hair loss is now a disability

Okay... even I can see that, hair loss, by itself is not a disability - but, where the ice can get really thin is over the cause of the hair loss.

Hair loss can be age related, a symptom of an illness like alopecia, a symptom of progeria or a result of medical treatment like chemotherapy. For some of these people, "hair loss" does need to be seen as a symptom of a disability.

Some of these people won't live to see their legal age of majority... others may find it impossible to work while getting treatment for their cancer. While some people can work through chemotherapy, it makes other people feel really ill in the way that it upsets their stomach and makes them feel cold all the time.

I also feel that the "stand up" era of comedy is well and truly over by now, too. For the most part, we understand that it's inappropriate to be poking fun at people who are black or have very noticeable disabilities... so, maybe we shouldn't be poking fun at anyone based on their appearance. The guy obviously didn't know that Jada had alopecia - and there may have been more than a slap given if she had cancer or something that tends to have a bad prognosis.

Not a disability but it would definitely change your life if you were a woman. Tbh if you were a guy and you lost your eyebrows it would effect your life to a large degree also.

Your first mistake was logging onto Twitter. Log off and return to sanity.

Disabling in its link to serious depression; damage to self worth, and sense of self.
Accompanied by the fact you're ravaged by a serious health condition, essentially turning the body against itself.

It can be devastating, deeply emotional for either gender. But especially women. That's why conditions such as Alopecia must be handled with the utmost sensitivity, as you'd address any other ailment.

For many, it is tied to their sense of identity as a gender.
Not to mention a medium through which you once expressed yourself, and your individual style.
It is a basic sense of pride and beauty we all are entitled too.

Not unlike those who've made the heartrending decision for full mastectomy in breast cancer cases. And the self image issues that can accompany them.

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I'm disabled!

I'm going down to my local Social Security office to get some of those sweet sweet disability payments!

Chris Rock used to be funny, or maybe the person who wrote his stuff has retired.

Lmao. Made me laugh.

How silly is that!

Hair loss is not a disability...and as my bald patch gets steadily bigger I will never consider it to be.
But I can see why it may be a problem for a woman.

Well if hair has anything to do with how the brain works, something like this may be true, but, I wouldn't call it disability either.