California Teen Does Her Senior Project on Alopecia
Lindsay Adams was a senior at Nevada Valley High School last May when she was invited to write as a special correspondent for TheUnion.com about her experience as an alopecian. Here is a selection from her piece:
At a time in a child’s life when “fitting in” is of utmost importance, and appearance is really that by which your peers judge you, losing your hair can be devastating.
When a person is just beginning to develop who they are and deciding what they want to be in life, losing hair seems like losing your identity.
What 12-year-old girl has the confidence and self-esteem to lose half the hair on her head and still “fit in” with the other kids at school?
Well, when I was a seventh-grade student at Seven Hills Middle School, all those feelings, concerns and challenges came into focus for me.
It was precisely at that time that I was diagnosed with Alopecia, an autoimmune disease that results in the loss of hair on the scalp and, for some people, the entire body……
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