Inspried by the “Is Prince Charles Going Bald Thread,” I knew a guy and he started losing his hair around 19 and by 21 he was pretty much bald. Both his father and older brother were bald early too.
I was just wondering what is the earliest you’ve seen male pattern baldness in someone. Obviously I am discounting things like diseases or cancer treatment, I mean “the natural” male pattern baldness type of thing.
(Actually I just thought that this doesn’t really ask a general question, I’ll ask the mod to move it, my apologies)
I don’t win this one overall here, but I’m the youngest I’ve known go bald. I started thinning pretty seriously at around 24, and by the time I was 27 I had practically nothing left on top. Such is life.
High school, actually. My brother really started to go bald while he was in the army, so for him it was his 20’s. Heh- after all that head-shavin’, he couldn’t wait to grow his hair long again. Only problem was, a bunch of his hair apparently didn’t get discharged along with him! :eek:
My best friend started very noticeably receding at about 14 or 15. It got worse and worse throughout his teens and then pretty much held. By 16 he was making a Big Deal about it and looking into things like propecia, rogaine, transplants, etc. Now at 28, his hairline is waaaaaaay back, but doesn’t seem to be moving anymore. His dad is the same way.
Another early twenties here. Not me, but a friend in college. He was a year or two ahead of me, so he’d have been 21 or so. The bald spot hadn’t arrived yet, but the reservation had been made and the table was set.
A high school classmate of mine was both receeding and thinning by the time we got to senior year. The day after winter break he walked in wearing a toupee.
Yep, I went to high school with a balding guy. Actually, he looked like he was in his mid-twenties when he was still 16. Once he was standing outside a liquor store when a couple of college freshman came up to him and asked him to buy beer for them. When he explained that he was younger than they were, they got upset, telling him he should have just said no if he didn’t want to buy them beer, instead of making up some outrageous lie about being just 16.
I knew a couple of guys whose hairlines were receding noticeably by their senior years of high school. One of them is noticeably thin on top now at 21; can’t speak to the other because I haven’t seen him in a few years. Another friend is now balding perceptibly at 21.
Myself, I’ve been watching my hairline carefully- I either have one hell of a widow’s peak or it’s sneaking backwards (I’m 21.) It may just be the widow’s peak, though, since it hasn’t moved perceptibly since high school. Dad has a severally receded hairline that seems to be done receding but thick, not-gray hair at 51, my maternal uncle has a full head of hair at 44ish, and my maternal grandfather looks like a cue ball and has since his forties.
I used to have a very close friend that I played softball with who was somewhat noticably heading that direction by tenth (15?) grade. Another guy I graduated with had the same problem before high school’s end, but I didn’t pay attention to when it began.
My husband’s hair started receding at about 18 and set in to serious loss over the next three years. By the time I met him when he was 23, he had a large bald spot in back that was almost completely connected to his receding hair in the front.
There was a guy in my High School who was very bald by age 17 or 18. He had no hair on top, and just a bit around the sides. He wore a hat about 99% of the time. I was shocked the first time I saw him without his hat.
I felt really bad for him. He was quite a jerk actually, but I suppose he was acting that way to compensate.
My last boss also went bald very young. He was just out of H.S. when he started thinning, and he was about 75% bald by the end of college.
I had a classmate, Adam, who didn’t appear to be going bald when I saw him at 15, but his Dad was completely Bozo-the-Clown bald. The next time I saw Adam was about two years later, and he was halfway to his Dad’s level of bald. Presumably two years after that, all gone, but I haven’t seen him since so I can’t confirm.
I started losing my hair at about 27, and now, at 39, though it’s still reasonably plentiful in the dorky locations, it’s definitely receding faster and faster.
