The Person I Reblogged This From Deserves To Be Happy.

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

This post is also very much for people (like myself) whose alopecia areata doesn’t just affect them from the neck up, by the way.

Your body is a work of art.

Patchy body hair is beautiful

“Bald is beautiful”

Okay, but what about patchy?

Why, when I told my doctor that I had come to terms with my alopecia areata and didn’t want to treat my visible hair loss, did she give me a recommendation for a hair growth serum anyway?

Patchy is beautiful

The patterns it creates, unique to every person

The thicker spots that turn to soft, thin hairs as you run your hand across your scalp

The halo when you’re backlit, speckled like light filtering through tree leaves

Beautiful.

At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

I’m not sure who needs to hear this but it’s normal and okay to be DISABLED by your DISABILITY.

Sometimes it is going to stop you from doing things, and that’s okay. Sometimes it’s going to get in your way or make you struggle or cause problems in your life. But that’s okay, that’s why it’s called a disability.

You don’t need to fight yourself or “not let it hold you back” because a lot of times it will, but that’s the point.

This is your random reminder to DRINK WATER!

It is alopecia hours