The worst I had was probably walking to school, I was maybe 14-15yrs old. There was this one guy who walked in the opposite direction to me (to go the boy's school, other end of the road), who I walked past regularly. He always came out with comments like "you have some f*****g bad acne", and a couple of times went for my eyes with deodorant / body sprays.

I also had a girl say to me "oh my god, what happened to your face?!". She sounded genuinely concerned for me...

Mine was when a woman (in her 20's) asked me if i had herpes. I was breaking out very bad on my chin that day. I knew the woman but i wasnt friends with her.

I haven't had a TON of nasty comments made, but I'll remember these forever.

1) I'm changing my shirt in front of my BFF. We're twelve. Her: Oh my God, you can get those on your back too? Ugh!

2) I'm at my friend's cosmetics party. We're twenty. The makeup girl had us all wash our faces to try her face cream. My skin was pretty okay that week so I decided just to get over my insecurities and join in. Then, when we got to the makeup part, she pointed to me, used me as an example of "problem skin" and gave me a concealer to try, then looked at everyone else and said, "Well, no one else needs that, so let's move on."

3) Lunch table. I'm fourteen. Guy across the table: "You're f*cking ugly. You have zits everywhere. You look like your brother. If you cut your hair off, you'd look just like him." (My brother's acne was cystic and worse than mine has ever been.) Like, what the hell, random guy I don't know? I never did anything to you. By the way, he was fat. Should have told him that.

I haven't had a TON of nasty comments made, but I'll remember these forever.

 

1) I'm changing my shirt in front of my BFF. We're twelve. Her: Oh my God, you can get those on your back too? Ugh!

 

2) I'm at my friend's cosmetics party. We're twenty. The makeup girl had us all wash our faces to try her face cream. My skin was pretty okay that week so I decided just to get over my insecurities and join in. Then, when we got to the makeup part, she pointed to me, used me as an example of "problem skin" and gave me a concealer to try, then looked at everyone else and said, "Well, no one else needs that, so let's move on."

 

3) Lunch table. I'm fourteen. Guy across the table: "You're f*cking ugly. You have zits everywhere. You look like your brother. If you cut your hair off, you'd look just like him." (My brother's acne was cystic and worse than mine has ever been.) Like, what the hell, random guy I don't know? I never did anything to you. By the way, he was fat. Should have told him that.

fucking TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!

reading all of this makes me wanna beat somone up.

luckily no one has never commenter about my skin before but if they did id punch them in the damn face and ruin them

in school i was constantly bombard with really meany things by classmates,

some of the girls said, that she would better die than get laid with such an ugly fuck.

such comments really made me to close from entire world, i actually didn't make any new friends for about 6 or 7 years. can you imagine that such mean comments and constant shit i heard made me suck at life?

Sixth Grade: I remember a classmate told me during 6th period that I wasn't worthy of being alive because I had severely cystic acne. Truly a sad day. I got over it by the time I got home though. It still makes me cringe to this day though. Ouch, man.

WOW, some of these things are truly nasty. As a male, not to many people commented on my acne. The last time I remember is when I was picking up some medication for my face at the pharmacist when a women at the counter looked at me and said "You should try proactive that stuff works"

But some of the comments you people are posting are just nasty. My sympathies to all of you.

I agree with JPak. I'm so sorry. I've never had people comment on my skin like that, but then again, I lived in a pretty small town with some of the nicest kids. My high school was not normal, there were no groups...everyone knew everyone...but, as a defense mechanism, I tended to stay quiet anyway. The more I kept to myself, the less chance people would talk to me, and then tease me.

People are so mean. How can people not understand? People who make fun of people with acne (and I also want to add people who are overweight too, because I feel it is a similar insecurity) are just, ignorant.

You know the most interesting comment I've ever heard about why people are so mean? It's that people are scared. People are scared because they know they could be them. A little twist of genetic makeup or misfortune can make them exactly what they tease. So, living in fear, they hate on people who are different because they represent their fears. Does that make sense?

