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Well I haven't had too many mean things said to me...no one outside of my family has ever commented on my acne (it got pretty severe at a point) which made me feel better...but my brother used to say "You have a bump on your forehead" then he would actually poke it. He did that a couple times, until he got acne worse than mine... then my aunt put her hands around my face and said "ooh, let me look at your face! What happened? Oh, it's just some acne, huh?" OH I was SO embarrassed. She said it in front of everyone. And my mom and dad would say things like "You don't need chocolate, it might make you break out" or "we need to get your face cleared up." ....and now that my face has cleared, my mom uses me as an example to my little brother "If you washed your face, it would look better! Look at Sierra's face. It's healed...or pretty much healed" (I still have PIH)
Guy i haven't met in 3 months: What the fuck happened to ya face?
Good thing he's a super nerd and have zero game with the ladies.. haha
I KNOW PEOPLE SAY SUCK IT UP AND DONT GIVE A FUCK BUT WE ARE HUMANS WE ARE NOT ROBOTS ..IT HURTS REALLY BAD WHEN PEOPLE MAKE COMMENTS...
ONE COMMENT I GOT WAS .....EWWW IS THAT A DISEASE..IS IT CONTAGIOUS...RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS...AND THE WORST PART IS THAT ..THIS STARTED 2 MONTHS AGO...I USE TO BE OUTGOING HAD MAD FRIENDS....GIRLS WERE ON MY SHIT....NOW NOBODY LIKES ME....I ONLY HAVE ONE FRIEND THAT IS VERY SUPPORTIVE..AND ONE DAY I WILL THANK HIM FOR THIS. BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ALOT OF PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT YOU..
O AND YEAH...EVEN MY TEACHER AT SCHOOL CALLED ME OUT IN FRONT OF THE CLASS AND CALLED ME TO HER DESK AND ASKED ME WAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE.....THAN EVERY NOW AND THAN SHE BE LIKE ..YOUR FACE LOOKS BETTER IN FRONT OF MAD PEOPLE..LIKE SHUT THE FUCK UP BITH YOUR EMBARRASING ME...I ACT LIKE I DONT GIVE A FUCK AT SCHOOL..BUT WHEN I GET HOME I START CRYING LIKE A PUZZY....BUT I LEAST I DIDNT CRY AT SCHOOL...
theres so many, i think my favorite is back when i was in high school some girl asked the teacher if he knew any thing that can help prevent acne (she had flawless skin and no one else in the class had acne) because she would never be seen in public with nasty skin like some people do and everyone turned and looked at me....then she followed with because its so disgusting who would want to be with someone who looks like that
Oh I am so sorry to hear that. That girl is a b*tch and life will come back and bite her in the butt one day if it already hasn't.
i just keep surprising you everyday don't I leon?
and c'mon now, POW! KAPLUT!.. etc... all classic superhero lines, any human in their right mind would say them!
Violence is not the answer. It is an option. A very good one for some people.
Hmm mean acne comments:
1. Why do you have bug bites all over your face? (she was my 4 year old neighbor and was adorable so I actually found it cute...even though at three years of age, I was appalled by the idea of even giving another person so much as a dirty look)
2. An aunt of mine randomly grabbed my face in mid-conversation and loudly said "Oh my God. You have acne? I never noticed! How long have you had acne? Wow you do have acne." Thanks a lot. I went into the shower and cried about it for like half an hour.
3. My ex "BFF" would always stare at me during Proactiv commercials. She would even not-so-sincerely suggest acne products whenever ads for them came on TV.
4. This one was from my 10 year old sister and her best friend when I was 15 during a Proactiv commercial (don't you hate those?) [Mind you, my parents uphold the "I don't care if they are choking you, If you hit your little siblings, I will hit you" rule]:
First, they both turn and stare at me. "Hey look, Proactiv. you could use a bottle or two." Her friend says, "It worked well for my sister". My sister (who is 5' 3'' and 113 lbs while only 10!) says, "You know, you had better get that nose job soon." NOBODY was supposed to know that I was going to get one.
Then she follows me into the kitchen (her lair...that gluttonous giant) and says, "You are really ugly. Your acne looks HUGE and disgusting. You need all the Proactiv you can get!" I swear I almost burst out into tears right then and there. Instead I called her "double chin", calmly walked upstairs, and told my mum.
You know what she did? She said, "Oh well you probably started it." THEN she went downstairs and asked them what happened mentioning that "she was crying!" (which made my sister and her friend giggle afterward). My sister said "She called me a double-chin!". THEN my mum believed her as usual and punished me- saying, "I would ground you, but you have no life. So what can I do to punish you?" and proceeded to confiscate my phone and record player (yes, record player) for a month.
Yes, my life really is this sad. 
and c'mon now, POW! KAPLUT!.. etc... all classic superhero lines, any human in their right mind would say them!
Violence is not the answer. It is an option. A very good one for some people.
