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Am I attractive (pics included)?

I cannot stand how I look, to the point where I have never had a girlfriend, never dated anyone for more than 3-4 weeks (I always broke up with them), and have pretty much relegate myself to being alone. None of the girls I dated were much in the way of looks, intelligence, or personality anyway, which has led me to believe I can't get an attractive girl...the ones I dated seemed like they'd date anyone without a felony on their record. There really isn't much, if anything, anyone can do to make me feel better about my looks...in fact, I tend to resent the rare compliment I get and I don't want to date a girl who finds someone like me attractive. I don't want to date girls who love a big bald guy. For the record, I am 33 yrs old, 6'3", 252 lbs. I started losing my hair at 17 and am now pretty much bald, and I'm not one of those guys susceptible to the "bald can be attractive" belief. I resent my height and build and hate being bald...especially because, at best, it's seen as uber-masculine in some sort of "mature" way. I think big bald men look stupid. Worse, I get most commonly seen as a football player, which makes me feel awful since football players are usually seen as big tough guys. I just wonder if anyone knows what I can do to deal with this. I think about it all the time and then I get depressed when I realize that there isn't really a way to make myself look good. I envy attractive people all the time and feel like I am pretty much left out of most things. I'm posting a link to pictures just to show what I'm talking about...I don't think I'm hideously ugly, but I sure am not attractive. And since everyone asks, the animal in my lap is an opossum...a friend of mine does wildlife rehab and was trying to get it ready to go back into the wild. It had been someone's pet and they overfed it, hence it looking weirder than usual. http://s385.photobucket.com/home/curseofdolkite/index

Public Comments

1. Sigh, I see you have started to put this on here AGAIN
2. your problem is you own a freaking opossum
3. In the picture with the opossum, you look like a nice guy. In the black & white picture, you look like a dolt. (Hey, you wanted an honest opinion, right.) So my advice is don't look like a dolt any more than you have to. It seems to me like you are wearing the cap to hide the fact that there's no hair underneath it. You look self-conscious in that picture, because you're trying too hard to pose. In the other picture, you're not posing. You just look like a nice guy with an opposum. In short, the more you worry about it, the worse your perceived problem gets. So stop worrying about it. Girls like sensitive guys who do things like nurse sick animals back to health. So concentrate on that, and stop worrying about whether you're bald. Honestly, I didn't really notice it (except in the black and white picture, where it was obvious because you were so obviously going out of your way to hide it.)
4. You're not unattractive just an average guy but somebody has to be shallow if they only base your value of a person on his attractive level .... so get confident because that's always a plus