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i hated it when talking to me ppl stared my acne!!! it was so uncomfortable (it still is tho now i only hav scars)
then one day one of my classmate asked "doesn't it feel awkward while washing ur face?" i knew wht she was referring to , ie the bumps n pimples i had , there was no smooth patch on my face back then!!!
at a wedding , one of my aunt asked " wht happened??" as if she had never seen acne ever.. my reply was " this is acne" , she replied " why don't u do something abt it?" hahahha wasn't i doing anything??? really??? 
"if only, u didn't hav these pimples" , y not even i wud love it !!!!
but worst was when my best friend at last asked me to do something abt it!! well i know how helpless i was .
acne really puts-off ur spirits when ppl remind u abt it i wish all ppl get a lil taste of the trauma , never wud anyone dare to comment!!
I was going to the store when a guy in my parallell class, whom I've never talked to, said: "Hey, you ugly fuck!" I was completely shocked. Didn't know that a nineteen year old guy would say something like this.
Another time when I was on my way to school, there was a couple of people passing me on their bicycles. One of them said: "Check out that ugly fucker!" And all of them looked at me. I continued walking and staring down at the ground. I just felt like putting a shotgun to my head and blow it off.
A guy was standing with some girls at the exit, and I had to go past them. "OMG you are ugly," he said to me.
In addition, my brother constantly used to call me things when he got mad at me. For example: "You ugly rat face!"
It wasn't intentional, but I was at a picnic social, and a friend of mine who I hadn't seen in a while came up to me, looked at me a minute and asked, ''Woah! Did you get bitten by something? You need to check your face in the mirror...it looks like you're having a really bad reaction to something." Of course I turn to a friend next to me and ask him if he noticed anything strange, and his only response was (and he wasn't trying to be cruel either), "It doesn't look any worse than usual."
But I always feel the worst when I'm cuddling up with my mate, and he's looking at me, and he reaches out and touches my face, and I can feel his fingers moving with morbid curiosity over my pimples. I always jerk away really hard, and it startles him. How can he even touch that?
The thing i hate most besides comments is when people stare , i mean you dont have to look at them to know their staring but you can see them in your periph ect. Its also annoying when they talk behind ur back.
This one time i remember i was in my lunch hall eating and this bunch of first years sat down on the table next to us and one looked over , looked back to his mate. They start giggling and one goes " *cough*clearasil*cough* " . I mean what the hell does he know. Clearasil wont do pancakes for my face , thats stuffs only for blackheads and such.
If you ever hear people commenting about ur acne or bad mouthing you or being assholes just think. The moment they do , that makes you a hell a lot of a better person than they are and labels them as ignorant and immature. Remember , you can fix your acne but they will be stupid and ignorant for the rest of their lives. Dont hate them , pity them.
Wow, some of these are very harsh. I have to agree that the worst thing are the looks and the way people act around you, and though I've never been unfortunate enough to have anyone outright say something horrible, children will be honest and it can sting. My 6-year-old niece whom I adore said, "Why is your face like that?" After I tried to explain and she eventually got over it, it sort of stuck with me through the rest of the day.
In the same way, I think older relatives often say things not because they want to be hurtful, but because they are genuinely trying to help or understand. They just don't realize that it's hurtful and uncomfortable. And it makes sense for relatives to point it out in a way, because unlike random people in school or on the street they have a deeper connection to your well-being, even if they don't realize how tactless and possibly hurtful they're being.
Someone once shouted "look, she has chicken pox". I laughed at the time but when I went home and thought about it, I felt pretty upset. Good job I didn't show that I was upset at the time though I guess.
Another time, I was out shopping and some little kid pointed at me and said "big, red spot" or something like that and the mum just laughed. People these days eh.
Someone already mentioned how they hate it when people say "your skin's clearing up" or whatever. I hate that too. I know they're trying to be nice (I think) but it makes me feel like they pay close attention to the state of my face and feel they need to comment. It just makes me embarrassed and think about my acne more.