Hmm mean acne comments:
1. Why do you have bug bites all over your face? (she was my 4 year old neighbor and was adorable so I actually found it cute...even though at three years of age, I was appalled by the idea of even giving another person so much as a dirty look)
2. An aunt of mine randomly grabbed my face in mid-conversation and loudly said "Oh my God. You have acne? I never noticed! How long have you had acne? Wow you do have acne." Thanks a lot. I went into the shower and cried about it for like half an hour.
3. My ex "BFF" would always stare at me during Proactiv commercials. She would even not-so-sincerely suggest acne products whenever ads for them came on TV.
4. This one was from my 10 year old sister and her best friend when I was 15 during a Proactiv commercial (don't you hate those?) [Mind you, my parents uphold the "I don't care if they are choking you, If you hit your little siblings, I will hit you" rule]:
First, they both turn and stare at me. "Hey look, Proactiv. you could use a bottle or two." Her friend says, "It worked well for my sister". My sister (who is 5' 3'' and 113 lbs while only 10!) says, "You know, you had better get that nose job soon." NOBODY was supposed to know that I was going to get one.
Then she follows me into the kitchen (her lair...that gluttonous giant) and says, "You are really ugly. Your acne looks HUGE and disgusting. You need all the Proactiv you can get!" I swear I almost burst out into tears right then and there. Instead I called her "double chin", calmly walked upstairs, and told my mum.
You know what she did? She said, "Oh well you probably started it." THEN she went downstairs and asked them what happened mentioning that "she was crying!" (which made my sister and her friend giggle afterward). My sister said "She called me a double-chin!". THEN my mum believed her as usual and punished me- saying, "I would ground you, but you have no life. So what can I do to punish you?" and proceeded to confiscate my phone and record player (yes, record player) for a month.
Yes, my life really is this sad.
theres so many, i think my favorite is back when i was in high school some girl asked the teacher if he knew any thing that can help prevent acne (she had flawless skin and no one else in the class had acne) because she would never be seen in public with nasty skin like some people do and everyone turned and looked at me....then she followed with because its so disgusting who would want to be with someone who looks like that
Oh I am so sorry to hear that. That girl is a b*tch and life will come back and bite her in the butt one day if it already hasn't.
yeah she was a bitch she would always do stuff like that....i hated school....because of girls like her when we had to to work in groups or pairs no one would pair with me "/ unless the teachers MADE them and then they would just talk to the other groups and wouldn't work with me anyways....i really wish i had finished high school and gone to prom....instead i dropped out junior year and barely at 20 did i "finish" high school....
That's awful. I know how that feels -the exclusion. I didn't have acne so much in middle school, but I was really shy and some girls were just awful. On my first day of high school (I am a sophomore right now) I only knew one person...my GORGEOUS and super confident friend. Everybody came up and introduced themselves to her and completely ignored me and even tried to form a circle and push me out so they could focus on my friend. One of the horrible girls (there were super-nice popular ones too, but I am just talking about the mean ones), when introducing herself to us, shook my friend's hand, asked her what her name was, and practically interrogated her for information about what school she came from. When she turned to me, she said in a disgusted voice, "Hi." and shook my hand so it felt like I was holding a floppy fish.
Some people....
I'm pretty sure I had a face almost as bad as anyone's at one point...my gallery can verify that...
Maybe it's because I'm a guy, but I've never had a bad social experience with acne other than those caused my own insecurity. No one's ever mentioned it, or focused on it, and it's never stopped people from talking/flirting with me or anything, even when I looked like Freddy Krueger.
I just can't believe there are almost 1,700 posts in here. Makes me feel pretty lucky to have never experienced any of this.
I just wrote about this in another post, but here it is again:
When I was at my college graduation, my best friend's mother said to me "You used to be so pretty, what happened? You're ugly now!" She never even congratulated me on graduating-- all she noticed was my skin.
That hurt more than anything. I immediately felt like crying, and as soon as I left the graduation reception, I did.
*Hug* That is so sad. What kind of a mother would say that? She was probably just bitter because you were starting your young life while she is just a crusty old wh*re. You are NOT ugly.
The worst thing someone said to me was "Your sister is so pretty, what happened to you". My sister and I are 11 months apart. She has perfect skin. In fact, everyone in my family has perfect skin. I don't know why I am the only one that has been afflicted with this disease.
In retrospect, I am (or used to be) quite a loud guy, who got into a lot of arguments. As soon as I got acne, people hit me with this and ended the argument every time. I have had literally hundreds, maybe thousands, of brutal comments relating to my skin/appearance. A lot of people have called me ugly. I assume this is mainly because of my skin as no-one ever called me it before acne, but I could just have a bad face. Then again quite a few people have said I'm good looking when seeing me from a distance, in photos or in bad light. Anyway here's a few:
- 'Oh my god. What happened to your face?' sisters best friend, literally the first day I woke up with acne
- 'Fucking hell...you need a dermatologist
- When I was about 14, a group of people who I was friends with coined the nickname 'rice pudding boy' for me after I started getting bad acne. Needless to say, didn't stay friends for long.
