I started getting them about 3 years ago. I was 29. They are still rare but I will be gray by age 40.
Ya just gotta suck it up.
Well, I’m also 22 and have no gray hairs. I hope I take after my dad, who’ll be 55 next week and has a full head of black curly hair. Unfortunately, I doubt it, which means I’ll probably start getting a few white hairs in about twenty years, a la my mom.
You know, Drain, the only reason you got that gray hair is because of iksova’s post here!!!
I was about 20 when I found my first one. Now I’m 34 and I color. Religiously.
I found my first when I was 22, too. That was a pretty stressful time in my life, so I wasn’t too terribly surprised. Thing is, at 28, I’m noticing a streak starting to develop on the left side of my head, about 2" in from the temple. This is why I, also, color religiously.
I’ve had single, errant white hairs on my head since childhood. I started noticing enough of them together to be called “grey” when I was 25. This nicely coincided with the first year of the elder little flodnak’s life, when I spent far too much time in the hospital children’s ward learning how to be a b*tch, so stress played its role. But I never remember my mother with anything but fully grey hair, and she was 36 when I was born. My brother hardly has a dark hair left at 41. Genetically, I was doomed anyway.
I’m 31 now, and I don’t color religiously, but I am very happy to have wash-in, wash-out hair coloring products available when I want them. And ooh yes, I have also made friends with my tweezers.
I noticed my first ones a couple years ago. And I am 21 now!
It is no big deal. I do not mind going gray, as long as I keep all my hair. I would rather go completely gray by 25 than have dark hair but go bald at 50. As long as I keep all my hair, I do not care what color it is.
…Besides, there is always hair dye. It is much easier to dye than to cover up baldness.
I got my first grey hair when I was twenty-seven. I kept finding them periodically until I dumped my XBF. Didn’t find any more until a little over a year ago, when the pit boss, in his infinite wisdom, decided to start having me sit box. Management, even part-time management, didn’t agree with me.
I started coloring about eight months ago, more out of a desire to be a redhead than to cover the grey.
I was forty when the first gray hair showed up. Now I have nothing but gray.
I was in my late teens…early twenties when my 1st grey hair erupted from me skull.
I’m 36 and quite grey. My father is 73, full head of hair…but so white, planes land in his yard all the time.
When I grow one, my beard has ribbons of grey at the corners of my mouth travelling down to underneath my chin (s). When I have a beard, I look like I’m about 109 yrs old.
My daughter just turned 7…she has beautiful long blonde hair. On top, there are 3 white strands.
I have propagated my genes…I can die happy…and judging by the amount of grey…that will be tomorrow.
It was early twenties for me, and the funny thing is that even tho I try to keep them apart, they still seem to multiply.
My mom was grey in her early 30’s and dad in his early 50’s.
My paternal grandmother had an early head of white hair and I think I’m taking after her. Like Drain, I’m finding white, not grey.
My maternal grandmother - shoot, who knows what her natural color is - she’s dyed it for so long that its this blondish-reddish-fuzz on her head.
I, personally, will not be dying mine. Maybe that’s just rebellion against my mom who thinks grey hair is an anathema.
I’m almost 33 and am getting more of them everyday. Better than dishwater blonde/mouse brown. 
I got my first white streak at age 10, as the result of me hitting my head on a curb in a bicycle accident. I still have a bump over my right eye at the hairline, and the hair there has grown in white ever since.
I didn’t really mind, it was kind of cool to be the only kid in grammar school & junior high with grey hair. There is a newscaster in LA named Colleen Williams who used to show off her white streak in the front, but I think she dyes it now. It was huge- think Elsa Lancaster.
Now I do dye, but not cause I hate my streak, just cause I like the color. It is a gradual wash-out type that covers gray very well. Keep in mind, Drain, that if you’re going to color, gray & white hairs don’t take color very well. Ask a stylist what is a good product for covering gray.
And no, I have not found any more since the baby was born, but now that he’s crawling and opening cupboards, maybe they’ll sprout.
I saw my first about a year ago. I’m 42 in October. Still only have a few, and I pluck them out if I notice them. I have very curly hair, but it is of two types. Curly, thick and coarse, and thin and wavy. I only pluck the curly thick ones 'cuz they’re so noticeable. I’m too chicken to color my hair! I tried it once just for dark red highlights (I’m brunette), and I guess it looked ok, but it felt funny to see myself with different colored hair. I know. I’m silly.
So I’m a little strange. My husband, who’s 6 years older than I am, has lots of grey on his temples and in his beard. I like it. I had a grey hair once, about 3 years ago (when I was 33). I was soooo excited–and then it fell out. On its own. Damn.
I check my head religiously, looking for more. Sigh. So far, none.
I’m not going to dye my hair. I have no idea why I feel this way. Have you ever seen Heloise on TV (the hints lady)? She has a full head of clearly prematurely grey hair. It is cool.
Around 40; but then Im blond…they grey much later. No sign of them as pubic hairs yet.
I found my first one when I was sixteen.
Yesterday I counted four.
I’m not worried about it though… white hair is cool. 
I have gray hairs that are older than you, Drain Bead. And if it’s any consolation, I somehow still manage to hobble around my daily routine.
I do rather wonder where all the women who think grey hair is cool are…
White hair started coming in right along the front (same spot as my late brother) at about 20. Now its liberally scattered throughout at 36. Also, hair on the chest has started to go white. I’ll never, ever be bald (my barber once told me I had hair like a labrador retreiever, which is unfortunately true. Just as thick and water repellant), but it will all be white. My SO says it makes me look “distinguished.” As long as she likes it, I’m cool with it.
My beard is slowly going grey, but the rest of my head hair seems to be hanging on to the brown. I recently found lots of hair in and on my ears! I hate ear tufts! Scary old men have ear tufts, not 36 year olds! Needless to say, I plucked like crazy, and I check it about once a week.
Grey hair I can deal with - Visible ear hair is a frightening and horrible sign of aging and poor grooming, and maybe senility.