4-5 months ago I was at work, when this random woman came up to me and said "Ohhh, why are you breaking out sooooo bad?"

And I tried to brush it off with a sarcastic little comment about "Because I'm just so filthy and I never wash my face" and turned to walk away, because I was pretty offended.

Then she grabbed my arm to stop me (I had been fixing a display on the wall, so I was basically cornered), and proceeded to give me a lecture about how I should scrub my face with salt water.

And get this...she thought she knew everything because she "watched a Dr. Oz dermatology special".

But I basically just stood there like a deer in headlights because I was so embarrassed and I didn't know what to say. I was just appalled that she thought it was ok to be so rude to me.

I mean, I understand these things happen in middle/high school because kids tend to be immature and nasty like that sometimes, but this woman was at least 35-40 acting like that in public. Ugh, some people never grow up.

4-5 months ago I was at work, when this random woman came up to me and said "Ohhh, why are you breaking out sooooo bad?"

And I tried to brush it off with a sarcastic little comment about "Because I'm just so filthy and I never wash my face" and turned to walk away, because I was pretty offended.

Then she grabbed my arm to stop me (I had been fixing a display on the wall, so I was basically cornered), and proceeded to give me a lecture about how I should scrub my face with salt water.

And get this...she thought she knew everything because she "watched a Dr. Oz dermatology special".

 

But I basically just stood there like a deer in headlights because I was so embarrassed and I didn't know what to say. I was just appalled that she thought it was ok to be so rude to me.

I mean, I understand these things happen in middle/high school because kids tend to be immature and nasty like that sometimes, but this woman was at least 35-40 acting like that in public. Ugh, some people never grow up.

Salt and water? Yeah, that'll work. What a f-cking moron.

I hate it when people recommend stupid remedies. They actually think they're being helpful.

The amount of times I've just wanted to rip my face off because of the emotional and physical pain of having acne.

I've never honestly had anything memorably cruel or rude said to my face about my acne. I mean, I've overheard people talking about my looks of course, who hasn't? One time in class this girl sitting behind me was talking to a boy and they were rating other girls on their appearance.

She asked him "Do you think Kate's pretty?" quite loudly so that I would hear.

He hesitated for a moment and then said "Err, she's okay."

I pretended I needed to go to the bathroom and then took 20 minutes trying to make myself look prettier. I realized then that people no longer considered me attractive because of my blatantly obvious acne and it hurt.

I know, minuscule in comparison to most people's experiences on here.

But really, it doesn't take much. It's bad enough knowing how you look, being reminded every day as you begin your regimen in front of the mirror in the morning and again in the evening, knowing it's in vain and that nothing is working, feeling the bumps on your face and the stinging as you apply the products, being reminded as you pile on the makeup because a mask of makeup is better than nothing.

You're cruel enough to yourself, you don't need anyone else to do it for you.

I didnt get acne until I was 21 so I never had to go through the horrors of school kids. The only comment I ever had was when my mom boyfriend asked me how I got these scars on the right side of my face. I told him it was acne scars and he thought it was an injury I got in Iraq.

1. When I was 16 and I mainly got pimples on my forehead and chin and they were rather small. I went to work as a lifeguard on the beach (summer job) and I had an opportunity to earn extra cash for working as a bartender in the evenings. After one months I was broken out with a lot of those small zits that had white/yellowish endings (I didn't squeeze them), a friend of mine said:

"How come did you get so many pimples?"

But then he added - maybe it's because you're not getting enough sleep? He was right - when I came back home and returned to my high school life with 8hrs of sleep/night my face got back to normal.

2. At 17 when I was terribly broken out on my cheeks (had cysts):

My grandfather: "What is it on your cheek?"

My mum: "Let's go to a beautician and have your face cleaned"

I replied that I ought to see a derm (I was on her insurance) and she said, ok. later - never took me to a derm

My friends and teachers would tell me to see a derm. I've never had a chance coz I was on my parents' insurance and they would have to take me to one. I would tell them and they would reply "later when we have time".

