Hi,

I am from Portugal and I have AA since I was 11. I am now 31 and I wear a wig
since I was 13. I now deal well with the disease, although it prevents me from
doing some things like going to the beach with my friends. I live with my
boyfriend and I want to have children soon, but I am very afraid that they will
have AA. I think that I just could not deal with it. By one side my boyfriend
has had a depression last year, it was really very bad, and I am always afraid
that it will happen again on a stressfull situation like that would be. By
another way, I would blame myself for my children to have the disease, for not
looking as cute as the other kids and for going through all the difficulties
that I went, particularly in school where I was made fun by people who would
notice that first I had some bald spots and then that I was wearing a wig. Also
I think about myself, about how nowdays people don't notice anymore that I wear
a wig, and that they would start noticing it when they looked at my children and
that they would blame me and not want their kids to play with mine because they
were afraid that they would "catch" the disease and feel sorry for my children
and all that, you know?

So, I don't know what to do and Iam very sad because I really want to have
children. Can you tell me if you have AA and children, if they also have it? I
think that the genetics of the disease is not well know, and so it is a matter
of chance, but that we have a much higher probability to have children with the
disease than "healthy" people, no?

Thanks for your support,

Ana