"is that enough?" said by some total stranger walking past me at coachella. that bitch

I should've mocked the way this idiot talked...he sounded like a woman.

That guy cutting your hair was probably gay. You should have responded something like this "Ahh thanks for the tip queer bait!"

No need for homophobic remarks.

I've never had anyone comment on my acne, not since I was 16 or so. I guess I am lucky that at age 29 I have coworkers and friends who are mature enough not to make fun. My worst critic is myself by far. I am extremely hard on myself when it comes to my acne. It seems to rule my world at the moment.

I work at a nursing home and I went to bring food to one of the residents and she was like "it looks like you've been out in the sun today". I just responded "yeah" and walked away.

Why is it that so many people on these boards work in a nursing home?

Seriously the amount of sentances that start with " I work in a nursing home and...." are unbelievable!

A boy who was 3 years older than me tormented me in 5th grade all year becuase i had one on the center of my nose at the beginning of the year. He called me rudolph, he laughed and made fun for at least 3 minutes after I got on the bus every morning, and even when he passed me in the hall

I can take anything anyone has to sling, but the WORST is when people see you and touch their face. This one guy thats an annoying friend of my roommate touches his face every time he sees me and I just want to be like DO YOU WANT TO FEEL IT! Also the isnt mean but the hardest thing is when my friend asked what it feels like and i couldn't find anything that he would be able to relate to.

This one guy thats an annoying friend of my roommate touches his face every time he sees me and I just want to be like DO YOU WANT TO FEEL IT

Lmao. Seconded. Whenever someone around me touches their face, I can't tell whether they're just scratching something on theirs, or referring to the crap on mine.

He called me rudolph

I have a huge one on my nose right now, and I was just thinking that about myself.

My family members are by far the most annoying. I can't wait to graduate and get out of here.

"Why does [Mesmer] have a mirror in his room?! Guys don't use mirrors!"

"It's so that he can check how bad his face looks easier."

Ah but graduating doesn't solve the problem. My mom calls me every day asking how my face is doing, when all i want to do is think about it as least as possible. The worst is when you go back after not seeing them for a while, and no matter how much you think you've improved its always ... Oh my its still pretty bad, but dont worry hun it will get better soon. There is a reason I only go back home once a month for derm visits, and its not bc i love the cafeteria food, or drunken neighbors partying til 4 every night.

This isn't something I was called, but I once heard two guys tell some poor dude with bad acne scars that his face looked like it caught on fire and someone put it out with a pitchfork.

"Sick head and face to match!"

"Ahahahahahahahaha!"

"Dude, what happened to your face?"

"If my skin looked like that, I'd kill myself."

"I feel sorry for you."

Those were from a couple years back when I looked like the Elephant Man due to my cystic acne. My skin's looking pretty good now though, if I do say so myself. Some girl even complimented it .

I've gotten different comments here and there but nothing I consider to be harsh.

An acquiantance of mine, however, said someone once sarcastically asked her 'why don't you just rub sand paper on your face?' I became so angry just from her retelling the story.

I had when i was 17 a friend told me, ew girl you need to go see a derm doctor quick! I hated her for that I see her now we are both in are late 20's early 30's and her face is all broke out now and I laugh.

;o

I'm glad that ive never been made fun of, unless its a harmless joke from a good friend.... I've never ever had bad acne, except for a few months ago when I had a bacteria infection and I was on holiday with my best friends..

My parents always comment tho when I get a spot, lol, it really doesnt bother me though because that shows their concern.

No one has ever really made a real harsh comment about my skin before...even when it was at it's worst, I mean if it's just jokes from friends, I won't mind since we always rip on each other over stuff.

"ACNEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"

"dot-to-dot"

"be careful, her volcanoes might errupt!"

"eww, look at all that bacteria on her face"

"Halloween is over, you can take your mask off now"

"oxycute 'em"

"when was the last time you washed your face?"

"just wash your face"

That's just a few that I can think of at the moment. And don't you just hate it when people who don't suffer from acne generally make suggestions on what you should do -like they say, why don't you use such and such a product (usually something that you've already tried about a hundred times)? I've been using it for years and have never had a single spot (lucky them). I appreciate that they are only trying to help, but if only it was that simple.

Snowflakes x

-EVERY TIME I ate a biscuit, or even just took an extra crisp and either my parents or brother would say "You'll get fat and spotty!" or "It won't help darling".

-People saying my face was like the surface of the moon

-When I found out people used to call me "Zit-face" and "Spot-arse" and other names behind my back.

