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Every day one of my classmates points out and tells me to squeeze my pimples. When I explain to him that they are cysts, I cant pop them, he doesn't understand. Also, he's on accutane.
He was like "oh cysts? I never have those. I just have a few pimples but its all good I'm on accutane now."
I hope he looses his hair from accutane.
It's unfortunate how these are just little comments, but because of the magnitude of what we suffer, we can remember them well 
I'm 22 now and have pretty bad scarring, which started when I was 16. Around this time I remember walking out from class and an 8 year old kid said something like "haha, hi freckle face!". For the two years I had acne in high school (the final two years) someone in my own year-level only said something once about it, like "why do you have pimples?" Even though it was uncommon for people to have it at my school, as a 16-17 year old you can be excused for it I guess.
When I was 18, my grandfather said to me "why is your face all scratched?", I tried to brush it off. Then a year or so later, my brother, who was 12, started singing a tune where he incorporated the word "pimple" into it while pointing at me.
Since then, no-one has said anything about it to me after 3 years, no-one is willing to address the elephant in the room.
Hmm...mine would have to be "hey! you have acne/pimples!" No duh...way to point out the obvious. "Why is your face red?" My so called friend asked me that last year all the time. Or during class when the teacher brings up acne during a convo, and it seems like everyone looks at you. I just wanna curl up and die. Also, i was getting my eyebrows waxed and the lady doing it says "Well i have this treatment so you dont break out or get red around your brows, you should use it because your already breaking out everywhere else!" This was at a time when i was content with my skin...I was just thinking in my head, "I'm not breaking out, i look like this all the time...." But i just nodded my head. People can be so mean!
My boyfriends ex is one of those infuriating people who can live in filth, drink loads .. etc, wear the same clothes for days and days, eat whatever she likes and touch her face all day long and would never get a simple bump. Shes one of those people who dresses (and behaves) like a "skins" character with shoulder straps falling off revealing perfect skin on her back... She is also quite a flakey character who I do not think has given much thought to other people... indicated in the following
She was sat there after a night out where she had turned up, called my boyfriend to come pick her up cause she was stranded and puked as she got off the ferry, got driven back to his parents house, laid on the bed putting her stomach out next to the fan and talking about some guy they all knew....... she pulled a disgusted face and said
"oh yeah, god hes covered in spots its disgusting, he's got like, proper adult acne or something. He needs to sort it out"
It was said with the attidude, like he just hadn't bothered, like it was his fault. I don't know the guy she was talking about but I can make a pretty safe bet he is probably doing more for his skin than she does for hers. Bloody genetics!
i like to believe she never bothered noticing my skin... either that or she is REALLY mean.
anyway. thats the one which really bugged me at the time.
I don't think she is a "bad" person but this comment just summed up a few things I think.
It would be nice to be able to grant acne to each person who makes comments like this for a year just so they see what its like. so maybe they will thnk before saying really hurtful things abotu subjects they would never understand.
Wow you used to look so pretty before look how you have turned out.
How can you live with yourself?
Don't eat so much chocolate. ( Don't know if that's mean or if it's just bad advice)
Have you looked at yourself in the mirror?
I can count your pimples. One, two, three, four, five and that's a big one!
Why do you have so much acne?
You nedd a facial wash.
It's comments like this that make people wanna stay hidden away somewhere. I know you shouldn't care what people say but it does hurt its not like their talking about your shirt or car something like that, their talking about your face what people see first when they see you, what people think of first when they say your name. How could that not affect someone?? Whoever said stick and stones may break your bones etc. obvioulsy never had ACNE!!! 🙄
Allthough these comments hurt, I feel that they are a bit honest. Like for instance my friends used to tell me that my acne is not visible and that it's all in my head. Then when I was finished with accutane they were like oh your skin is so much better it was really bad before. I feel that that is more worst. Because it's like a knife. The slower they put it in to your heart the more it hurts, but if it put it immideatly to your heart it hurts less.
It's kind of illegal to bully people however you feel like it. There is a law against bullying. Giving advice is not the same thing as bullying but awarely putting someone down because of their acne or something else is an illegal action. Allthough acne is soemthing that the surrounding don't know how to handle or what to say it's not ok to put people down however we please. There is a limit of how we threath each other. And you can always try to not take it personal and say that this was not an ok action you are not allowed to say this.
