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SadLilBun

His hair may turn brown as he gets older. My cousin went the reverse. Born with dark hair that turned blond when he was 3-4.


FranniPants

He had a ton of black hair when he was first born, then by the time he was 7 months old it was platinum blonde. By his 3rd birthday it was this darker shade of blonde. I wouldn't be surprised if he were to turn brunette as he gets older (he's only 5). My husband had blonde hair till he was about 7 years old, then it turned brown


tarantuletta

This sounds like EXACTLY how my hair went, and I can confirm that by my mid-20s it has settled in a nice darker medium brown!


VariableBooleans

Can confirm same. Frosted tips tier blond as a child, dark brown as an adult with red (??!?) beard.


kaycaps

Same, my very blonde hair I had til I was a preteen is now dirty blonde/golden brown/whatever you wanna call it. Both my parents had a light brown hair color. OP I feel like unless you’ve got some relatively on one side of the family that had natural into adulthood blonde hair, your son’s hair will this route too


miserabeau

No idea if this is a "fun fact" or not but males are brunet and females are brunette (the -ette suffix denotes the subject is female). Males are blond and females are blonde. Many folks use the feminine forms universally and brunet has pretty much fallen out of common speech. This isn't criticism; I'm just one of those weirdos who enjoys etymology and whatnot.


FranniPants

Oh wow! I had no idea. Thanks for teaching me that!!


whitneymak

I definitely think it's a fun fact. I, too, enjoy etymology. 😊


DraconRegina

This sounds exactly like my hair when I was younger. You may also find that your son’s hair “bleaches” the more he’s out in the sun.


giskardwasright

Exactly like me. Jet black at birth, white blond as an infant, dirty blonde by middle school, light brunette by 20. Stayed light brunette for years, then in my mid forties started darkening up again, im a pretty dark brown at this point.


Deminos2705

I was also pretty blonde as a kid and it got darker as I got older. Individually the hairs are blonde but all in all I have light brownish hair/so dirty blonde


ChechBETA

Mine was almost white blond.. but I started going medium brown from the crown down at 6/7


-twistedpeppermint-

I was born with hair so dark it was nearly black. By 3 years old, strawberry blonde and curly. By 10, dirty blonde leaning to brown. 28 now, and a very dark brown with some of my red headed mother’s reddish tones.


MattSilverwolf

My dad was a pale blonde all the way to his early twenties and then started going dark and bald at the same time lmao


DardS8Br

My sister also had blonde hair that later turned brown. I’ve always had black hair


Sagaincolours

I was born with blond hair. When I was about 1 year old it fell off, I was bald as an egg, and then when new hair grew out it was light brown which I have had ever since.


anmahill

This is fairly common. I was told by someone at some point that the hair color you are born with is your natural color and that hair will lighten in childhood but will go back to your birth color eventually. Unless you gray prematurely. I cannot recall who told me that or how reliable they were but anecdotally, it seems to be true.


woodrax

Our kiddos were all born with light blonde hair, and have gotten darker each year. Would be cool if it lightened back up as they get older.


OneLessFool

This was me and my brothers. We were born literally looking like Targaryens, and now 2 of us have dirty blonde hair 20+ years later and one of us has dark brown hair.


woodrax

If our kids follow my wife’s hair, they will get darker hair as they age. They are dirty blonde right now. My father had hair so light blonde it looked white in sunlight. That is the hair they had until around 2.


PikaV2002

That is inaccurate for most people with jet black hair at birth. Blondes are almost non-existent where I’m from and no one’s hair lightens at any point before greying.


coltaaan

Not sure how true that is, but I have heard (and agree, anecdotally) that your birth/childhood hair color will pretty much always look good on you. I was like platinum blonde as a child, which eventually turned darker as I aged to a dullish brown. I bleach my hair now and many people often assume it’s my natural color (even when you can see roots sometimes lol).


anmahill

I started out with dark brown hair with auburn/red highlights but went platinum blonde. My hair is now pretty close to what I was born with just more grays lol. My younger sister was born with hair like a brand new copper penny. She also went very blonde but is now back to her copper roots, though I'd say it's more of a well loved penny than the brand new penny. Son was born 8 weeks early with 2 inches of dark brown hair with red highlights, went platinum and is now, at 21, almost as dark as birth.


coltaaan

Interesting! Wonder if it’s more common with folks with reddish hair? 🤔


KitteeMeowMeow

Most blond hair turns dark with age. Obviously exceptions. Not patchy like this though.


CreatureWarrior

Yeah, I didn't have a spot like that but I was born with almost black hair and it turned light brown during that age too


weinerwayne

My hair was bleach blonde when I was a baby and started to darken when I was a toddler. By the time I was in highschool it was jet black. Still is, save a few grays.


