My genetics have betrayed me.

[8crismon]

I discovered my first gray hair back in November. Today, I found two to three more silver hairs on my head. I showed them to my mother, and she told me that her mom, my grandma, started to go gray at 18. I hoped to take more after her father, my grandpa, who only had grey in his beard. However, I guess that only afforded me a chance against going grey, but stress and anxiety are unkind.

 

[Aspychata]

My grandmother had beautiful white hair. Early gray hair runs on my mom's Italian side of the family. But it's better than having some type of cancer or other bad health issues that are genetic. My grandmother use to tell me as a child, always be thankful for your vision, and good health.

 

[Judge]

With genetic traits being inherently both dominant and recessive, you can't rely on genetic consistencies.

Something no doubt folk singer age 78 Arlo Guthrie relishes. While he inherited his profession from his father, he didn't inherit the Huntington's Disease that killed Woody Guthrie at the age of 55.

 

[IXxTchxXI]

I've had white hair since I was 26 and love it

I hope I get salt pepper hair down the line, I am sure it will look beautiful on me

 

[lunarious]

Good vibe here

Aspychata: "My grandmother use to tell me as a child, always be thankful for your vision, and good health."

Mostly true.

 

[oregano]

I started to go bald at age 45 or so. Early male baldness isn't evident on either my mom's or dad's side. My dad died at 69 with a full head of white hair. My mom has no hair loss. Her father is the only one who went bald but he was very old and sick by then. I'm at the age where the internet shows me baldness medication, and I can't figure out why men would pay way too much money for a slim chance of staving off baldness. I wish that the billions spent on researching lifestyle meds for rich Westerners could have gone towards treatments for endemic diseases that harm far more people...but they are poor. Profit uber alles. Sigh.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I started getting grey hairs at 14. I was also diagnosed with osteoarthritis that year. At 50, my hair was all white, while my 75 year old father still had mostly black hair.

 

[tree]

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[Judge]

Charles Barkley: "No play for Mister Gray!"
Richard Gere: "ROTFLMAO!"

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

My hair is white almost transparent.

 

[Rodafina]

Gray is starting to take over my hair at 44. I'm happy, I've been waiting for this for awhile just because I like how gray hair looks.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

In The mirror my white hair looks like blonde to me. not sure why changed lights to day light, still looks blonde.

 

[SusanLR]

My dad had no grey hair when he passed at age 86. Beard was white.
Mom started getting silvers at age 25. It still was half white and half black when she passed at age 86.
I've been turning grey slowly since around age 45. I'm letting it grow out now at age 68. Always colored it with henna before. It doesn't look like it will be totally grey when the coloring grows out. Tired of coloring it and old enough to now accept it.