STand up for yourself people! Even I have a history of being bullied.
I've had My mother of course, always looking at me and TOUCHING my face to see the acne (and then gets mad when I ask her to just please not touch my face) and always telling me "gosh girl, it's just not going away." Like there is some off button I can push to make it stop because y'know I totally love having acne. And my friend (yes, she is my very close friend which makes this a bit sad) alwasy drops these painful little comments like "oh hey, I could just pop them bumps for ya" "girl your face is shiiiiiny" or maybe she can just suggest that I don't have equally perfect skin? "I washed my face and now it's all nice and clear." She gets the occasional pimples but nothing like mine. I never say anything about hers. OR ANYONES. I would never do that after going through this horrible acne. Then last year I had this one friend who would tell me not to wear makeup because its clogges your pores and that I should drink more water (already drinking 8+ glasses a day.) and just recently another friend said "you know fried foods make the skin look oiler." like she wasn't even a close friend, how does she know what I eat? Does she know I would NEVER EVER eat fried food. Does she know I eat the actual reccomended servings of veggatables and fruit a day? Does she know this? no. I hate the most how people just ASSUME your not trying to take care of acne.
little girl- "pimple!!!"
friends dad-"whats happened? whats all over your face?"
little boy- "why do you got dots all over your face?"
best friend "you just need to wash your face more"
really? i only wash it religiously every morning and night.
girls in high school " have you tried proactive???"
YEAH AND IT DIDNT WORK YOU BITCH
i got that question over 20 times, no joke.
"you should see a derm" really? i've seen like ten you fucker.
"you would be so pretty if you didnt have acne!"
"maybe you should drink some green tea"
ok??
little girl- "pimple!!!"
friends dad-"whats happened? whats all over your face?"
little boy- "why do you got dots all over your face?"
best friend "you just need to wash your face more"
really? i only wash it religiously every morning and night.
girls in high school " have you tried proactive???"
YEAH AND IT DIDNT WORK YOU BITCH
i got that question over 20 times, no joke.
"you should see a derm" really? i've seen like ten you fucker.
"you would be so pretty if you didnt have acne!"
"maybe you should drink some green tea"
ok??
"This kid's got zits bigger than my asshole."
LOL
is it bad that i got acne and i laugh at some of these?
this girl that is supposed to be my friend ALWAYS has something to say about my acne.
-*points to one of my pimples* "why is that one so big? i wanna poke it!"
okay first of all, thank you. and second of all, that's really creepy and you're making me feel uncomfortable.
-"you need clearasil"
oh and she'll constantly say in this weird voice that i guess is supposed to make it humorous "you have acne!!" wow no kidding.
and then things that other people have said, like "what's wrong with your face?" "you look so different..you have acne now.." "i can give you a makeover! we'll cover up that acne! you'll look so pretty!"
and my favorite, "do you wash your face?"...no. i don't. ever. why do you ask.
it kills me when people say "oh you'd be the most beautiful girl without that acne!" i guess it's a compliment but it hurts soo bad to know that they'd think i was beautiful if i didn't have acne. i'm sick of it.
this girl that is supposed to be my friend ALWAYS has something to say about my acne.-*points to one of my pimples* "why is that one so big? i wanna poke it!"
okay first of all, thank you. and second of all, that's really creepy and you're making me feel uncomfortable.
-"you need clearasil"
oh and she'll constantly say in this weird voice that i guess is supposed to make it humorous "you have acne!!" wow no kidding.
and then things that other people have said, like "what's wrong with your face?" "you look so different..you have acne now.." "i can give you a makeover! we'll cover up that acne! you'll look so pretty!"
and my favorite, "do you wash your face?"...no. i don't. ever. why do you ask.
it kills me when people say "oh you'd be the most beautiful girl without that acne!" i guess it's a compliment but it hurts soo bad to know that they'd think i was beautiful if i didn't have acne. i'm sick of it.
Me too I used to be the prettiest in my family. I hate it when they say you need a facial wash.
It's like they take for granted I don't wach my face.
