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Had this one guy that I just remembered from high school that used to always make comments about my acne. Not only did he use to stare at the pimple but he also used to offer to pop it because it was 'annoying him'. That didn't really offend me. I don't really get put down by acne insults much because I know it'll get better in time and I have enough confidence to believe that I would look so much better once I'm cleared up. However, if someone told me that I was ugly, then that's a different story. I hated that guy though; not because of his acne remarks but because he was a total dickhead of a guy.
What gets me is why people think they have the right to make comments like that to your face - their only purpose is to humiliate you.
I might see someone on the street and think 'that guy is big' but I would never dream of saying to him 'hey, did you know you're really fat'. Because I'm a decent human being.
These nasty people should just keep their comments to themselves - and if you notice, they're often not that perfect either.
I just had a flare up from taking Accutane for the first time, and the 7 year old I babysit asked me if ive ever had chicken pox (I didnt know why he was asking it at first) then he asked me if had them yesterday,and he pointed to a huge red mark left over from a pimple 
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today i was starting another week of counseling at this summer camp and when they told me where i was workin, the 1 girl in the group (she is 11) said "ew i dont want him! his face is demented!" right in front of the girls my age i gotta work with and then she kept sayin "he's scary" and " i like him cuz he's ez to make fun of" i was ready to quit but i just kind of shook my head and didnt say anythin... i thought my acne was somewhat mild but now im not so sure... :-k i neva thought id get dissed so bad by any1 let alone a lil girl. and i gotta go back 4 more days! ](*,)
Ouch man, I've gotten dissed by a little girl before actually twice. Little girls are brats, I've come to realize that, one told me only gay guys wear pink and then another one said they thought I was fat for some reason, wtf I'm 95 pounds!! If I were to get any skinnier I wouldn't exist! Anyways, when my mom says I need to take my medicine because my face looks bad and I go I am taking my medicine! It also for some reaosn makes me feel bad when people make fun of acne or bacne and I go well umm I have bacne/acne and they go no you don't and continue to make fun of people who have it. That hurts a lot for some reaosn even though they are telling me I don't have it, well its definitely there, I can see it, so why don't I have it!
Sucks hey, how people can be so mean/
I was called just about every nasty name under the sun.
One day in year 9 (7 years ago) our class was waiting outside for our biology teacher to come, while waiting 4 or 5 guys decided it would be fun to bully me about my acne - calling me ugly, pushing/shoving me, one of them got right up in my face and told me 'your so ugly you deserve to die, your a waster of oxygen' or words to that effect.
Whatever self-esteem/confidence I had left that day was completely trashed.
Wow some of you guys really have it tough. I consider myself somewhat fortunate because I've been in pretty good schools (not private schools, just selective schools) all my life, and thus haven't had the same amount of dickheads in the school as some of you other guys may have had to encounter. Although the last school I was in was by far a lot worse than any other school I've been to, I enjoyed it because it gave me the chance to experience the 'real world' being that there are scum everywhere!
in junior high when it wasn't as bad as this I got made fun of lots of times (usually by the same small group of people). Yeah the pizza comment was really popular, I also got the "Have you ever heard of soap ?" "Man how can you look at yourself in the mirriror ? Does it break ?". that sort of crap. from people i probably could have beaten up pretty bad, and regret dearly now that I didn't.
Funnily enough, when I moved to high school and untill now I can't remember even one comment about my face, although it got much worse.
I just remembered something my Dad said...my mom and dad split up early on.
But I was visiting my Dad, and he was like "How come you've got acne....I dont have acne" insinuating that I might not be his kid.
Thanks dad!!!
I can laugh about that now.
And it didn't hurt too much at the time because I was already in such denial.
Hmmm.. might as well reply my thoughts.
My parents tell me -
" Come on honey, every kid goes through this"
but every kid parents i know will help mine dont care. They want me emotional scarred from the teasing.
I have heard
- God what the fuck happened to your face
-You are so ugly
-Don't touch me I do want that disease
-Your freaking dirty i mean nasty
-Yuck
-Loser your face is scarey!
Yeah i wish i could make them suffer through it.
I guess I'm really lucky, I've never been outright teased about my acne.
But I do remember an off-hand remark someone made in high school that to do this day still stings.
