Grr! I hate it when people start telling you what they think you should do.

Like I was getting a haircut a couple of weeks ago and the lady was like, "You should just lay off the chocolate, it worked for my daughter; No more chocolate! Not even at night when no one sees!" and she thought she was really funny. Oh, haha yeah, I sneak down to the kitchen every night at 2 am and snarf down chocolate.

I wanted to punch her in the face.

It's like THANK YOU VERY MUCH BUT I KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT THIS THAN YOU DO.

And she even had the nerve to say, "Just remember that you are beautiful."

Well thanks lady, I never thought of myself as ugly in the first place, but I guess you must assume that I hate the way I look.

Such narrow-minded people.

in the mall looking at CDs, a girl comes by and starts checking out one album talking to her mom about it, she looks over at me and all i hear is "ew".

i went home after that.

Grr! I hate it when people start telling you what they think you should do.

Like I was getting a haircut a couple of weeks ago and the lady was like, "You should just lay off the chocolate, it worked for my daughter; No more chocolate! Not even at night when no one sees!" and she thought she was really funny. Oh, haha yeah, I sneak down to the kitchen every night at 2 am and snarf down chocolate.

I wanted to punch her in the face.

It's like THANK YOU VERY MUCH BUT I KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT THIS THAN YOU DO.

And she even had the nerve to say, "Just remember that you are beautiful."

Well thanks lady, I never thought of myself as ugly in the first place, but I guess you must assume that I hate the way I look.

 

Such narrow-minded people.

Dont be too hard on her, shes just dumb, just really fucking dumb, a complete airhead in fact . you have to almost feel sorry for people like that. At least her intentions were good just that she had an IQ of minus something. And the "Just remember you are beautiful" comment is probably the nicest mean comment Ive ever seen

Kuhoolish- Ouch, that must have stung. Unlucky

I think my "favorite" response to my face was my 4 year old little sister running up to me after she came home from school and yelling "Danny has Polka Dots on his face!!!".

It was cute, but it made me feel horrible for the rest of the day.

Another time, I was filling up the car with gas, and I was driving my dad around, and I notice him staring at my face, and I look away. All he has to say is: "Are you doing anything about your face? It's gotten alot worse. You should see a doctor"

blah.

I'm just glad to know I'm on the path to clear skin

A few years ago I was on a weekend trip with some co-workers and we were hanging out at the pool and one of them said to me in the snottiest tone ever "so when's your face going to clear up?"

like i had made a deliberate choice to have acne.

it's bad enough to be at the pool without the guard of make-up without someone mentioning it.

i never forgot that. (obviously)

on the same trip her friend told me that i should use witch hazel because it worked for her son...

and i thought i had gone on the trip to have fun...silly me.

yeah some ppl can say alot of mean stuff to you. ive been in class and we were in science so we sat at table not desk where ppl were in lines around the table and the whole focus was on me. everyone was like looking at my skin one kid said "your acne fucked your face up you have all those scars" and everyone heard it i just kinda ignored it but i knew everyone heard him because they were all looking at me. other people would say get proactive( shit you damn fucker ive tried that it didnt work) . i felt like socking him in the face it was pretty embarassing. i know i was probably one of those kids when i was a freshman or sophmore now im a jr i have acne. i made fun of my brother when he had it but i wouldnt say anything to him at school just around the house. i feel sad and angry about that now. i know exactly what it feels like when u walk in the class room or anything everyone looks at you and says mean stuff. i wish i can take everything back i said to people to bring them down or hurt them. now im just trying to be a better person and not say anything mean about anyone to hurt thier self confidence. everyone isnt perfect so who ever makes fun of someone think about everything that your not happy about yourself. "make fun of yourself before you make fun of someone else" and see if you like that feeling its the worst feeling in the world.

My girlfriend and I were having dinner with my folks and bro, and my mom says to my gf, "He doesn't eat seafood because he's afraid it gives him acne."

Nice.

