With your friends, within a year, if you're a girl, it will be extremely easy to tell them. If you're a guy, hopefully easier. But the worst that can happen is they'll joke around with you about it. When I told my friends, it didn't phase them at all they were sad but, when they saw me with my extensions they said it looked like my hair was fine.

You will encounter cruel people a long the way. I was called "Baldass" once by someone, and others gave me dirty looks if my head was showing. But I havent seen any of those people in two years.

Don't be scared, there are tons of ways to help it, the steroid shots I'm afraid are only temporary, if you choose to take them, expect the 30 shots a month for many years. I missed one month, and my hair had already started falling out again. I'm choosing not to do the shots anymore, and I'm just staying with my wigs. If you're a girl, there are very nice wigs that can be $100 to $500.

Also, if you get the shots, do it as soon as you can, catching it early might actually help you a lot more than it did me.

And I'm really flattered with the P. P. S. c:

Here's an awesome site you can go to for more information and help with Alopecia: http://www.naaf.org

I'm thinking of going to an event and meeting other people with this.

By the way, your courage grows as time passes, eventually it wont even bother you, but there will be those days of depression with it, but they don't come often at all. I had one not too long ago, but I pushed through it.