Please, please, please tell me you had bits of experimental lace glued to your knees and forearms when you made this observation and had your epiphany???!!!

Seriously though, you make a point that rings true to me.
The thought of wearing a wig was so repellant to me that I went on using concealers for too many years which, when I look back made me look freakish.
It was like 70% concealer & 30% hair!!
But I had such a stigma ingrained in me about wearing a wig and what it said about me.
Even though my hair looked terrible, I seemed to find conciliation in the fact that it was still my own.

Once I started wearing and people started complimenting me on how much better I looked (without them actually realising it was the hair) I gradually changed my attitude.
But it took some time to eradicate my feeling of 'being fake'.
My attachments got better and I learned how to style it and work with it and my confidence grew and the compliments increased.

But if someone had told me this would happen BEFORE I started wearing, I don't think I would have believed them.
I got forced in to wearing to cover my transplants and in a way, I'm grateful for that, otherwise I'd still be wearing a hat.