So I ended up with these hideous scars and at over 23 I got even skin tone but still with pitted scarring.

Ugh, I can actually think of a few. Most of which happened in grade 7 as I started getting zits the year before and was the only one in my elementary school with pimples.

This group of girls a year older would come up to me on the playground and point out my pimples to me. Make comments like "Eww, that's disgusting. Why don't you wear cover up or something. That's gross." This happened a few times from the same girls and another girl a year older would tell me stuff along the same lines.

A boy came up to me in 7th grade while I was in the middle of talking to friend and said "Do you shave your nose?" Obviously, I had quite a few blackheads on my nose. I turned around and said "Wtf, why would you ask a stupid question like that?" Months later he told me how hot I was and he had a crush on me for the longest time. Boys

Another girl commented to me and my friend that we could be a pizza. My friend who always has slightly red cheeks could be the sauce and my zits could be the pepperonis. Lmao sounds stupid now but at the time I was upset. I told her "Yeah, well at least we're not fat." So, immature.

And the last thing I can think of was in high school. I had begun wearing makeup at that point to "cover up" anything but I remember in grade 10 biology doing an assignment with friends. We were all sitting around and joking and I started doodling a picture of one of my friends and she started to laugh and said to the teacher "Hey, she's drawing pictures of me and making fun of me." We were all just messing around and so was she and I guess the teacher thought he was being funny too because he went to the chalkboard and drew a picture of me in front of the class. Suffice to say it was a stupid drawing, but the doodle included three little circles on the face for pimples. I was mortified. He also drew a picture of one of the boys in the class who was overweight but exaggerated it in the photo. My best friend turned to me and just said "Omg, that was not right at all." And I brushed it off like it was nothing.

I honestly forgot about that until I started this post but yeah, that was probably the worse. You don't do that someone, let alone a 16 year old girl

People making comments about something you can't help just pisses me off so bad. Like anyone REALLY wants to have zits all over their faces..like anyone would ever willingly choose to live that like.. I just wish that they could have zits too so they would know what it feels like. Then, I don't think they would make comments like I've read on this thread.

A few examples of things that have been said to me:

When I was in 6th grade.. I remember being in the bathroom and washing my hands.. Well there was a line behind me and one girl popped off, "what are those red dots all over your face". Everyone started laughing and they were all looking at me. I remember feeling so embarrassed and ashamed.. like you know..that empty feeling in your stomach. I just remember shrugging my shoulders and getting out of there as quickly as I could.

When I was in 7th grade I got into a fight with boy, I don't remember what it was over now.. but I just remember that he started saying "shut up zits", "shut up zits". You can imagine how bad that hurt.

Then when I was in 9th grade a GOOD friend of mine popped off to my sister, "you sure are getting prettier this year" (meaning that her skin was clearing up..) and then she turned to me and said.. "heh, you just look the same". CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THAT MADE ME FEEL? I was crushed. I remember having to get up and leave the classroom and go to the bathroom just to cry.

"I know just the thing for your acne! I had this really bad pimple one time, and it cleared it right up!"

--this said by a girl who probably has had a total of hmm..lets see... ONE pimple in her life.

another variation:"Have you tried proactive?"

why do people always think they know better than you?

In highschool when my skin was at it's worst, there was this guy I went on a couple of dates with. Well, we didn't really hit off and I told him I just wanted to be friends. His response was, " You're lucky you have a nice body to make up for your face." Wth?! I started to obsess more about my skin after that one.

Probably the worst thing that happened to me was around 10th grade I believe. It was the 1st day of school and my acne actually wasn't too bad on that day (in my opinion anyway) but my face has always been very oily. So I sat down in class and realized I didn't know anyone, but a really cute girl sat beside me. I'm usually very quiet but have a lot of guy friends (I think acne is a lot easier on a guy because for guys appearance is not really a priority) but I was very lacking in the girl department. Anyway, something made me want to talk to her that day, things were going well I started off with a few jokes which she laughed at and she was smiling a lot, I thought things were going really good. So anyway, class went on and I was really bored so I laid my head down to take a quick nap during the lecture. I ended up sleeping through almost the whole class, waking up about 5 minutes before class was going to end and I hear that girl beside me talking to her friend "man his face is so oily, it's disgusting!" My head was still rested on my arm like I was asleep and when I heard this i was really devastated... Even though I was awake I kept my head down pretending I was asleep until class was over.