Glad to see that people go through the same torment as me though! Thank God for this site!
My cousin who is like 6 years old or younger made a comment on my red marks. I was walking and he said ugly and what's with my face? 
I just laughed about it because he was still innocent about acne but to be honest, I wished that day that he would suffer from acne as well and I seriously wanted to buried him alive. 
Also, some of my friends making fun of me because of my acne. I didn't said anything back because I wasn't in the mood but how I wished that I said something harsh as well. One time, I was frustrated about myself because of the acne and I made a promise to myself that whoever made some snide remarks about my acne, will definitely get some tongue lashing in return or will suddenly experience a physical pain courtesy by me.
When I was in 7th grade, my friend's neighbor called me "Clearasil girl" 
A few summers ago, I was babysitting a 5 year old boy. We were swimming, so my make up had come off, and he asked something along the lines of "what are those red things on your face?". I simply told him that it's called "acne" and a lot of people get it. He said "oh yeah, my mom gets those sometimes too".
Since then, no one has said anything about it (to my face, at least). Then again, I won't go out of the house without make up 
I work with ppl with learning disabilties so like children they know no diff so at first will just broadly come out with.. " You've a rash or something on your cheeks,You going or been to the doctor". - in mind one being very repetitive lady hearin it for like half hour ](*,) zzzzzz
But other than that only ever been one ocassion. Yet try this for a one timer chat up!!...
In bar walking through a certain area noticing couple ov lads starin hard eyeing me up. Im getting my drink, One walks over.
lll get you that drink.. n starts... Me and my mate just been admiring you blah blah blah argued who was gona come over blah blah blah during compliment pass's something about my skin not being so perfect but makes no difference to him like!!
Laughing I go "You got a girl????"
No he replies
" Wonder why" 🙄 and trots off.
lmao good for you! hope that fucker went bright red with embarrassment! 
I remember talking to my mum about this girl I liked, god knows why, I think she sensed it. Anyway, I was whining that I'm not good enough for her because of my face and my mum said, "nice girls won't care about your looks, they will like you for who you are." I know what she is getting at, but it just made me think that my own mother thinks I'm ugly. Sometimes the not so direct things are harsher.
Some kid at school also (who was a sort of friend, one that you just hang around with in the lesson because he's in the same class etc). He used to look at my face, then on his own face, poke and make like popping spot sounds on his face, trying to imitate all the big ones I currently had.
The worssst thing, was when I was in my first year of uni and I had flu. I went to the supermarket to buy some lemsip and I felt so bad, like I was gonna pass out, at the time my acne was really bad so I must of looked so bad. Basically, these two chavs girls walked past and one was like, "eugh he's covered in spots" and then squirted some of her water bottle on my face lol?? Like what the hell, I know it was bad, but it wasn't hurrendous. Jeez. I almost cried when I got back in my room (pathetic), but it affected me for the next month of social interactions with everyone, constantly thinking about how bad I look.
ok this is not gonna sound really bad buutt ....
boy in class "whats that on your face?" i didnt even have hardly any spots on my face!
me "what?"
boy "omg!"
friend laughs
me "what????" getting fustrated and embarrassed
boy "its a red thing"
i knew what was coming
boy" eurrrghh its a spot!" well DUHHH!!!!!
dickead 
i had someone who has perfect skin, who was in the process of getting a pimple. he obviously didnt want that one on his face, comes out of the bathroom and asks if i have any acne cream on me that he could use. there were 2 other ppl in the room who have clear skin. just was very awkward.
Reading through some of the posts here, has reminded me of the general ignorance and tactlessness of alot of people. Up until recently I was a very jaded and hate-filled individual because of it, but for some reason recently, I just realised that its alot easier and better to just ignore it and to just try and concentrate on myself. It's alot less stressful for one and personally I've become alot happier not caring what the odd idiot thinks.
