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"Looks like someone threw crap at you through a screen door!""Can I play connect the dots on your face?"
Boring story:
I was waiting in the deli of a supermarket, when I start overhearing some people.
"Oh my goodness, he looks horrible. How could he go out like that?"
"He is probably like only 14." Note. I was 18 at the time, I look young.
"I wouldn't let him date my daughter."
They said some more things like that, then...
"I have to stop looking at him, or I will throw up."
I was about to walk right up to them, then...
"Why can't he dress like that nice boy in the red shirt." I was wearing the red shirt. They were talking about a kid in the food court dressed like a punk, complete with green hair. I was so self conscious I thought they were talking about me, damn acne.
I know the feeling... people say that I'm handsome (though I don't think so.) I hate not knowing whether people are looking at me because they like me, or because they're shocked.
I had one guy say, "should pop that pimple on your nose," maybe like 5 years ago when I was 15, he just said it out of the blue cause me and him were like duking out the nasty comments. (Guy was a jackass, but not really that bad).
Besides that everyone else I've been around doesn't care. But I don't let people discourage me if I keep it under 90% control.
Thank you DKR 
ok i just remembered somethin that happened to me last semester in school......a few classmates n i gathered together to discuss about a group project n one of the guys had to leave early, so he gave a goodbye kiss to all the grls except for me...he just waived....i felt like crying..of course i didnt show any emotion, i just made believe ididnt see anythin.
=(
that bastard!
One nice response to those kind of comments is say, in kind of an outraged/offended voice. "Well, excuse me if I'm going through puberty and you aren't." It sounds lame on paper, but I've heard it work quite well.
And the worst thing someone has said to me about acne.
1. Someone at my school just pointed me and said "Acne!" Yup, I've gotten the comments about drinking pop, eating junk food, and washing, but that was deffinitely the worst.
Unfortunately when you are pushing towards menopause (not really that old) the 'going through puberty' comment doesn't really wash.
Although the upside of being older with acne is that most people are mature enough to not comment at all.
I did have a guy at work ask what happened to my face (bad cyst which exploded) because his wife's skin cancer looked the same. Yeh, great I don't have acne, I have skin cancer (sarcasm).
the meanest thing said to me was dude thats gross (not in a mean tone)... he was my friend to but i dont really care. luckly for me for my grade iam pretty cool with everyone in my grade so they dont say anything. But if they do say somthing to me in a mean tone i just have to come up with a comeback. Like if a pretty girl says you are ugly and you have lots of zits tell them hey why dont you come to school with no make up then see whose talking. most girls look alot worse without makeup especially when they wear it all the time and you just see them with no makeup. And if a guy talks to me i would probably say somthing like well atleast iam going somewhere in life unlike you F@&king prick. in my town I live with alot of lowerclass people (iam considered Very high middle class there iam pretty smart too and going to college)that after highschool they will become a janitor or a gardner or somthing along those lines. but thats mostly for the lowerclass people. If its an average guy said that i would just try to zero in on any weakness they have like if they get bad grades,ugly teeth, ect... but i dont really know why iam talking about this because ive never had this problem lol
basically if someone says bad things about you just come up with a comback
in person i think the worst was something like calling me a pizza face.
the worst (2 actually) were over the internet when i used to have a myspace. (i hate the thing now) and some guy commented me and wrote an entire fucking essay on how he'd like to set me out in the sun and put bacon over my face and watch it sizzle or something like that. another guy used my picture in ms paint in which i'm getting impaled by a unicorn and everyones shouting "wtf is wrong with your face"
yeah...
A few years ago when I was working at a retail store a little girl came up to me (she was about 8) and said "What happened to you?" trying not to make a big deal out of it I just said nothing. Then louder she asked me "What happened to your face?" Before I could answer (or run away.. Her parents came over and apologized. I don't know which was worse, since my co-workers were standing there. I don't think they meant to embarass me but it really did. I have seen several other people post this or something similar. It just sucks.
Wow! I actually read everysingle post on everysingle page!!
this is the worst thing that has been said about my skin, (I didnt even have acne at the time) I forget who even said it, it was a while ago but ya..
"WHY are you so white?"
That really bothers me, because I DONT TAN... Fuck. Do you go to a black person and ask them "why are you so black?" nooo... Its racism
Ive had more then one person comment on my paleness... like
ohh youd look good if you were tanned...
why dont you go to a tanning bed?
ect...
But wayyyy back in the day "pale" was sexy cuzz it meant you didnt work outside..
Whatever
ill be laughing when all those faketits/fakehair/fakenail/faketeeth/faketan bitches have wrinkles and skin cancer.
also regarding the acne:
"WHy is your chin so red?"
"you have something on your chin.. what happened?"
Yeaaa....
just to let you know, i think pale girls are really attractive.
I get hardly any mean comments... more just people being curious and slightly tactless.
