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when you hate your sister who you love just because she has clear beautiful skin
When you see someone with clear skin get a pimple and you feel extremely happy
when you see someone worse then you and you feel better
when you see a proactive commercial and change the channel so that you dont feel embarrased
when you practically run by the kiosk in the mall for proactiv
when you think that the guy you like will never be into you
when you have to encourage yourself in front of the mirror everyday to go to skewl
when you refuse to go to thanksgiving with your family becuz you dont want them to see your face
when you dread the next day cuz you know its going to be hell
when you take two hours on your makeup
when you check your face every ten minutes
when you drink milk and feel like you just commited a crime
when you look at older pics of yourself becuz you had clear skin then
Reading this thread is depressing since I can relate to pretty much all of these. At the same time it's also kind of comforting since I know I'm not alone.. I'm going to post some that relate to me, though I'm sure many of them have been said already.
when the first thing you do when you wake up is check up on your acne..
when your bathroom sink has a whole lot of acne medicine..
when you walk fast in the hallways in the hopes that less people will see you that way..
when you never make eye contact, even with good friends..
when you see you acne in school mirrors and it the fluorescent light makes your acne look worse than when you see it at home (my house bathroom has those yellowish light bulbs which makes my skin look a lot better, to bad it's not like that in school)..
when you try to show people the side of your face with less acne..
when it doesn't matter which side of your face you show since both sides have terrible acne..
when you also have your head down in class to hide the acne..
when you feel your acne is holding you back from being more social..
when you're jealous of people less attractive because they have clear skin..
when you don't flirt because of your acne..
when in groups you don't say much so nobody looks at you..
when talking with someone else you are always looking away, hiding your face..
when you try cheering yourself by thinking how your still good looking, just with severe acne, and it doesn't help...
when people tell you your handsome/good looking but it doesn't matter because your self esteem is so low you can only think about had bad your acne is or how you'd look even better if you didn't have acne..
when you wish class would hurry up and end so you can go home and hide your face..
when you get home you immediately check the mirror to see how your acne looks..
when you see that your acne looked worse than in the morning..
when you take 2 showers a day only because you think it'll help against your acne and not so much just to be clean..
when you don't go to the store and stay home since that way nobody has to see your face.
when you don't go to the barber shop so the barber doesn't see your face and you don't have to look in a mirror for so long..
when you PIH marks looks as bad as your severe acne..
when you don't take photos of youself anymore..
when you look back at old photos and note how you didn't have acne..
when you can't even remember when you didn't have sever acne..
when you don't want to visit old friends during the summer because they've never seen you with acne..
when your parents tell you that you should really see a dermatologist..
when you're embarrassed in front of your dermatologist..
when you think you're ugly because of your acne..
when you check yourself in the mirror every 2 seconds to see if your acne has gotten any better..
when you look in the mirror you check how your acne looks at different distance, ranging from a couple feet to half an inch away..
when your acne and PIH marks from a couple feet away looks like one big splotch of red or brownish and almost black..
when the last thing you do before you go to bed is check out the mirror..
when you sleep on your back because you heard sleeping on your side is bad..
when you wake up and you know this entire cycle will repeat again...
when you join acne.org..
when even after writing an extensive "you know its bad list" you could probably still think of a hundred more..
On the bright side my acne is better than in was a month or so ago. I'm going to meet up with my dermatologist again in a couple weeks, hopefully he will give me something which will help me out even more.
when randomly your friend asks you what comes to you mind when you hear his/her name? and then you ask her the same question she answers= ACNE FML
when you are on your way home ,on train and when you look at the people around you have perfectly fine skin and your the only one who have acne, scarring and some other stuff going on your face.
whennnnnnnnnnnn....
the cops run into your house and arrest you on a warrant and you are only worried about the humiliation of clearasil all over your face versus going to jail...and then beggin the officer to wipe it off so the people in jail dont make fun of you
you have 180 days over your head but are still willing to do the time for probation violation by shoving clean and clear down your pockets
when your eyebrows have taken up half your face but you refuse to get them done b/c the person waxing them at the salon will surely punch you in the face because your so ugly.
when you cant stop crying but this forum made you laugh for once in ten years....
..when you constantly look at reflective objects at school to see how your face is
Im the other way around...