I've had my fair share of shit over the years, I can definitely relate to what some of you have written. Probably the worse being in my early teens (at my skins worse coincidently). Where random people at my school felt obliged to tell me just how bad my skin was (very nice of them). The usual "uurrhh"s and looks of pure digust followed, which tore into me like a knife.
I suppose one of the most vivid memories, was when a chav girl amongst her friends walked up to me and called me 'digusting' to my face. The resulting laughter was like she had told the funniest joke in the world. (Karma btw owned her ass later on, when she became seriously ill. It's bad I know, but one of the first things I thought of, was that one moment, and how this was some form of divine payback)
I look back at those times now, and wish I had the balls to actually give them shit back. I however clammed up and shyed away from adversity, what little self-esteem I possessed in my early insecure teen years had long since been eroded at that point.
But it's all water under the bridge now I guess, and in a strange way I suppose has made me some what more resilient, not to mention more compassionate to people in general. Oh, and the last person to try anything on me (which was quite a while ago now tbh) got a nice healthy whack and some verbal 're-education'. So I guess I'm sort of over it, although some of the mental scars still exist and I haven't yet come to terms with.
1. This one person who is the mom of an old friend of mine and she works where my mom works. I was walking into a building and I happened to see her (and I hadn't seen her in a long time) so I smiled and waved. All she did was give me this appalled look as if she'd just seen the devil or something. I saw her a couple times throughout the day and every time she just stared at me. At the end of the day she and a bunch of other people that work with my mom as well as my mom and I were going out somewhere together and she says (in the middle of the whole group when she could have easily asked me the 5 times she saw me earlier when no one was around):
"I don't want to embarrass you, but did you have the chicken pox?"
"no"
"Is that acne?!?"
"Yes.."
"Oh, too bad. You used to be so pretty."
Then everyone in the group started awkwardly talking about how it'll clear up some day and I should see a derm. It was so embarrassing for me. I never talk to that woman anymore.
2. I was volunteering at a nursing home with my Girl Scout troop and we were playing bingo with all the people there. The woman I was paired with says:
"How old are you?"
"13"
"Oh, you shouldn't have that much acne at your age. That's really weird. Do you wash your face?"
"Yes.."
"Oh, you probably eat to many sweets."
-Silence from me-
"You should see a dermatologist about it, it looks awful."
I don't blame her because she was a little old lady, and they tend to be pretty blunt and honest about things like that. Plus, she was probably just trying to help. But it was pretty embarrassing because it was in front of my whole troop.
3. There was a rumor going around about me that I supposedly made out with some guy. (of course I had done no such thing) I later learned that the guy's friends had said something about his acne (he had a little around his mouth) and he had explained that he got it by making out with me. I've never even talked to the guy..
4. A girl invited me to her birthday party. For her birthday, we went to some place where they put makeup on you for free and then try to get you to buy it. Anyway, the lady put mine on (I never wear makeup by the way) and then the girl who invited me said
"You look so much better now. Why don't you buy that makeup? You should."
5. Guys would fake ask me out sometimes because they thought it was funny. So now days if someone asks me out, I never know if it's for real.
6. I was talking to some guy online and all of the sudden he said "You need Atkins" That's actually a weight loss thing, but I was super skinny so I know he wasn't talking about that. I think he meant acutane ( Idk how to spell it).
7. One of my friends was saying how she hated her brother's acne. (he had a little tiny bit on his chin) She thought it was so ugly and she just wanted him to go away, she didn't ever want to look at him. That was hurtful to me because I have it much worse than he did and all over my face. She and I aren't friends anymore. Nowadays she has awful acne too.
8. I was shopping with some friends. Basically they ended up turning a shopping trip into an attempt to give me some sort of makeover. They were trying to find me some foundation (even though I don't wear it..) and there was a choice between anti-acne and anti-wrinkle. They picked the anti-wrinkle one for me. They were trying to be polite, but I hate it when people just avoid the subject.
