How do I deal with comments on my weight and (lack of) hair?
Hey so I (24M) am a uni student with people who are generally 2-3 years younger than me since I had to take some time off but I'm back at it. I started losing hair at 16 and have a patch of dry grass on my head lmao. Used to bother me a lot but I got over it because there's bigger fish to fry. I've also gained almost 40 pounds in the past year thanks to antidepressants + other mental health meds and stress eating. To put it simply, I look like a recently divorced 45 year old dude who is NOT Taking it well.
I'm generally very IDGAF around most of my friends and peers so they're quite forthright to comment on how I look. So many people have commented about how I look significantly older than my age. I told someone earlier casually I'm not looking to date and they replied with "it's not like you could anyways", earlier someone told me they genuinely thought I was closer to 30 than 20. What broke the camel's back was today me and a couple of people were just chilling after an exam and this guy said "You dress really well, you'd look good if you just lost weight, hit the gym and got a hair transplant."
I stopped caring about how I look a long time ago. My strengths definitely lie in my cognitive capacity rather than aesthetic. I play it cool or laugh it off but people reiterating how I'm bottom of the barrel in the looks department does suck. So I'd love any input to just not give a shyt about what people say on that or detach from the comments.
TLDR: I'm a practically bald and fat 24 year old guy who is aging like milk and it gets brought up a bit too often. Feel shytty, but enough to care and need advice how to just write it off and be unbothered.
This Duck Tails breh?
shouldn't be that hard to lose weight at 24 I wouldn't think
