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Is it normal for you to have thinner hair close to your counterclockwise whorl.. ( the patch at the back of your head)
so is it normal or.. ??
That patch your talking about is called your crown and yes it's totally normal for your hair to be thinner there because it's pretty much the centre of where your hair grows from on your head.
Correct me if I'm wrong guys!
Neil
That's absolutely true. OTOH, it is also one of the first areas that male pattern baldness (MPB) starts from. I guess the problem is that as it's a naturally thin area anyway, you don't know necessarily that you have a problem until there's actually a bald patch there.
The other area where baldness begins is at the temples, which you can't really miss, being at the front on each side of the hairline, so I would say that if your crown seems thin but your hair isn't receding from your temples you probably don't have a problem.
Even having said that, most guys do get some mild version of MPB, but it doesn't proceed very far atall and they don't go bald. The usual rule of thumb is that guys who go bald normally have severely receding temples before age 30.
FWIW, my dad has had a bald patch at his crown since he was maybe 30, and still has hair on the rest of his head (he's almost 80).
I also used to know another guy with a bald patch at the crown who had belt length hair that he tied in a ponytail to disguise his bald patch, which at least made it less visible. He had no significant hair loss at the front either.
I hope this helps.
I am sure these English and Scot empirical observations are true, but from a philosophical point of view, I do not think there is any such thing as normal: there is average, median and mode, all measures of central tendancy, but even the outliers, those men who are bald at 20, and those who never lose any hair, are all normal.
Generally speaking, I am abnormal, in almost every way, but I do have a good front hairline at 73 y., but my thinning on the crown is more chaotic than some with a definite whorl, so one of the advantages of my long hair is that I have a believable comb over which disguises any thinness at all. How long? And then what? Well, I am thinking about that.
But in the meantime, beware "normal." It is a dangerous word.
C.
I never understood why anyone ever felt compelled to cut if they had hair loss. I think it shows less with long hair, especially if it's only slight.
What I want to know is whether it is normal for it to go clockwise in Australia. [wink]
Bill