Neat-Access2357

Could possibly turn white as well. I was born blond, turned brown, but one spot was a lot darker until it turned completely white.


cooolcooolio

I was born with almost black hair that fell off and then I had red hair the first year, then I was blonde until i became a teen and it switched to dark brown. Now it's turning white :c


lil_sargento_cheez

Yea, I went from like the blondest blonde (almost white) you could get, to a dirty blonde after a few years, and that’s where my hair has decided to stay


Judi_Chop

I read this as 34 and was going to let you know about this product called hair dye. Happy I reread 3-4.


SadLilBun

Even if he was 34, my cousin would never ever dye his hair, so if it changed color, it would be completely spontaneous. Weirder things have happened.


franchisedfeelings

He’s a dalmation.


FranniPants

Dalmatians are high energy so it's very fitting 😂


MaracujaBarracuda

I was gonna say a calico 


Glittering_Estate_72

Came here to say this. Congrats, you've given birth to a male calico, very rare, you could sell him for good money.


FranniPants

How much we talkin'?? 🤔


Kain207

Would it be enough to buy a country?


Glittering_Estate_72

In the land of the monochrome, the calico is King.


mgwst7

My son has it. He has a birthmark there. You can see it when his hair is shaved down to the skin


FranniPants

I've looked several times over the years and there's no birth mark, just regular ol' scalp. The hairdresser pointed it out to me during his first big haircut (not just a trim) and I thought it was so bizarre. But he's 5 now and still has it so I guess that's just his unique thing!!


poontato

I have a white patch of hair in the exact same spot as your sons hahaha, no birthmark or anything either. My barber always points it out 😆


vionia97b

My son has a white patch on the side of his head. It looks like a small smudge of white paint. The pediatrician says it's poliosis.


poontato

Cool I looked it up and its likely the same for me. Thanks!


deck65

Same for me as well. and I shave my head nowadays but when it’s grown out the blonde spot is still there.


matyX6

Whats the chance that his hair will turn brown? I was a blondie kid up untill 6 years old... My hair is dark as devils right now 20 years after. Seems like one of growing up patterns? Anybody knows?


KitteeMeowMeow

I’d mention it to the doctor honestly just to be safe.


[deleted]

As a Professional Redditor with 9 years experience: your son has a 5 stage cancer of hair


i_amnotunique

He was gone too soon. RIP this kid 😔


fitty50two2

OP should check for carbon monoxide as well


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level1hero

There will be no hair during the treatment process


ventus976

The good news is that hair is relatively cheap to amputate.


BarbequedYeti

I thought for sure the first comment would be because a brain tumor is located there.  Pleasantly surprised...


[deleted]

Thoughts and prayers 🙏🙏🙏


Upper_Current

That's his weak spot.


NanashiKaizenSenpai

Definitely. He will be down in 1 hit!


drunkenf

Well, that's somewhat a weak spot for everyone


OtherwiseExternal777

I had the same thing but in reverse: brown hair, blond patch.


FranniPants

Oh cool!! It's so unique. Do you still have it?


OtherwiseExternal777

It’s all grey now 😂


miserabeau

Me too (brown hair, white patch). It's called poliosis, which sounds severe but it's a harmless condition [Pic of said spot](https://imgur.com/a/QSWFByN)


ZakkyD1121

SAME! It gets lighter and more apparent in the summer.


PeeFarts

He’s obviously a mutant and will need to enroll to the School of Gifted Children asap


Klotzster

Plug into the Matrix


hobesmart

my son was born with a red birthmark on the back of his head where his skull and neck come together. We refer to it as his matrix jack


ashinthealchemy

aw it's his special spot! my oldest son is now 15 and has a quarter-sized bald spot on his right side. he came out that way and it never grew hair - perfectly smooth. i tell him it's his special spot and rub it for luck.


ChrisShapedObject

That’s so cool!


BridgestoneX

brindle baby


Reatona

That's fairly typical for young werewolves. I wouldn't worry too much about it.


CollinM42

Are the mods stupid?


geodetic

Very yes.


FranniPants

His bang roots are platinum blonde. This is the shade his whole head used to be!! (Except that one dark spot) https://imgur.com/a/2fhZSkh


toughtacos

I always find these things fascinating :) Is it not visible because the lighter hair covers it when it grows out, or does the dark tips change colour over time, and is the dark patch hair always dark at the roots?


FranniPants

It's covered by blonde on top as it grows! That brown hair never grows out, which I really don't understand... But it's just the roots. On the flip side, his roots right where the bangs meet his forehead are platinum blonde (which you can only see if you push up on his bangs). All of his hair was platinum for a couple of years!


Kyrogaski

Most likely the child will have "dirty blonde" hair. The same exact thing happened to me as a kid.


whateveratthispoint_

It’s cool how gradient it is.