- Member of above group once said, for no reason, 'can you just fuck off. I literally feel sick looking at you'.
- Can i play dot-to-dot on your face? Random person at school.
- I once said to my friend 'I'm going to win' whilst playing poker. He replied, 'you're one of the ugliest people I';ve seen. How does that make you win?'. Absolute humiliation at a full table of people.
- Was arguing with my Dad, aged 15. I made a point, he got really annoyed, then said 'well you're ugly'. When your own dad says it, that's when you know it's true.
- Another time dad says, 'it would help if you wash your face sometimes you know' with no provocation, and a lookg of genuine disgust on his face. I was 14.
- Arguing with my sister, she turns and says, 'yeah well you're really ugly cos uv got loads of spots'.
- Talking to my sister at home. She says 'my friend saw you at school today. She said you're really ugly because of your spots.' Why the fuck she told me this I have no idea.
- Gran randomly says to me, at a crowded family gathering, 'well you may feel hard done by with the rest of your face, but at least you have decent hair'. Then laughs.
- Looking in a mirror with a friend. I say 'we have similar shaped faces'. He inexplicably replies 'yeah...except I'm not horribly scarred'.
- Dad says 'whats happened today? you looked good last night? Oh wait, I suppose that was dark light'.
- headteacher walks into classroom, im about 15. He looks around, then says 'ah here we are. the good., the bad and the ugly. then looks at me and laughs. Everyone else in the room laughs at me'. This is possibly the worst one.
- Arrive at uni. Within a few days I find out a girl has given me the nickname 'blenderface'. A few days into a new beginning and we're back to the start again.
My attitude now is 'the next person to insult my appearance/skin is going to die'.
No one has ever really said anything but watching peoples' eyes scan over my face is just as demeaning to me. I'm sure people would think I'm crazy for being that sensitive.
We all have our battles. This just happens to be ours. The biggest problem is that when battling acne you don't get exempt from the other battles. Relationships, career, dreams etc etc. You just have to fight them with less confidence and a warped self image.
But so be it. These are the cards I'm dealt. These are the cards I'll play.
girlfriend in 8th grade telling me "awww sweet heart your chin is breaking out"( she is now 18, pregnant, married and not going to school while I now have a clear face, am attending college, no kids, and am a volunteer firefighter/emt.)
mom warning me to "be careful with that medicine your face is turning red" reffering to accutane.... like there is a safe way to accutane
"why are your lips so dry man wind chaffing?" - friend in the fire academy (dry lips are an accutane side effects) and wtf is wind chaffing anyone know?
Somehow I've managed to be spared from any real ridicule over my acne, even what it was absolutely horrendously bad in high school (Big, Cystic lumps all over my face).
The worst I've gotten was people either asking me why my acne is so bad or saying stuff like "Hey Rudolph" when I had a big zit on my nose.
Just childish stuff.
I count myself lucky. Kids can be friggin' evil bastards.
I Fucken Hate Acne.
Stuff Said.
"Aw you're too obsessed over your looks its just skin" JUST SKIN? well if you had to go through what i go through you'd feel pretty shit too Dickhead.
"You should wash your face with lemon juice/do facials/see a dermotologist"
Hate when ppl with PERFECT SKIN try to give you advice on how to rid your acne such as
"Have you tried PROACTIV?"
First of all, im so sorry for bloody people being so damn cruel to you guys. Acne sucks and people suck even more sometimes...
I havent really been teased anything bad, but sometimes the smallest of comments can be the worst. The ones I remember:
When I was about 13 or 14, my dad saying to me, infront of my sister while we were all happily playing N64 (!!) "Jeez Cass, your face looks really bad" Thats it. =/ Like, what am I supposed to say to that???? Thanks for reminding me?? I just said "I know" while going even redder im sure. Atleast my sister stuck up for me and told him not to say that. It really hurt though.
Then one time, same age, that same sister and I were fighting and she says to me as a last comment "well atleast I dont have pimples on my back!" and walked off. Like, yay thanks sis!
I remember after I asked my mum to take me to the drs for my skin, which took SO MUCH guts, I heard her talking about me with sister saying stuff like, "i dont know what she thinks shes going to get blah blah". I dont even wonder what she was thinking...
A while after, we were eating dinner with 2 sisters, I was about 16 by now and also my mums boyfriend who I think hated me and I hated. Mum says over the table " Have you been putting on the cream we got from the doctors??" Good GOD I was embarrassed! I must have been bright fricken red. I hated her for that.
Mostly I hate how people tell me when they have a zit, or how much they hate pimples (usually they have like.. oo i dunno, ONE?!) Its like they think they are making me feel better by pointing out their own pittiful acne... Its not nice, its embarrassing. Like im the goto acne girl. Yay for me.