Aaaaaaaaaah White hair!

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<p>I was just looking in the mirror and I noticed a White hair strand!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>OMG and I'm only a Freshmen.</p>

<p>Is there anything I could do to stop making my hair turn white ? I know this is entirely immature and materialistic...but still.</p>

<p>OMG I'm gonna look like Taylor Hicks by the time I graduate high school.</p>

<p>People are gonna think I'm old (I already have a moustache and a beard visibly developing)</p>

<p>How can I stop the damn aging process that usually occurs when people are like 40 ?</p>

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<p>It can be brought on by stress, so...</p>

<p>relax and take a break?</p>

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<p>Can't...AP Season and SAT IIs. Is the process irreversible, like if I do nothing over summer....</p>

<p>OK I've never gotten below 100 in US Gov...so the AP test will be a piece of cake and statistically speaking everyone who has my Bio teacher has scored above 770 in SAT IIs... So I'm good.</p>

<p>Argh...Only yesterday I bragged about how I don't care about materialism</p>

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<p>I have two friends who clearly have many strands of gray hair. Both since freshman year. Start dieing. My dad went gray in his 20s. It's sad.</p>

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<p>A lot of people get a gray hair now and then when they're young, but it's only temporary. Others actually do start graying when they're young. More likely you fall into the former.</p>

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<p>Weird thing my hair is jet black otherwise (no grays). This is the first time I noticed any whites (I did notice one yesterday...but that was only light reflection).</p>

<p>Ok I've calmed down now. I've come to my senses and just realised how stupid this thread is.</p>

<p>Sorry...and Thanks.</p>

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<p>I have a question 2 weeks ago, a friend of mine told me how she spotted brown and blond hairs (true story) on the back. Is the sequence for graying hair <em>black - brown - gray -white</em> ?</p>

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<p>My mom calls it grandma's blessing. Stress usually increases the progression of white hair. Just chill.</p>

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<p>I don't have gray hair but I seem to be losing hair.</p>

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<p>some people are naturally born with a strand or two of gray hair</p>

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People are gonna think I'm old (I already have a moustache and a beard visibly developing)

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<p>And I though that you were a she(:))</p>

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<p>It's Ok Abhi, Milki isn't traditionally a name that invokes the image of a Male (Thanks a lot mother!). I don't care about the white hair, I mean Taylor Hicks was kind of cool (I just read on Wikipedia that he started graying at 13).</p>

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<p>It's usually because of a lack of vitamin or overstress</p>

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<p>During the first 30 minutes of the panic attack, I read online that it was a result of Copper in the diet but it usually occurs in people 40+ (although a substantially number of teens are developing gray hair by their teens - Thank You Wikipedia).</p>

<p>Overstress might be the answer, but I've been chilling for the past week. I haven't done any of my homework or even opened an AP book.</p>

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<p>i know a guy who started graying in 7th grade</p>

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<p>I know a guy friend of my sister who is 24 and has lost most of his hair and the rest is a lot paler then it used to be</p>

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<p>Its mostly genetic.</p>

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<p>I read that too but my parents' hair just started graying.</p>

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<p>I just got my first gray hair this week too, apparently. What a coincidence.
Quarter-life-crisis time!</p>

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<p>My Dad's side of the family seems to have a hereditary hair-whitening thing going on. My dad's hair began to go white at age 15. My elder brother, now 18, has white hair already growing on his temples (the place that goes white during the very end). It's really nothing a little dye can't fix.
Thankfully, I take after my mom more. So I can expect my hair to become white at around 50ish.</p>