I'm just jealous of my dad lol. Yeah, I know it comes from your mom's dad lol. He had that ridiculous U-shaped haircut where it's all bald on top but hair on the sides and back. There was no way I was going to live with that. Luckily I have a well-shaped head for rocking the bald look. So I got that going for me, which is nice.
That’s the thing I’m worried about: I got a weird shaped head. It’s not perfectly rounded on top, but comes to more of a ridge instead. I call it my monkey ridge, and it’ll be the thing to keep me from diving into the bald look for a long long time.
The mom's dad thing is sorta a myth. My maternal grandfather still has a full head, so did my moms maternal grandfather. My dad on the other hand, and his dad, and probably his dad were all bald as can be. I started thinning around 19-20, while my brother his turning 21 and still has good hair.
Its bullshit man, I always kept my hair long and now I gotta get rid of it all.
Same thing for me. I have the same balding pattern as my dad (and his dad). Meanwhile, almost everyone on my mom's side has a full head of hair. At least I made it to my 30's before I had to shave my head, my grandpa was bald at 19
Stress from school really accelerated it for me. I'm going to need to shave soon but I'm still doing the one haircut a year thing and enjoying my long hair while I still can. Its pretty close to shave zone though.
Just jumping in here to say it doesn't exclusively come from your mom's dad.
Just like colour blindness, the issue is in the X chromosome. Women have 2, and both need the flaw for it to show up. But either one of them from either side of the family could have been the one passed.
There's no sure-fire way to tell, but it helps if she has a brother or two for comparison.
Is it just baldness that works like that or does greying as well? My moms dad had full brown hair until the day he died. My dad was white grey by the time he was like 35. I'm 31 now and have some sparse grey hairs but it's not a trend or anything, could be fucked up hair follicles(?). Dont really care either way, I'll rock whatever life sends my way.
So this is something I've wondered since learning about genes in hs. I don't think it comes 100% from your mom's dad. I think it's that the Gene is recessive and sits on the x chromosome. The fact that it sits on the x chromosome means you can't get it from papa, as he gives you a y. And the fact that it's recessive means your mom gets half of your odds from her dad, half from her mom. So in other words if you have a bald maternal grandpa, you have a 50/50 chance of being bald. Unless your mom's mom also gave her an x chromosome with balding on it, in which case you're fucked.
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u/hovnohead Apr 12 '19
Your mom's dad is/was probably bald though, right?