This is my first post. Have only read up to page 7 but was reminded of mean things and things that stuck that were said to me that I wanted to share:

Age 17-18: "If she gives you a blowjob will you get acne on your ****?"

"What is wrong with your face?" - An 11 year old boy, my best friend at the time cussed him out.

"It looks like she was burned." - 13 year old kid on my bus, saw him a few years later... covered in acne.

"Hey there, I just wanted to say something to you real quick, you know the birth control Diane 35? It really helps with acne." - Random lady on the street. My response: "Tried it."

Age 19- A so-called "dating coach" who was friends with one of my friends rated me a 6 out of 10 because I "really needed to do something about my skin"

Age 21: A guy talking to my boyfriend about me in class, "BUT HER SKIN!!!"

An old lady at a health clinic told me to try rubbing my own saliva on my cheeks at night. It helps, she said.

Age 23: Only one comment from a patient in his 80's "What's wrong with your skin?"

And... I just realized that has been the only comment for this year. Awesome.

Under the age of 17 I was constantly hearing from my mother about new things to do about my face: Change your pillow case every night! Use a special towel just for your face! DON'T TOUCH! Try this pill, let's go to the dermatologist, etc etc the usual.

It's amazing the effect all this can have on one's self esteem. Today I was in a dressing room with horrible lighting staring at my scars and wondering what life would be like with perfect skin.

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It's amazing the effect all this can have on one's self esteem. Today I was in a dressing room with horrible lighting staring at my scars and wondering what life would be like with perfect skin.

Do you wash your face.

I thought I was pretty normal up until that point.

Tah, i'm over it!!

"Stop eating junk and your face will get better" -person at my school

"Just fking wash your face that's all you gotta do"- random guy at a football game

"Just pop the damn things" - my dad

(asked by a little kid who I babysit) "Why do you have bug bites on your face"

and my personal fave..."Actually shower once in a fking while"- person at my school

One time I was talking with a girl I didn't really know that well in middle school, and I learned from her that she had heard someone identify me as "the girl with all those pimples on her face". But I haven't had any comments for like two years. Middle school was awhile ago lol.

1.) "Why are you crying? Did your girlfriend call you a pizza face?"

2.) "we'll get that skin cleared up in no time" Mom said.

3.) Guy comes up to flirt with me, his friends in the background laugh at him

4.) My best friend says "Woa! Your breaking out!" (Oh really??)

5.) "You need to fix your whole face" random guy.

6.) Mom looks at old picture and says "Look at how clear your skin used to be"

7.) After I wash off my makeup someone says "now your ugly again."

8.) And the even worse stares and laughs i have gotten from guys in the caffeteria once they see me 'the BIG shocking look'

I dont have acne anymore, just the scars it left behind.

Before I had acne:

1.) What foundation do you use, your skin is flawless!

2.) Everyone is jealous of you because you have pretty paley white skin.

3.) Your skin is flawless.

4.) You have a great complextion.

5.) Ex bf who had bad acne "your so actractive, you dont even have any acne" me: yes i do! Him: haha yea Like, one! (age 16 or 15)

6.) Why don't you have a boyfriend your so pretty.

remmembering comments you get before you ever had acne are just as bad as remarks about acne.

at my school (thank god) there is not much judgement on personal appearance, because most students just look at it as a part of being a teenager,,, even though only about 10% of my school has acne. but a couple people have told me to "wash my face" twice a day (this was before i started accutane) and it always drove me CRAZY, because i ALWAYS made sure to wash my face and tried numerous regimens at that time.

"If I had a dime for every pimple on your face, I'd be - " then i punched him in the stomach. Idk how you guys let people talk to you like that.