Thank you! It’s already a lot better than it used to be, but my hair is permanently damaged and will never come back completely. Bummer. Thankfully I’m pretty used to the wig life.

Thank you! I don’t tell absolutely everyone about it but I’ve told a lot of my friends. The only place I really hide it is work. I think it’s easier for me because my friends are very psychologically literate, everyone I know has a disorder of some kind.

Hi! I almost never talk to other people with trich, this Jez thread has helped me not feel so alone!

I never buy natural hair wigs, the synthetic wigs are so good these days and much more comfortable. That said I wear my hair chin-length, natural hair is better for very long hair. A really good synthetic wig will still set you back around $500 in Australia. All good wigs are very expensive.

Basically you just get used to it. The itchiness is on a wig by wig basis actually, some are definitely itchier than others. I prefer synthetic hair because it’s cooler, and I now wear a wig with a monofilament top and a machine weft back, so it is more breathable: http://www.coveryourhair.com/blog/#article/4388

My best friend did the same thing.

Yeah, sometimes wearing a wig is annoying (when it’s sweltering hot outside and you’re basically wearing a warm hat) but there are actually a lot of benefits too — like I am intensely lazy and my chin-length synthetic wig means I can basically just brush and go. Don’t think I could ever go back to having to actually…

Yeah, more or less everyone who grows up in Australia has to learn to swim in primary school so it’s always surprising to me when I travel and learn loads of people can’t swim at all, even in tropical countries like Taiwan. Usually in Oz if someone says they can’t swim they mean they’re bad at it, not that they can’t…

Right, people always tell me I should have a different wig for every day of the week, but decent wigs are about AUD$500 a pop in Australia so that’s not gonna happen.

I’m so thankful to women like Zendaya who are normalising fake hair. I’m a white woman who wears a lace front wig due to severe trichlomania. It’s seriously amazingly how fascinated non-wig wearers are when they find out about it, and I think most of the white women I know would secretly love to wear a bunch of…

Yes. It’s absolutely true that we often unnecessarily infantilise white women, but it’s also true that there are many women (and men!) who live under the total control of an abusive spouse. Some of those abused people were already shitty people themselves. When I look at Laura Bush or 1990S Hillary Clinton saying…

Betty 😭

I’m an introvert and it reminded me of my face when I’m pretending to be a different person to survive a party with strangers.

Tactically, I agree, and I probably wouldn’t have punched him in this specific situation — but I’m not morally outraged about it and I’m not going to begrudge anyone the pleasure they get from watching it.

Kinja!

It’s not that I condone it, exactly, but it’s not going to keep me up at night.

From what I recall her middle school teacher said she had a severe learning disability that prevented her from understanding cause and effect. So it is entirely possible that a learning disability prevented her from understanding that her husband was going to kill a bunch of people.

Basically the Old Testament is violent vengeful sociopathic God and the New Testament is peace-loving forgiving chill hippy Jesus.

Sometimes it’s more complicated than knowing right from wrong and there are many different types of learning disabilities that could reduce her culpability. If she had trouble linking cause and effect she might not have understood that buying weapons and ammo was part of a plan to commit murder. Even if he told her…

Those people are the absolute worst.