"What happened to your face?" etc. not in a malicious way. they wouldnt have realised it was even acne because the cysts looked like huge burns or mosquito bites or something.
But now my skins better, cyst wise. Noone says anything about my face-positive or negative.
I hate when people think that acne is the result of uncleanliness or laziness. They'll ask if you wash your face twice a day and if you've ever tried clearasil. Some people even seem to think you must be oblivious to the problem you have to wake up to every morning. One guy I dated was like this, but at least he realized money factored into it too.
"If you had the money to fix anything about yourself what would you fix?" - Guy I had just started dating.
Me: "I'm not sure. Lots of stuff I suppose. I don't really believe in cosmetic surgery though."
Him: "Well you should at least buy some cream for your face or get it lasered."
I know I have acne and scarring. Duh. I only have drawers full of of drugstore, perscription and freaking witch doctor cures for it. I would love to get a lazer treatment (not that I can afford it), but my derm refuses to give me one until my acne calms down because he claims it would be pointless.
I guess people are trying to help, but they need to realize it is a sore point and should approach the subject with some tact. Other times people are just complete jerks.
For example, my ex's best friend said you could play connect the dots on my face. That smarted.
You know what's really messed up? These are comments that we actually get to hear. Imagine what we don't hear... On second thought, I'd rather not think about that, lol.
Little kids are the scariest because they have zero social tact. If I see little kids in the grocery store with their family, I skip that aisle.
But at the end of the day, I agree with what some people have said about just saying f*ck anybody who says something mean. If you know anybody who would judge somebody by their looks, they're not the kind of person you want to know anyways. Just be yourself and you'll find the nice ppl and filter out the bad. ;]
"When I looked at your face with my glasses on for the first time, I was disgusted"
That is so mean. I am sorry that someone has said this about you
It gets worse. The person who said it was my so-called best friend at the time too
I know. I get comments like that from my so-called best friend too. She will always say how she has too many pimples blah blah, when I can only see three small spots. She always wants to meet up with me because we're so-called best friends and then she will start talking about her skin, how it looks so good already blah blah blah and I can't do anything but just keep silent and let her finish praising herself.
Once she even exclaimed in front of me, "What have you been doing to your face!?" And I was already seeing a dermatologist that time. I felt so so hurt I wanted to leave her right then and there. Up to now, I always try to avoid meeting her as much as possible. She is such a pain.
in person i think the worst was something like calling me a pizza face.
the worst (2 actually) were over the internet when i used to have a myspace. (i hate the thing now) and some guy commented me and wrote an entire fucking essay on how he'd like to set me out in the sun and put bacon over my face and watch it sizzle or something like that. another guy used my picture in ms paint in which i'm getting impaled by a unicorn and everyones shouting "wtf is wrong with your face"
yeah...
Thats very cruel, one thing i have noticed is that if someone on youtube is fat, half of the comments will be something like "OMFG LOSE WEIGHT FATTY", pathetic.
Ones ive heard, last time i was insulted about acne was 3 years ago, though if i have a serious arguement with my brother i get massive insults like, aww you poor f*** awwww your skin could cook chip fat.
"pizza face" sometimes varied with want some pepperoni lol
"its called clearasil, have you heard of it?"
"just use soap" LOL
"dot to dot" accompanied with a finger pointing from spot to spot
"Youve had spots for like forever"
one time while i was getting my hair cut the stylist went to get something and in the mirror i saw her confering with the other stylists and then she came back and was like " hey have you ever tried anything to get rid of that acne?" if it wouldnt have been for the scissors she was holding in her hand i would have punched her in the face
I've been called everything you could possible imagine, i dont remember too many of them cause ive had acne for so long but there was this one time in highschool. I had a huge cyst on my chin and was about to walk across the school yard, about halfway across these 2 guys run up to me going "excuse me", and as i turn around they burst in to laughter and run back inside. However things are alot better now and its been some time now since anyone treated me like this or called me names. 
I've gotten maybe a dozen comments in my life. I take delicious pleasure in the one guy who made three or four comments about my acne last year, when it was worse, who is now breaking out himself. I haven't said anything to him about it, relishing the irony silently.
Like, "You know Jeff, tall, red-head, bad acne." And I think, why the crap would I care if he has acne? What, do you describe me as "that kid with acne" too?
Oh God, I hate when people say something like this to me!
For me it was when my best friend asked me " Do you wash your face ?" OF COURSE I WAS MY FACE U FOOL ... that made mefeel horrible.. and then to make it worse he says " I dont know how you leave the house with skin like that"
Needless to say I wanted to cry, and I did when I got home. Like a 5 year old girl I cried my eyes out.
P.S. I wish I could give everyone in this thread a big hug because we all deserve one for all the crap people have said to us over the years. No one ever deserves to be made fun of ever.