When you avoid mirrors and wash your face with the lights dimmed out.
me too!! i dont understand how people look in the mirror so many times per day. I only look in the mirror when 1. Im really far away or 2. the lights are off or it is dim lighting.
Everytime you look in the mirror you cry
you go to the derm every month for two years.
when you hate your sister who you love just because she has clear beautiful skin
When you see someone with clear skin get a pimple and you feel extremely happy
when you see someone worse then you and you feel better
when you see a proactive commercial and change the channel so that you dont feel embarrased
when you practically run by the kiosk in the mall for proactiv
when you think that the guy you like will never be into you
when you have to encourage yourself in front of the mirror everyday to go to skewl
when you refuse to go to thanksgiving with your family becuz you dont want them to see your face
when you dread the next day cuz you know its going to be hell
when you take two hours on your makeup
when you check your face every ten minutes
when you drink milk and feel like you just commited a crime
when you look at older pics of yourself becuz you had clear skin then
omg!!! i was reading this and every single one I was like check , check, check.I have done or still do all of these except the makeup one.
Thank you. It made me smile and tear up at the same time
when you always wear your hair down so it covers half your face
when you hate the wind blowing your hair because it exposes more of your face to the world =\
when you part your hair depending on which side of your face is the worst so it can cover the bad side.
when you try to count your breakouts every night to keep track to see if it's getting any better (and sometimes there's too many to count)
when you wish you could go back to when you "only" had 15 breakouts at a time
when you wont go anywhere without putting on makeup first
when you are terrified that a friend may stop by without calling, because you wont have makeup on
when your long distance boyfriend mentions visiting soon and you think "Nooo my face looks terrible! I don't want you to see me like this!"
when you always wear your hair down so it covers half your face
when you hate the wind blowing your hair because it exposes more of your face to the world =\
when you part your hair depending on which side of your face is the worst so it can cover the bad side.
when you try to count your breakouts every night to keep track to see if it's getting any better (and sometimes there's too many to count)
when you wish you could go back to when you "only" had 15 breakouts at a time
when you wont go anywhere without putting on makeup first
when you are terrified that a friend may stop by without calling, because you wont have makeup on
when your long distance boyfriend mentions visiting soon and you think "Nooo my face looks terrible! I don't want you to see me like this!"
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! FUCK THIS SHIT
When you wear a hooded sweater with the hood up in 80+ degree weather
lol. That was me my final two years of highschool, and basically all of college besides the last year.
Man fuck that shit.
..you're in the military and having hellweek in the forest and you pretend that you're fainting/blacking out in front of 100 people to avoid taking your shirt off for a swim.
Relate to the not wanting to take shirt off because of bacne. Surprised the military didn't burn that insecurity out of you. Acne is crazy how powerfully detrimental it is...
back to topic:
... realizing how few people you really know and can rely on because how many people you push away because of acne...
...resulting in barely anybody knowing how traumatized by acne you are, and realizing just about everyone else thinks you're just a jerk or a dick because of pushing people away.
Oh being misunderstood.. 
Oh, and being totally unable to talk to the opposite sex without a wellspring of insecurities gushing forth and intruding on your behavior. It's like trying to play whack a mole with your psychology.
God help you if your face looks bad that day, it's bad enough trying to talk to just a regular person when that's the situation.
When you can honestly say that acne is ruining your life, and you feel like a putz for admitting it because 'there are starving children in Africa' sort of deal - fuck you society for making me feel ashamed for having acne and feeling bad about it.
when you hate your sister who you love just because she has clear beautiful skin
When you see someone with clear skin get a pimple and you feel extremely happy
when you see someone worse then you and you feel better
when you see a proactive commercial and change the channel so that you dont feel embarrased
when you practically run by the kiosk in the mall for proactiv
when you think that the guy you like will never be into you
when you have to encourage yourself in front of the mirror everyday to go to skewl
when you refuse to go to thanksgiving with your family becuz you dont want them to see your face
when you dread the next day cuz you know its going to be hell
when you take two hours on your makeup
when you check your face every ten minutes
when you drink milk and feel like you just commited a crime
when you look at older pics of yourself becuz you had clear skin then
omg!!! i was reading this and every single one I was like check , check, check.I have done or still do all of these except the makeup one.
Thank you. It made me smile and tear up at the same time
Lol your welcome i was sure someone could relate to me on at least one of these things lol:)