^^moms can be real jackasses sometimes.... I would know

Someone said my I WAS AN UGLY MUTHA FUCKA with acne..

I killed that person...

it was in a videogame.

"It looks like a volcano erupted on your forehead!"

"What the hell happened to your face?"

Those comments were from a close friend and the other from my sister! ONE DAY................................i will have better skin than both of them and then they won't know what hit them!

lol not really mean, more innocent. my 13 year old cousin pointed to an acne scar on my jawline earlier and was shocked 'Youve got a whole in your face!!'. i think she was quite distressed

i didnt even know it existed! *adds to list of scars* lol

Grr! I hate it when people start telling you what they think you should do.

Like I was getting a haircut a couple of weeks ago and the lady was like, "You should just lay off the chocolate, it worked for my daughter; No more chocolate! Not even at night when no one sees!" and she thought she was really funny. Oh, haha yeah, I sneak down to the kitchen every night at 2 am and snarf down chocolate.

I wanted to punch her in the face.

It's like THANK YOU VERY MUCH BUT I KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT THIS THAN YOU DO.

And she even had the nerve to say, "Just remember that you are beautiful."

Well thanks lady, I never thought of myself as ugly in the first place, but I guess you must assume that I hate the way I look.

 

Such narrow-minded people.

I know how that feels. I used to work at a department store with a clinique counter where I was friendly with some of the girls and they always thought that they had a cure. And when their acne line came out they just new it would cure my acne and when I looked at the ingredients it was salicylic acid and BP. Do they really think I haven't tried about a bazillion products with those ingredients (or that I want to pay twice as much to get it from clinique). and it was like every other day when that came out that someone bugged me to try it. People without acne just don't understand the genetic component of it. My dad had it really bad until he was 30 and so I probably will too, thats only 7 more years.

My grandfather: "Michael what happened?" (pointing to my infected area)

The meanest is probably when people are ignorant. My roommates are consistently telling me to stop putting so much stuff on my face which gets on my nerves, or telling me I have more facial products than a girl haha. It was funny at first but it gets to you.

man...i've heard em ALLLLL...just trust me when i tell you

"hey, lets connect the dots on his face"

"wow, its pizza boy!"

"looks like you put glue on your face and fell in some rocks"

"what's that on your face" (my 4 year old cousin)

"did you get burnt?"

"HES GOT AIDS ON HIS FACE!"

"wow sam, you have a herpe head"

they would call me "bumpy mcgee" (lmao @ that one), "pimples mcpimply", "dothead"

i would HATE going to school...but i played football and ran track so those two things are what kept me going.

As much as the mean stuff people said bugged me, it was the false sincerity that I hated the most.

Pretty much all or my friends and family starting talking like "oh your skin looks so much better, it's so great, blah blah blah" as soon as they found out I was on tane. And it bugged me, because I was blatantly in the middle of the IB, so they were all lying.

Though I will admit that when the popular pretty chick who's dating one of my guy friends informed me that "you'll never get a guy looking like that you know. You should use like proactive or something before people outside the school see you" I kinda wanted to kill her.

"UUUUEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWH, bro, that cracka has herpes!"

What I notice is that women tend to the worst critics.

1) I remember being called scar face by a friend who thought it would be funny to be sarcastic about my skin.

2) Someone in my class talked about how on Extreme Makeover, she saw a woman who had bad skin and maybe I should look into seeing what they used on her. What else...

3) A grandma on a bus stared at me for 30 minutes then told me that I was such a pretty girl but I need to do something about my skin then she proceeded to sift through her purse to find the name of her dermatologist.

4) Just a month ago, a woman I didn't know at my work at stopped me to say that glycerin works really well on skin.

I could go on... It perplexes me how anyone would dare to talk to someone they don't know about acne. It's equivalent to me going up to someone overweight and telling them that eating well/exercising will make them less fat. Honestly. Even with the best intentions, talking to anyone about their health is rude and quite frankly none of their business.