9. One friend -"You should get bangs."
Another friend- "Yeah, they would look really good"
First friend (whispers to second friend)- "At least they would cover up some of her face."
10. A friend was telling me about an outing she went on with another one of my friends and a couple guys who were also my "friends" (but really were only nice to me because I was friends with the girls) She told me how the guys were rating different girls on a scale from one to ten. She said they gave her a 9 and my other friend a 10 and a bunch of other people 8's and 9's and 10's. Then she said "do you want to know what you got?"
"sure.."
"Are you sure.."
"It doesn't matter to me."
"okay if you insist, you got a 3."
I was actually expecting something like a 1 or a 0 or -5 or something, so it was almost an ego boost. But it was also kind of sad because it would have been nice if it had at least been a 5 or something. It doesn't really matter though.
11. I had a friend in elementary school that moved away. Later in middle school, one of my friends who was in track saw him at a track meet. I asked her how he is and stuff. All she said was ‚Å“He has a bunch of acne now. It looks really gross and ugly. You two should hook up.‚ I think that was just plain rude.
Basically, I've gotten all those "Don't you wash your face?" "You should try ______" "You need to see a derm." etc. Those don't hurt as much as the looks. When people stare at you, or when people avoid looking at you. Or when people don't bother to talk to you or try to make friends with you. As if having acne makes you some horrible person that would be an awful friend. It also is really annoying when people who have near-perfect skin complain to me about a little zit. And of course, you always know people talk about you and ur acne behind your back. Luckily I've never been insulted right to my face, but I've hear people say things to each other about me. It would be nice to switch roles for a bit. Me have clear skin and all those people who make fun of people with acne would get awful breakouts. That would be great.. 
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It also really annoys me when people just write it off as puberty. For me it's genetic and I'll probably have it my whole life. I've had it since 4th/5th grade. It's also so awkward when you're watching TV with people and a proactive or clearisil or differen or one of those bogus ads comes on. Usually I'm the only one in the room who has acne, it gets kind of quiet and people glance at me. Sometimes people say "Have you tried that yet?"
I once got the courage to ask my mom to take me to a derm, but she refused to (because we were low on money and I didn't need it.) At the time I had bad facial breakouts and moderate body acne. Years later (when we had even less money) she offered to take me to a derm (after letting my acne get worse and worse, it's probably to the point where I could never get clear and I'll definitely never be rid of the scars.)
Lastly, I went to a doctor for an checkup. The doctor gave me some prescription antibiotics for my acne. (didn't work and on the bottle I read that one of the possible results of using it was death) My mom mentioned that I had some acne on my back too. Without even looking at it, the doctor said, lots of girls have a little acne on their back it's nothing. If she had looked she would have seen it was a lot more than a little and she probably would have recommended a derm.
The last couple aren't really things people have said about my acne. They're just things people have done that really make me angry about the way people who don't have acne think of acne.
I went to this esthitician for a while.
The first time I ever saw her she said "Don't worry, we will have your face looking beautiful again in no time."
I know she meant well, but that was one of the most hurtful things I've been told.
For a while I had this roomate who got like one pimple a month and would make a HUGE deal about it, saying how horrible her skin was when she knew that I was right beside her with a full face of cystic acne.
To me, that's like being 115 pounds and calling yourself fat in front of someone that is overweight.
You just don't do that shit.
Starting school again soon, hoping it goes better than last year. I never had a comment made right to me, but I've definately had some weird looks in the past. I had the chicken pox comment a long time ago, seems like a common one. My friends used to joke about me, but they were actually pretty light on me looking back. My friend actually offered me his proactive thing once, but he was seriously trying to help me out, not joking. Guess im pretty lucky to have friends like that.
- People walking by and stopping randomly, stare and then shout "Damn! You're so fucking ugly!", then they laugh and walk away.
That sounds horrible, cant imagine why someone would want to say that to someone else.