How old were you when you first started to pull?

I was 12 when I started.

I was 11 or 12. My parents had just gotten divorced then too....

I remember when I was fairly young I noticed how "smooth" pulling out the hair on my knees felt. It didn't go far after that because I couldn't find the hairs that would do that very easily.

Then I remember a time on the school bus in 3rd grade (so that makes me 9), for some reason I grabbed my eyelashes between my fingers and pulled on them -- maybe because of irritation or something. I got none to a few eyelashes each time I did that. After that, I found myself in front of the mirror pulling out eyelashes by hand and with tweezers. A whole bunch of my family noticed, plus my teacher, so I got embarrassed and stopped pulling entirely.

I can't say exactly when, but in the later years I started pulling out the hair on my fingers, mainly, but other body areas, too. Around 17 it was my patchy beard until it started growing more evenly, then just some smaller spots (one cheek, corners of mouth, ...).

Now I'm 22 and my fingers and toes are bald, and some annoying irritation has made me go for my eyebrows, resulting in a few blank patches.

Different ages for different areas, I guess It's a bothersome life we lead...

I don't know. It's just something I do absentmindedly or when I'm very anxious. I've been rubbing my edges on my scalp since forever...but i think pulling started junior/senior year of high school when I was caught up in a maelstrom of eating disorders and addiction.

I was six. I'm tired of it - pls inbox me for any suggestions or help.

8-9 lol

I started with the hair on my head when i was 12 and thought it was just something weird I did. It's been 7 years and now I focus on my pubic hair and the ingrown hairs on my legs. I didn't realize it was a disorder until I convinced myself to look it up yesterday.

I was around 9 too when I started pulling my eyebrows and eyelashes out.
And then I was 19 when it transferred to my hair instead.

I was 5 when it was first noticed by my family. I came home and got in trouble because my mom thought i had been cutting on my hair, there was a huge bald spot on the back of my head. I swore I had not cut it, and I had not really noticed that I'd been pulling my hair. Then later on after I was sitting in my room taking my punishment for cutting my hair and lying about it, Mom caught me pulling my hair. That's when she figured out that I was telling the truth, I hadn't cut my hair, I'd pulled it out at the roots. I'm almost 40 now, and I don't pull like I used to, but I still catch myself pulling.

I was 3 when I started