"I could never see myself with a chick whose face looks like a pizza."

"he'd be ok if he didn't have scars" Overheard this @ the mall

My 10 year old brother said "looks like you have boils all over your face" in church in front of my cousins, i laughed while trying extremely hard to hold back the tears.

My aunt said "you haven't been doing what I told you, huh?" She had some wacked out regime that did NOTHING.

When people give me advice sucks too because it just proves to me that it's so noticeable that people feel the need to say something.

What hurts the most is when people's eyes wander around my face while I'm trying to talk to them.

I could go on... It perplexes me how anyone would dare to talk to someone they don't know about acne. It's equivalent to me going up to someone overweight and telling them that eating well/exercising will make them less fat. Honestly. Even with the best intentions, talking to anyone about their health is rude and quite frankly none of their business.

Ahaha! Oh wow...I have NEVER thought of it that way...wow you are so right!!! The nerve of people!!! Health is a VERY personal thing... I will make sure to remind people of that whenever I am searching for something to say...

P.S. In response to a post: My best friend (guy) got a girlfriend like a month ago and I was a bit jealous because he wouldn't have as much time for me anymore. I guess he took the jealousy thing as me "liking" him. And he told me No offense but I can't see us together. I made sure he knew my (absent) intentions, but deep down I was wondering, Why?

It's a strange one with me. I go to a very cultured, disciplined private school, which actually looks a lot like Hogwarts, and everyone is empathic and just generally nice enough not to even mention acne to me. Even "your face has cleared up" is out of bounds. Actually, I'm pretty sure nobody has ever mentioned acne the entire 6 months I've been studying there, and my face was in a terrible state when I joined in September.

However, like quite a lot of people on these boards, it's been young children and little girls who've caused offence regarding my complexion. Not brats either, often rather nice, well-behaved kids who suspected I had some form of short-lived rash. One girl who I babysit chose to say "What's wrong with your face? Have you been in a fight? It looks really bad. I hope it's not contageous." It wasn't meant to be nasty, but it really got me, especially as her Dad cringed ineffably.

The worst of all comments I've ever received, and I'd be willing to bet one of the worst comments anyone has received on their acne, came from a tedious twat and barstool bore of a stand-up comedian, who was so bigoted that he decided to dedicate an entire hour of his 'performance' to mocking me on the basis of my complexion. He said things like, "I'm only taking the piss because I'm jealous of you, mate. I'm jealous of you for your age. I'm not jealous of your skin." and other comments like "You know, I'll wash my coat when I get home. You obviously don't know much about washing." and they were the tasteful ones. Eventually, he just started asking very personal and hurtful questions, like "Do many people think you're ugly?" and "Have you not lost your virginity because you're covered in spots?"

I'm a very pacific guy but he's honestly the only man I would ever wish death upon. However, to look on the bright side, I suppose it's moments like that one that really cause you to cure yourself. I'd have felt destroyed, had I tried everything but I did a lot of research after the comedy night and found out about BeautySkin light and after ten weeks my face is so much better. I'll never thank the comedian for the unforgivable twattery he showed me but I'd be lying if I never admitted that it was possibly the turning-point to clearer skin.

"Damn, it looks like a frog pissed on your face".

lol I think that might have been when I had my initial breakout from Differin. It's crazy because I remember it was pretty bad, I just don't remember myself making a big deal about it, and looking at myself in the mirror a lot. But I do remember crying once from how bad it looked. I had a bunch of indented scars forming on the side of my face that I never had before, but luckily they filled back up overtime, after the initial breakout went away.

when i first started getting acne in 8th grade i was 13. this one kid said to me i had a pimple patch or garden, cant remember which, on my forehead. then later that day this girl i was talking to and liked at the time said, oh i heard ..... said u have a pimple patch or garden. i was like what the fuck this kid is talking about this shit even when im not there.

but a few years later i went to a different high school, but somehow one day i seen the kid and he had worst acne then me. oh man that felt good, that bastard.