"You don't see 5-year-olds who are bald. And people make fun of people who are different. That's just the way the world is," he says, matter-of-factly and without rancor. "But at the end of the day, I thought I was a lot of other things. I was big. I liked to talk. I was healthy. My parents told me over and over again that there was nothing wrong with me."