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When I was in the 9th grade, I was sitting with a group of people I had to work with in my theatre arts class, one guy asked me if he could pop my zits. Yeah that was disturbing; not to mention, this guy asked me if we could biracial children 2 weeks earlier. Again, disturbing. Lets just say I'm glad I made it out of 9th grade without medication.
Another example, just 2 years ago, this girl in my History class at my University wrote me a letter about my foundation being too light for my face. I thought she was trying to be nice in her own sick way, so I brushed it off. Then 3 days later, I caught her talking bad about me with these 3 other girls saying, "I told her about her make up, but she didn't want to listen!"
My dad once had the nerve to tell me, "Geez, your face looks very bad." (oh geez dad, ya think?)
Another girl at my University said, "You know what, there's this cleanser my cousin used for bad acne breakouts." ( What? Do I wear a sign that says, please comment on my face)_
The most infuriating thing someone has said to me has to be when I was 17, working at a country club. This landscaper comes up to me and asks me if I "pull pull". I asked him what he was talking about and he said in broken english (he's Italian), "you pull pull, you play with yourself?" I was shocked and just stood there and he says, "you masterbate, you have pimples, you must play with yourself." I told one person who was so shocked, I just decided to keep it to myself. The landscaper would always walk by me and pantomine masterbating motions with his hands.
wow. as offensive as that is; i'd probably find it amusing and laugh at him doing the motions and such.
I've not had those terrible stories that some of you guys shared. Just the usual "Have you heard about this treatment..." type of comments from well-meaning but insensitive relatives and family members.
Ok, here's an open question for everyone...is there a right way to tell someone that they need to seek treatment for acne? Can it be done without being insensitive or rude?
When I was 16 I had terrible acne. I didn't even know what a dermatologist was (this was before the internet and acne message boards). My parents brought me to our family doc. All he did was give me a soap sample (worthless). It was a yr and a half until I saw a dermatologist. I wish someone had clued me in sooner.
eh wow
I was once told it looks like i have a bad disease on my face.
I was like wTF..
i also had a teacher actually ask me, if i had been diagnosed w/ skin cancer..
although my skin has durastically cleared from before.. I still get those comments about my redness... or even the little pimples you get on your lip.. the small ones & they say.. Oh you suckin dick huh?
im like WTF IS wrong w/ you....
I was actually so hurt one day,& poured soda on a girl because she came up to me & said i look like a pizza, but one that no one would eat, & that i was worthless to this earth, so i took my soda & poured it on her..
what a fuckin bitch
NOT TO MENTION IVE BEEN TOLD
YOU BREAK OUT CUZ YOUR GAY... YOU STRESS TOO MUCH CUZ YOUR GAY,
ONLY GAY MEN & WOMEN BREAK OUT.. WTF! ?
I haven't had many bad comments about my acne, but when I was 12, I got my first pimple, and it was a giant on my nose. So i popped it, and someone in class was like, "is that a pimple?" I tried to convince them it was a cut, but there was no way they could be fooled. Also, I had a pimple on my forehead and the kid next door was talking about mosquito bites and pointed to it and said, "like this!" I just said, "oh, uh, Yeah! like that!"
Where to begin, 
Probably "Can I call you spotty from now on?"(when I had an outbreak) or the timeless line "use some clearasil". These were from people in school, who I fairly knew and thought I got on fairly well with.
However its the actions from complete strangers that really got me. A couple of years back when my acne was at its peak, I was in a shopping centre (aka mall) with my bro and mum. I was just walking along minding my own business, when all of a sudden I was greeted by the loud comments of a fat chav girl, who must have deemed her retarded thoughts too good to be kept to herself. "EEEEEEWWWWW thats disgusting". Bear in mind this was said at the top of her voice in a crowded area, in the presence of family. You could probably easily guage the amount of embarassment and worthlessness I felt at that moment 
Back in grade 8: "Is your acne acting up again?"
Also during art class, we were learning how to draw each others face. My partner was a guy who sat in front of me (I was actually feeling good that day). Anyways, the teacher instructed us to look at the other persons nose and she was like "what do you see?" the guy in front of me made a disgusted face and uttered "Zits!"