AND, the turning point where I realised I couldn't go on with my acne like it was:

One time on a train with a few female friends these two random guys started chatting to us. I generally kept my head down and covered my face with my hand (as per usual). They seemed nice enough so I relaxed a bit and took my hand away, and they started talking to me. I looked right at them, smiled and replied and the expression on their faces totally changed. Both of them looked shocked, and then started snorting with laughter.

Pretty defensive I asked "What?"

Laughing they replied, "Your face man!"

Generally anytime anyones called me spotty right to my face.

That's always the worst.

My acne was paticuarly bad when I was 11-14, when the majority of boys would do anything for a pretty face. Having acne like I did I really just wasn't worth their time. Like, if you weren't someone 'fit' to be potentially dated then none of them had any regard for your feelings or how you were effected by what they said. Most of them would openly laugh about me when they knew I could hear, and they just didn't CARE. God knows, if i'd been beautiful they would have fallen over themselves to be nice to me. It really got to me how so many of the boys my friends would find 'sooo sweet' were actually anything but. To be honest, having acne opened my eyes to how shallow teenagers can really be.

....rant over

One time I remembered the other day...

I was in high school and having a pretty bad breakout. I turned to look at the board and this kid goes "eww you have alot of pimples!'' really loud.

Wasn't as bad as some of you guys' but I don't think I'll ever forget how that felt

Well about 6 months ago when 2 of my closest friends first came home from their colleges (i go to a local college and stay with my mom) they first saw me with the horrible acne

We went out and spent the day together and smoked weed for a lot of the day. Near the end of the day i was in the backseat of the car, and they were in the front seat, and since we were all high they mustve thought i couldnt hear them but i could

one of my friends said " Damn i would hate to be **** (my name)" and my other friend replied "no bitches"

it hurt bad hearing that but theyre still my boys so

another awkward moment, this one was REALLY awkward and the funny thing is that nothing was said, no insults or anything

But i was smoking some weed with one of my friends, and we went back to his house, and god dammit his older brother (whom id never met before) was there with a couple of his friends. So i had to be introduced to them all and i was looking ugly as hell, really damn ugly obviously with my disgusting face

Anyway, we sat down and was smoking some more while watching ghostbusters 2 on tv, and my friend and his brother left the room for some reason after the blunt died, and i was just sitting there with these two fools in their early 20s who i just met a few minutes ago, watching ghostbusters. Everything was okay because we were high and laughing and saying stupid shit, i was beginning to relax and become comfortable....All of a sudden, it went to commercial, and guess what fucking commercial came on

A PROACTIV COMMERCIAL....a fucking long ass informecial with jessica simpson interviewing people or some shit with before and after pictures, and were just all sitting there, watching this acne commercial, and me sitting there with horrible acne, it was so damn awkward and uncomfortable, i wanted to leave the room.... All the people on the commercial were talking about how bad it feels to be out with friends or out in public with acne, and im just sitting there thinking "omg someone change the channel" but we didnt live at this house and didnt know where the remote was or anything.....It was STONE COLD SILENT....very bad memory

damn i typed too much

"i'll have a water, i don't wanna end up like this guy"

I should've mocked the way this idiot talked...he sounded like a woman.

 

That guy cutting your hair was probably gay. You should have responded something like this "Ahh thanks for the tip queer bait!"

 

No need for homophobic remarks.

 

I doubt he's scared of gay people.

I don't really get anything from other kids. I did last year when I was a skinny bitch.

Only people who have said anything are, my doctor, my dad, my mom, my sister. I hate how my family thinks over the counter stuff will work. And they won't let me get accutane even though I need it. I also hate when people make a big deal out of one tiny whitehead.

If I got 1 more pimple a day I would be so happy.

I posted here before but I wanted to add another lol

In public restaurant with my sister.her boyfriend andy.step mom and dad

my sister "oh your skin looks so much better" she starts crackn up "andy paid me to say that (giggle giggle)" oh yeah and shes 30

my moms friend omg your skin looks way way better *rubs hands all over my face* as if touching to make sure the zits arn't invisible

oh yeah and the guy that made fund of me before asked me if my face got burned in a laughing way :/

Nobody's ever said anything mean about it to me. I've had people talk to me about it, educated discussions, in fact.

In grade school, though, someone once said I had a giant zit on my forehead like I didn't know about it. I just said, "Why thank you Captain Obvious. I just heard that the sky is blue today, too. <snicker>"

The only time I have trouble dealing with comments is when kids ask why I have spots on my face. I have no satisfactory answer to that without getting into technobabble.