Never. I’m cue ball bald, but that is a fashion choice, not genetics.
Have been shaving my head, due to baldness since I was 25 started going grey about the same time.
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The men on my dad’s side of the family all went grey early and never went bald. This gives me a certain amount of hope, as I started going grey at 20.
The men on my mom’s side of the family all went hella bald.
I’ve pretty much come to terms with waking up one morning sometime in the next 10 years and having no hair left.
I’m in my mid fifties, and my hair is as thick as it’s ever been, although the salt is starting to edge out the pepper. My six years younger brother, however, is about 90% bald so he shaves it all off. I attribute the difference to the fact that he has a wife, a mess of kids, and in-laws living with him. I have none of the above.
Sorry to tell you this, JB, but they say hair patterns come from the maternal side of the tree.
Going to be 40 in March and still have my hair. Judging by my family on both sides, I must have been left on the doorstep in a basket or something because genetics don’t work that way.
Shortly after I learned of my 300 IQ and earned a perfect score on the SAT. It was disheartening to begin losing my hair at age four, but using items from my toybox and mom’s makeup kit I invented a cure for baldness and regrew all my hair. (Patent still pending.)
They do say that, but it’s not consistently or predictably so. I am losing my hair like my Uncles on both sides of the family, my brother is not losing his hair at all.
I was in my mid 60s and it might not count for your purposes because I’m going bald in an area of my head that was subjected to 21 radiation treatments for a skin cancer.
I am proof that this isn’t true (as **GuanoLad **said); my maternal grandfather was as bald as an egg, save for a fringe of hair, by the time he was my age (27), based on old pictures of him. On the other hand, my father started balding and going gray in his mid-20s (receding hairline, he still has most of his hair but a high forehead at 62, seems to have progressed in two stages with ~30 years of little change in between); I don’t have either yet so it would seem my genes didn’t come from either side of the family (of course, I don’t know what happened to my great-grandfathers; as for the gray hair genes, on my mother’s side my grandmother was still more brown than gray when she died at age 83, same for my grandfather, what was left anyway, and my mother currently has only some gray hairs at 62, about the same as my father at my age).
Late 20’s, but I kept my hair longer than most of the men in my family.
Mine is finally starting to thin out a bit on top, but I mostly still have my hair at 65. It started slowly turning gray at about 30, however.
Not at all, even on top, and I’m 61.
I just saw an old photo of me as a recent college grad… and my hairline was pretty high even back then. The pic was 30 years ago, so I’m balding, but a lot more slowly than I’d thought.
Age 48, no thinning, and my hairline is still in the same place.
In fact, I have a few rogue hairs advancing about a half inch below the hairline. :eek:
The first time I looked in the mirror and thought to myself, “I think I might be losing my hair”, I was 19. I’m 31 now, and technically I guess I still have hair on my head. But it’s very, very thin and patchy. I keep it cut very short so it doesn’t look strange, and so for all intents and purposes, all I have left is “the ring”.
There are people who START balding at age 60-69? I dunno, I think once you reach age…maybe 30 or so and you haven’t started balding yet, you’re more or less in the clear.
With that said, I guess it depends on how we’re going to define “start”; by the time you notice your hair is thinner, you’ve been balding for a while. Almost everyone misses noticing the initial recession at the corners of the hairline.
It became noticeable a few years ago. My hair is still pretty thick, but my hairline is receding.
I was in my mid-thirties the first time I got a sunburn on the top of my head.
Hence why I say I’ve come to terms with going bald one day, but for the moment I’m happy to cling to the faint hope that I won a small genetic lottery.