24 years old male with growing barely a beard

Medical Q&A [Moderated]
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Hello Everyone,
Im 24 years old male with having a barely beard. Since I can’t grow a beard except regions on my chins and mustache where I have tiny pale hairs since puberty, I got tested for my testosterone and learned that it is in normal ranges even if it is close to lower bound of it.
Not to growing a beard makes me stressed and feel like a special snowflake in a bad manner as I see my peers. My family tree has no background of not growing a beard. Is it completely normal , should I got tested for more or would you recommend me to accept this as normal and go on living my life

Regards

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If there is concern for a generalized lack of secondary male sex characteristics, further endocrinological / genetic testing may be necessary through your physician. If, however, other secondary sex characteristics have developed normally, this is likely not an issue.

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Thank you very much for the answer doc.
Would you recommend someone ,who is in the situation I have stated , using substances inducing growth of hair (e.g minoxidil ). Or else do you think it is likely to cause more harm since we don’t try to identify the main problem that cause this

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I don’t know that there is necessarily a “problem” here at all, to be honest, but if someone wanted to use topical agents like minoxidil for hair growth, that is typically safe.

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Yes, there were men in my family who never grew facial hair or armpits. But their testosterone was always normal. It’s a genetic trait, I think.