Same guy also said "Why don't you pop that?" this was directed at a huge cyst i had under my nose.
A couple days ago I was at a friends house for dinner, they spoke a different language so i could barely understand what they were saying. But being that me and my friend have been buddies for years I could usually make out small simple words. Anyways, her grandma looks at me and says "why is her face so red?" my other friend was like "She's drunk." sarcastically (obviously I wasn't) and then the moms just like "It's just her bad skin." I can't believe her family was having discussions about my skin not knowing that i could understand them. GEEZ, I was so embarrassed I had to excuse myself to go to the washroom and pretend everything was fine. 
I haven't really been called anything, even when my face was horrible broken out in March of 2005..lacrosse season.. Most people made fun of my hair cause I gelled it like a combover, but my hair was really long, but I was like w/e. When me and this other guy were in the locker room, he was like "your sister's ugly"..I was just thinking "what a lowlife loser." A few other people were asses, but now last year..junior year, they've matured a lot.
In my school yearbook i submitted a pretty decent photo of me and a few of my mates for my page. Everyone was given nicknames along the top of the page, I put mine down as a name a few of my mates called me. In the actual one the people who were doing the yearbooks changed my title to Captain Spotty. I remember being so embarressed when everyone was reading them together. I threw mine away, gutting.
Also in classes we were catting about this girl that I liked (and who in retrospect I discovered actually liked me amazingly) and me and two mates were chatting and one of them went "well you have no chance dude" and the other guy was "why not" and then he proceeded to stand up and shout to the whole class if they thought I was too spotty to fancy. They all thought him a prick but I was so embarressed and must have been so red. He's probably my best mate now but I'll still never forgive him for that.
Some guy must have been bored doing his homework, as he drew a picture of my face and left it in his textbook, and handed it in by mistake. the next day we had a lesson, and the teacher was handing back our books that had been marked, and he held up the picture to the whole class, and laughed at it. the whole class burst out laughing, everyone was hysterical. to make it worse, i started crying like a loser, and people kept turning round and sniggering at me.
thats gota be one of the worst moments in my life. 
Might as well add mine since this thread is alive again...
In 6th grade, a classmate came by my desk when I was writing and saw how my upper back was all broken out. "Eeeeewwwwwwww," she said, "what's that on your back?" scrunching up her nose with a look of total disgust.
In 7th grade, I was "the new girl" & was very shy and self-conscious because my face was even worse by then. When we got our yearbooks at the end of the year, a kid who had been rude to me sometimes asked if he could sign mine. (I was a little surprised. Maybe he thought I was okay after all?) He wrote something and then asked me what religion I was. I told him I was brought up Lutheran. When he handed the book back it said, "To a zit-faced Lutheran." Trying to cover as many bases in his offensiveness as possible, I guess. He could have just left me alone.
Some guy must have been bored doing his homework, as he drew a picture of my face and left it in his textbook, and handed it in by mistake. the next day we had a lesson, and the teacher was handing back our books that had been marked, and he held up the picture to the whole class, and laughed at it. the whole class burst out laughing, everyone was hysterical. to make it worse, i started crying like a loser, and people kept turning round and sniggering at me.thats gota be one of the worst moments in my life.
Jesus christ... a teacher did that? What a fucking asshole. You should have had him fired! Sorry you had to go through that sweety.
ugh i have alot but since iv started high school it seems to get better like the one time in 8th grade a girl in my class told me "God look at all his pimple scars".
My "Friend" told me : Richard why dont you use proactiv or go to the doctor" he actually brought me whips to clean my face with
MOM: you use to much stuff on your face thats why you have so much redness
On christmas i was haveing fun and enjoying everything until my pathetic cousin told me in front of everybody "have you used proactiv because you dont have jessica simpson skin!"
im like what the hell if i had the money maybee i would hahah bitch.
my nephew: Richard you have alot of mosquito bites use oxy.
