organize a pro-bald Alopecia meetup

I love this idea—I think tehre must be more people around than we know.

I ran into Mara at Trader Joe’s. She mentioned that she’s been to a couple Alopecia support group meetings in Seattle but was really jonesing to organize a pro-bald meetup. No doctors, no wigs, no headscarve … just pro-baldies. I’ll paraphrase Mara, “for people not wanting their hair even if they could get it back”. We thought maybe meeting at a cafe, park or bar would be fun. We could talk about anything, but the purpose of the meetup would mostly be to hang out with other bald Alopecians, share some stories and very likely rub each others heads as a sort of secret society handshake.

Granted this conversation occured in the cereal isle—but Trader Joe’s has a great cereal selection and this sounds like a great idea.

• Do you have Alopecia?
• Do you enjoy being bald?
• Do you not wear a wig or headscarf?
• Are you a woman or a man?
• If a doctor gave you a pill that would give you all your hair back would you take that hair pill and feed it to a pigeon?