*blinks* For a moment, I thought Gordon Burns is your dad. ;o)
In my memory, my dad has always had salt&pepper hair (he's completely white now). Even on his wedding photograph he has grey temples (he was 30).
My first grey started to appear when I was about 6 or so, first a spot about the size of a 50p coin and growing steadily. Various dermatologists took samples of my scalp but couldn't explain the pigment loss. At age 12 (IIRC) I was told I could be completely white by the age of 20 (nice one to tell a 12-year-old, isn't it?). Luckily that didn't happen. The spot stopped growing eventually at about 6cm across. Nothing happened for a while and then from about age 25, the greys started falling out, creating the tonsure I now have.
I'm now 35 and of the hairs I still have, only a few are white which is only to be expected. I'm doing better than my dad in that regard but my dad really doesn't have a bald spot, just a widow's peak.
My mum's dad only had a few grey hairs when he died at the age of 75 but he only had a ring of hair around the back of his head left. I guess I'm heading somewhere between the two.
Unfortunately, I don't have any information on my dad's dad, as he was MIA in WWII.
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Date: 2005-05-09 10:53 pm (UTC)In my memory, my dad has always had salt&pepper hair (he's completely white now). Even on his wedding photograph he has grey temples (he was 30).
My first grey started to appear when I was about 6 or so, first a spot about the size of a 50p coin and growing steadily. Various dermatologists took samples of my scalp but couldn't explain the pigment loss. At age 12 (IIRC) I was told I could be completely white by the age of 20 (nice one to tell a 12-year-old, isn't it?). Luckily that didn't happen. The spot stopped growing eventually at about 6cm across. Nothing happened for a while and then from about age 25, the greys started falling out, creating the tonsure I now have.
I'm now 35 and of the hairs I still have, only a few are white which is only to be expected. I'm doing better than my dad in that regard but my dad really doesn't have a bald spot, just a widow's peak.
My mum's dad only had a few grey hairs when he died at the age of 75 but he only had a ring of hair around the back of his head left. I guess I'm heading somewhere between the two.
Unfortunately, I don't have any information on my dad's dad, as he was MIA in WWII.