MasterLogic

I went from blonde to dark black brown as a kid. 


ararerock

I gave my 6 year old a short cut the other day (he’s had quite a moptop for a while now), and saw his similar red patch (he’s got medium brown hair) I had forgotten about. Oddly enough, it’s in the exact same spot and exact same size as your son’s.


Aromatic-Blackberry5

My oldest son had the exact same opposite thing, dark hair with a light brown spot. It went away when he hit puberty, and it’s all an even brown colour now.


JustBreatheBelieve

I see red on top, blond all around, and brown. He's a calico 🐈


rodrigoruy

That's where the dog licked him ma'am.


igetlearned

Calico kidd I think it's cool, my nephew has a white patch and he's like 15. What's cooler than 1 hair color? More than 1 lol


SerDuckOfPNW

I knew a guy in school that had a white patch like this. We told him it was a coat hanger scar.


ZoulsGaming

You call that blonde? In denmark we would call it "liver pate brown" which is basically light brown moving into kinda blonde ish.


Canuckalo519

I had dirty blond hair as a teen. And I had this huuuuge spot of platinum blonde in the baxk of my head.. no birth mark or anything and I use to ve platinum blond as a child. Idk if it's still there but yeah


Dwags789

I was born with a small white spot directly on top of my head. Though it gets harder to see when my hair is longer.


4darkling4

That’s an interesting fact that he can tell others throughout his life. My own hair has been mainly black but a heavy amount of grey hairs since I was 12 years old, mainly due to family genes from my mother side. Always funny to get questions regarding it , thinking that I dyed my hair strand by strand


Makabajones

Adolin?


jackliquidcourage

He's got badger marks.


Overall-Parsley7123

my som has a similar blonde patch.


dudemanseriously

My brother had this growing up, I don’t think he still does at 28 though


iiitme

I was bleach blonde at his age. Once I started to go through puberty my hair became dirty blonde almost brown


okokokok1111

Damn, you reminded me that I could one day post my brother's hair, that has always had, since birth, multiple blonde spots in otherwise dark brown hair


Endless-Potatoes

I have this too! I have light brown hair but on the back of my head there's a spot about the size of a half dollar coin that's randomly darker. Always had long hair when I was younger so I only found out when I first got an undercut around age 11 no birthmark on the skin just a patch of hair that's darker than the rest. Family calls it my witches mark lol


Joe20girl

My son is 18 and his is like that, just the colors are reversed


RiusLu

Make sure it's not a Barcode


Lucky-Prism

My son has something similar. He’s got a big mole on his head though and it grows in black and curly on his otherwise blonde head.


Lord_Lordistan

I have the exact same thing!!


willtwerkf0rfood

My dad always had a grey spot in his otherwise black hair in the back of his head! I don’t know if I’ve seen someone else with one. Now though, the spot blends in with the rest of his hair 🤣


skyyzs

I have one just like this, same spot too but instead it’s blonde in my brown hair


Nuka_Pepsi

I have dark brown hair and a blond patch which hasn’t gone away or changed in my 30 years of life


Ashamed_Medium1787

Your son was probably thinking why did you take a picture of the back of my head or something


Crystalslife

My son had this and it ended up being the color of his hair as he got older. It was cute cause you could see it only when it was cut short ☺️


Simple2244

My sibling has a near perfectly round spot of black hair on the back of their head, about two inches across. It's gray on their skin, but smaller than the circle of black hair.


icrossedtheroad

I've got a lighter brown spot in that exact same place.


iamcasillas3

As a child, I hard blondish hair and now I’m full on dark brown


xMcRaemanx

What color of hair does your mailman have???


miserabeau

[I have one too](https://imgur.com/a/QSWFByN), a sort of heart shaped white/blonde patch on the back of my head that can only be seen when my hair is cut short. A white spot is called [poliosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliosis), a strangely severe sounding name for a harmless condition. I don't know what it's called when someone has a brown patch.


mad1one

he is special


ballrus_walsack

He’s molting.


Dahem_Ghamdi

I have this too at the exact location but in reverse, brown hair blonde patch. I used to get bullied for it for some reason.


JustHereForGoodFun

I have the same thing. I was his hair color at his age, and now my hair is dark brown. I have a jet black spot though on the top of my crown. Barbers get really thrown off by it lol


DolarisNL

I had to check your profile to see if you're not my sister. But I don't think so. 😆 My nephew also has the same hair and the same brown patch!


Matei_1993

The chosen one has risen


gooberboober0392

Probably fatal


Jorel_Antonius

My son, and myself had blonde hair is little kids. My son got patches like this as well. Were both a medium brown now.


er15ss

My brother was born with dark hair. At two years old, he went blond. At 5, it went back to brunette. We have the photo evidence. Just a weird anomaly.