My own sister: you should use olay it really works
PEople in 8th grade: how can you get pimples on your neck are you sick or something
My So called best friend: eww pop that whitehead!
well just to show you how many bitches talk about acne hahahah
Just today when I was working a kid was staring at me.. I just ignored it and continued to talk to his mom. When she payed he asked me "What's wrong with your face?".
I just sighed and closed my eyes for a second. The mother said "maybe you'll look like that when you're a teenager", then walked away.
That's the worst I've ever felt. The thing is, I've always had low self esteem. Even a few years back when I didn't have acne. Now it's just horrible.
Oh well..
My little cousin came up too me one day and said, what is that red stuff on your face and i just laughed and let my aunt explain it too him, then in elementary school this gr 1 said, oh i didnt think you could get chicken pocks in gr 8, i got mine last year... i also laughed. But im waiting for somebody to blatenly say something like pizza face or crator face, because then somebodys getting knocked the f*** out.
i would say i was pretty lucky....probably since i spent most of my teen years in my room considering suicide.
...but the worst was probably the looks and stares in general. on top of that this one time in hs while i was with friends at the copier this kid looks in utter disgust at my face and goes "ewwww. gross"...right in front of everyone. but people just ignored him while i wanted to find the nearest closet to hid in.
You would think that being an adult you wouldn't have to deal with as much of this crap, but alas people are still retarded, even when they're old.
My boyfriend is 33, divorced and has a 12 year old daughter. His ex is also 33, so imagine her excitement when she finds out that his new girlfriend (me) is only 27. Doesn't seem like much of an age difference to he and I, but she makes it sound like decades. Anway, she finds anything she can do tear me apart and try to make him rethink our relationship. (which isn't working) She's got 'em all. "She lives really extravagantly, do you think you can afford that?" (She never worked until the divorce. I put myself through college and have earned everything I have.) Her favorite however is to comment on my skin. "Are you sure she's 27? Her skin looks like she's still in puberty." "So, you're replacing me with a pimply faced kid." "What kind of example is she for our daughter? She can't even wash her face properly." One day we saw her at WalMart. I can't remember what we were talking about, but he touched my cheek. She walked up and her first comment "How can you touch her face. It looks disgusting." It comes in so many forms and she loves to make those comments with her daughter standing there. (The ex hates that we get along.) I try not to let it get to me. I just remind myself of where it is coming from, but it still hurts nonetheless. (And yes, he does defend me. Unlike her, he somehow understands the agony of dealing with acne for the past 17 years and despite my skin is very much in love with me. )
On the flip side, I do get good comments on my skin. Like my bf, yesterday he told me that he couldn't believe what a beautiful color my skin was. (I have a strong olive complexion and though I am caucasion I am often mistaken for someone with an ethnic background)
My mom reminds me of the same. Early this week she commented on how much better the redness of my face was. "You can really see that beautiful color now." Although she also told me last month that my face looked raw. (which it was)
I guess it goes both ways. I just try to keep the good comments in the front of my mind and let the bad slip away. Yeah, it's not that easy.
Sorry I rambled...
Wow what a bitch, how does she sleep at night
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to all the assholes who comment on our skin
\Wow what a bitch, how does she sleep at night
Unfortunately that isn't even the worst of the stunts she pulls. Oh and I'm sure she sleeps well in the house that he pays for. You'd think she'd wanna play nice since he's doubling the child support to help her finish school. Oh well what are you gonna do.
I just breathe easy knowing that Kharma is a B!tch!!
\Wow what a bitch, how does she sleep at night
Unfortunately that isn't even the worst of the stunts she pulls. Oh and I'm sure she sleeps well in the house that he pays for. You'd think she'd wanna play nice since he's doubling the child support to help her finish school. Oh well what are you gonna do.
I just breathe easy knowing that Kharma is a B!tch!!
lol she's obviously jealous but I hope you reply when she is saying that stuff to you.
my brother was quick to call me oily when he was little...
he still does it ocassionally, it really pisses me off.
i want to think ive been fortunate not to be made fun of much, but really, id beat the crap out of anyone who did. and in hs people were afraid of me. 
not much good was said about me- worse?