on this board, I don't think people just see a receding hairline and have a conscious or subconscious negative reaction.
What I think is even more relevant is the fact that men who have a hard time accepting their hairloss exude poor self esteem and therefore people have less respect for them.
BTW, what do you want to come out of this discussion? Discussions such as this only further one's own self pity and therefore reaffirm their lack of self esteem. Sure individuals are vain and make judgments based on looks, so what....just deal with it and move on. Stop bitching about it!
Hairloss by itself makes no difference whatsoever. My mate is 20, not particularly good looking, and is a nw3 and his nickname is 'baldy' among other things, but hes got lotsa confidence and his girlfriend is reeeeally hot. Hairloss in itself is no bad thing, it depends on how you deal with it.
s.a.f
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I think it depends on the character that you have established for yourself when hairloss first hits you. If you have good confidence hairloss can still damage your self esteem but its likely that you will get over it. However if you have poor confidence it can be devastating and could severly effect you for the worse.