A classmate had overheard my telling the teacher that I was being put into a different foster home. When I sat back down, he poked his friend and said just loud enough for me to hear..."No wonder your parents don't want you! Freak!" (I was playing "goth" in High School)
I was too shocked to tell him to fuck off or to reply with some scathing wit, the ignorance that he showed astounded me. But later down the road he did take a swing at me which provided me with a VERY good excuse to knee him in the balls.
You know the funny thing? It still hurts.
I guess I'm really lucky, I've never been outright teased about my acne.
But I do remember an off-hand remark someone made in high school that to do this day still stings.
A classmate had overheard my telling the teacher that I was being put into a different foster home. When I sat back down, he poked his friend and said just loud enough for me to hear..."No wonder your parents don't want you! Freak!" (I was playing "goth" in High School)
I was too shocked to tell him to fuck off or to reply with some scathing wit, the ignorance that he showed astounded me. But later down the road he did take a swing at me which provided me with a VERY good excuse to knee him in the balls.
You know the funny thing? It still hurts.
ppl can be so cruel.......
dont let it get 2u.
Thank you. It hurts in that way when I think how much people don't think before they say something, and maybe it hurts because I've been guilty of saying crap like that more than a few times in my life.
It does not effect what I do today, although it is part of my drive as to why I'm getting into social work. Maybe that little sting of ignorance is fuel to the fire......but a good fire.
Even the worst of things can be drive for better. Well, as long as you survive the worst of it, that is!
Thank you! Oh, believe me, I didn't come this way naturually. Naturually I'm an impulsive indulgent lazy little brat.
Along the way to getting where I am now I devolped a drug addiction that left me homeless *(came as a suprise to realize that when you spend all your money on drugs, you can't pay rent!), did a hella lot of sleeping around *(landing me with two cureable but still embarressing STD's), stole and spent money that totally destroyed my credit *(something that I am regretting now) and a whole string of other problems that were also purely my own creation and fault. To quote a movie - "But the real damage - the real long-term damage? I did that to myself."
Alot of what pains us IS self-created. But maybe that's okay, because that means we are also the solution.
Move over Ghandi, we've a new guru on the block!!!! What made you do these things anyway? You didn't have the best childhood but u didn't have to do all those things to prove to yourself that you can feel.....
when we know pain is self created we can find the solution to it yea. but it's nice to blame it on other ppl sometimes 2
i have an aunt who is very very Christian, y'know the ones, raises her hands in the air and says hallelujah after almost every statement.
anyways i hadnt seen her for a couple of years and she came to visit and stay with us. other family members and friends from her Church also arrived for dinner and to catch up with her at our house, maybe a small group of about 20. so as everyone is leaving and saying their goodbyes, my aunt asks them to stay cos she'd like to say a prayer before everyone leaves. we all bow our heads in the living room and im only half-listening... until midprayer, i hear my aunt asking God to help with my acne. i wished the floor had opened and swallowed me up. but then it got worse - she then asked everyone in the room to also remember me and my pimples in their prayers.
i was mortified. i know she meant well but i felt like dying. i went bright red and had to will myself not to cry as strangers came up to me and looked with pity at my face. i felt like a fkkin mutant.
Hmmm.. might as well reply my thoughts.My parents tell me -
" Come on honey, every kid goes through this"
but every kid parents i know will help mine dont care. They want me emotional scarred from the teasing.
I have heard
- God what the fuck happened to your face
-You are so ugly
-Don't touch me I do want that disease
-Your freaking dirty i mean nasty
-Yuck
-Loser your face is scarey!
Yeah i wish i could make them suffer through it.
I know how you feel...It's the worse when you're own parents don't even care about helping you. My mom used to tell me taht i would outgrow it ( when i was 17 and i had sever acne). Now i'm 22, i haven't outgrown nothing, my parents make nasty comments about my face. Feels like blowing up my own home sometimes.
@pen : are u from mississipi?
Well, this isn't exactly a direct insult, but I found it incredibly ignorant.
My friend was helping out at a theatre camp for 3rd to 8th graders. They write their own plays. One of their plays was called "The Origin of Ugly People." In the play, there's a group of girls whose parents won't let them eat chocolate because they'll get acne. However, the girls don't care, so they run off to the woods and eat chocolate all day, consequently ending up with acne. And that, according to the play, is how ugly people evolved. Lovely. Needless to say, the audience hated the play.
