random clumps of knots in small sections of hair

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Ok, naturally a picture is worth a thousand words in this case, but, you know...

So I am being plagued with these small thin locked sections, with knotty parts forming in the middle or near the tips. I am trying to keep palmrolling NOW, because, you see, I was getting these "beetles" atthetips before (flat mess of knottyness, often huge chunks!), but these beetles kept falling out! Im worried aboutlosing my whole locks of hairs now and I just...why is it doing this!?? Like, hair is stick straight throughout the rest of the section, but really compactly knotted in these random spots. I thought, yay knots! But i just dont wantto hold my breath again. Is this another wasted post...or can someone make sense of it and send some advice or encouraging words? or discouraging words? Idk!

[LeRemy]

I have these too, I think it's a sure sign that your hair is beginning to dread. Just let these be and they will balance out from the flatness and be round after a while..

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You would think, right!? Well, ok, let's just wait and see what happens. And if they all fall out,.... ok, sorry, not going to think negatively.

[james]

It's not going to fall out if it's starting to build upon knots. Hey look my hair looked like this after two years of dreading.

And stuff like this happened.

And they look a bit like this now, and just letting it do its thing got there.

( sorry photographed my computer screen to find pics)
It will all be ok.

[Deleted]

Am i blind or? Cuz i dont see anything wrong in these pictures but...maybe i just see what i want to see? Or maybe we think things are worse on ourselves

No, but James, you are bless3d with full think hair. Mine are just stringy things. I have thin strand with huge clumps at the bottom. And also, lol, I think one of my dreads is actually formed from like two separate pieces of hair. I swear, at one point it looked like a clear gap was there except it was somehow holding together. Hahaha omg! So..idk. its just I HAVE heard of folks having dreads fall out and I fear it! I...idk. why do I always have to cry over everything (metaphorically)...just...it's hard to compare...I'm honestly so jealous of yours you know, a schoolmate once was saying how thin my hair was (she had like your hair) and i was like, at least i can brush mine or something. Omg! Clearly that backfired and/or i still really wanted that hair. Idk! Ok, ok, but I've gotta just... (shut up and have patience^^)



*stringy things yeah so like divide your single dread there into at least 5 parts and you get what I've got lol I mean, I wanted mine thin, but...idk.

lol why is this suddenly ridiculously amusing! Haha ohhh boy!

[james]

Well the first pic is after two years. I didn't want to post all the crappy pics leading to that mess. But my point was it didn't look good. I really feel you shouldn't worry. Dreads happen if you don't comb your hair but also if you don't worry too.
Sometimes I think of getting a Mohawk, I 'm sick of thinking about something I don't think about if that makes no sense it doesn't to me either.

[alethionaut]

After 18 months I have some thin ones and thick ones and clumpy ones and a few that are "normal" hair all the way down to a big fat clump at the end. I lost one that was literally a few strands of hair together, but it's growing back