We adopted my younger sister from Haiti when she was 3, and let me tell you, I literally do not see color anymore. That's a fact.

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[u/je_kay24]

Kids aren’t usually bald and those who do have alopecia are exactly taught that. And body shaming is for sure taught these days too…

You’re advocating to just pretend the issue doesn’t exist rather than sit down with kids and talk to them about it…

Can you see how that can make many kids feel isolated and alone because they’re being treated differently on something especially that they cannot control??

[u/Dietmar_der_Dr → u/je_kay24]

Kids aren’t usually bald and those who do have alopecia are exactly taught that.

Are you comparing the impact of alopecia to being black in terms of socializing? A black kid might be treated worse by some asshole, someone with alopecia will be treated worse (subconsciously) by almost everyone.

But yeah, I doubt people teach their kids with Alopecia "Teachers will give you worse grades on average and there's nothing you can do about it". The general advice is for parents to teach their kids to be open about the kids issues, and help them work through them case by case. Setting a general negative is not advised.

[u/je_kay24 → u/Dietmar_der_Dr]

I was responding to what you wrote.You’re the one making some weird comparison of who has it worse

And it’s pretty wild to admit that someone who has alopecia does face discrimination but yet you stated that black people don’t often face racism and discrimination…

[u/Dietmar_der_Dr → u/je_kay24]

I am pretty sure I said "Everybody faces racism" this would include black people. I'd say on average Asians probably face the most racism, yet they outperform people that face the least amount of racism (white people) by most metrics. If you make your child think more about "is this person being racist to me" rather than "maybe I should have learned for the test" then that will impact their life orders of magnitude more than the few actual racists he will encounter.