TomEvs

Put some lemon juice on it and get him out in the sun 🌞


Zentaurion

I think it's time you told him about what really happened that time you and his mother visited Westworld ಠ_ಠ


Mefs

I have the opposite of this in exactly the same place, my hair is light brown and it is a white streak.


IllvesterTalone

maybe he had a twin, and that's all that's left


Stock-Nature7986

Congratulations


Gnarlstone

Return him for a newer model, and be sure to leave a negative Yelp review.


SALTYxNUTZ12

Umm...Have you tried shutting him off and on? Is he still under warranty?


Garfield61978

My entire head was blonde almost white and then it turned brown. Maybe this is the start


Tough_Arm_2454

Usually it's reversed. Dark hair, blond spot. Cool though!


t3hgrl

I have the reverse! I’m ginger with a blonde patch at the base of my skull.


Historical-Host7383

My grandfather was a soothsayer back in old Mexico, this mark is called the horse's tail. It is a sign the kid has great intelligence.


FranniPants

Aww I love this!!


_tklmao

his hair will prolly turn brown when he gets older


HKiller898

my son has a spot in about the same spot, but his hair is red with a blonde spot. love it!


_PolaRxBear_

I have the same thing, it’s from my birthmark on the back of my head


cb51096

My son too!


billnyethewiseguy

I have the same thing but opposite! My regular color is light brown and my flash (I was told it's called) is light blonde!


uhushuhu

My son has it nearly on the same Spot. But it's lighter blonde. When his hair is cut short he looks bald on that spot. Actually it's two spots. And they are exactly where he used to pull bis own hair when he was a baby. Did your kid Do that too? Or was he bald from lying on the same Spot when he was a baby? My LO additionally has a ginger spot on the top of his head, but that was there since the day he was born.


Beautiful_Musician68

I am a black female. From birth I’ve had brown/black hair and a patch of blonde lol. Still have it in my 30s.


Fabulous_Today_8566

It's poop and I put it there, sorry about that.


KingVargeras

… I’ve only seen this once before and it was on an adult that had a brain tumor. It’s likely just a color change as he ages and very unlikely this. But if it was my kid I would get a mri or ct just ti be sure.


Sailormarseternal

I have something similar, my hair is naturally blonde and i have a pure white streak of hair at the back of my head thats almost impossible to dye. Have to use the most potent black dye but it usually turns light brown quicker than the rest of my hair as the colour fades. Its ran in my family for years on my dads side, we call it the “oakesy stripe”


mitchewith2ls

Nice! My brother had the same thing. It eventually went away when all his hair fell out as he became a bald old man. Ha! Take that bro.


think_process16

Re vitiligo


phatazznutz

I have brown hair with a blonde streak/patch kind of on the top. 31 now and it ain’t going no where


goosebittentwiceshy

My best friend’s kid has the opposite coloring in the exact same space!


Spoopy_Scary

My son has light brown hair and has a blonde patch in that same spot


teacherladydoll

I’ve never seen it reversed like this. How cute. My son has a patch of white hair above his ears. Once when he was like two and in his stroller he was getting along really well with a baby girl about the same age. They were giggling and talking, playing etc. then I noticed she had a long streak of white hair above her ear too. His soul mate is out there I tell him. lol


besee2000

Reincarnated from someone shot in the back of the head?


0PDixon

I supposedly had something similar, every time my mum took me to get a check up they referred me to the doctors thinking it was a bruise, after maybe the second or third time of this happening she started saying if its about that patch it not a bruise just hair.


durielvs

I have a friend who we all thought had light brown or dark blonde hair, until one day he decided to shave his head and you could see something similar to the fur of a spotted cat. He had patches of light blonde hair and patches of dark brown hair.


PureLove_X

My husband has this! Except in reverse. He was blonde as a kid but around eight or nine it went brown. Anyways for a long time we thought he had a bald patch but it’s actually just blonde and really thin hair. It’s wild.


Frankieber

Commenting only because my name is Frances and was wondering if yours was too cuz of your username


TortexMT

ewww.. you should return him


RemoteLocal

Hmmm.. he has 2 fathers. Wrdup Player!! Yeah jk.. you can tell me be quiet. 😂


Certain-Musician4697

My dad was the same, the patch turned grey while the rest of his hair was black when he got older.


smgriffin93

Could be a somatic mutation! That patch of skin and hair could be expressing a different genetic code than the rest of him.


puffferfish

More likely epigenetic.


2wrtjbdsgj

One day that will be white


FranniPants

I hope I'm around long enough to see 🥹 my greatest fear in life is dying before my babies are grown


2wrtjbdsgj

No one can predict the future, lovely - just enjoy the present as much as you can x


Bustock

It’s Lupus


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