I've had My mother of course, always looking at me and TOUCHING my face to see the acne (and then gets mad when I ask her to just please not touch my face) and always telling me "gosh girl, it's just not going away." Like there is some off button I can push to make it stop because y'know I totally love having acne. And my friend (yes, she is my very close friend which makes this a bit sad) alwasy drops these painful little comments like "oh hey, I could just pop them bumps for ya" "girl your face is shiiiiiny" or maybe she can just suggest that I don't have equally perfect skin? "I washed my face and now it's all nice and clear." She gets the occasional pimples but nothing like mine. I never say anything about hers. OR ANYONES. I would never do that after going through this horrible acne. Then last year I had this one friend who would tell me not to wear makeup because its clogges your pores and that I should drink more water (already drinking 8+ glasses a day.) and just recently another friend said "you know fried foods make the skin look oiler." like she wasn't even a close friend, how does she know what I eat? Does she know I would NEVER EVER eat fried food. Does she know I eat the actual reccomended servings of veggatables and fruit a day? Does she know this? no. I hate the most how people just ASSUME your not trying to take care of acne.
I know like we have chosen to have acne. If it was a choice of course I would choose it away. Or for instance when someone uglier then you suddenly feels better about herself because She doesn't have acne. Life is unfair. Or when you say hey there is no connection between food and acne it's scientifiaclly prooven and my scindoctor say that. Then they go but I brake out every time I eat chocolate and you should change your derm because he sounds weird. So I should believe an amateur over an educated skindoctor with tons of clients? You ignorant BIATCH!
And you might have gotten those pimples anyway even if you didn't eat chocolate you brainwashed bimbo who pretends to be my freind and pretends to know what's best for me! That's what I really want to say but I never do instead I go on and dwell about it.
My acne was at its worst when I was 12-13 years old. The meanest things I ever heard came from my own parents. They both made it a point to tell me straight out how hideous and disgusting I looked. Now that was hard for a 12 year old girl to hear. I never heard anything near that mean at school. It was way worse at home. My parents were worse than the kids at school.
Like, they were ok (not real kind or loving or anything. just ok) to me when I was a cute little kid. But when I morphed into an acne infested adolescent, they were just disgusted by me. I'm in my early 30s now with mostly clear skin, and I'm still not close to my parents because they are such bastards.
I mostly just get the usual:
"Why don't you wash your face?" - Oh really? Why didn't I think of that?
"Maybe you shouldn't sleep on bacon." - I'm not sure if that was meant to be funny or what.
"Pizza face." - Yawn.
"Pimple face." - Clever...
"You need to take ___." - Nope.
Of course you have to toss in a couple of little kid comments...
"What's that on your face?"
"Ewww."
"Mommy why does that man have mosquito bites on his face?"
None of these effect me much, it's the same tired insults over and over again and they're so random, I'll be walking down the hall and someone I don't even know, haven't even seen before will say this stuff. How diluted and sad do you have to be to just randomly say these things to people? If there's anything good from having acne (yeah right) I'd say it sure helps weed out some terrible people. When my acne clears up soon (fingers crossed), I want nothing to do with anyone who's said these types of comments to me or anyone else. Some of these comments I've read are just horrible, especially ones where your own parents call you ugly, that's disgusting, some people you see in the halls or on the street are going to make stupid comments, it's to be expected really, but your own parents? They're supposed to help protect you from these types of comments... I'm lucky in that my parents are helping me now albeit a little late to the party, I'm 19 and getting a little old to be needing help from my parents when it comes to these things, I love them and all but I need to fly the coop here. I sure wish I'd dealt with this sooner but hey, I'm living, learning and taking notes along the way. On a side note, what bothers me more than the lame insults is downplaying the problem by saying things like "it's not that bad" when I didn't even bring it up. To me it is "that bad" and making out to seem like it's not a problem that I know is a problem that is having obvious physical and emotional side effects isn't helping, it makes me feel bad about feeling bad, that people don't take it seriously when I say I need help. This is me personally but I also don't like to hear casual comments on my skin good or bad, bad for obvious reasons and good because as we all know acne gets better and worse and next time it might not be so "good". Long story short, unless requested, I'd rather the comments be left to a dermatologist.
I had this comment once and only about my appearance when I had acne. ( Or it could be just my teenage look.)
I recall it was back in High School, my friend said I could go Halloween with my face without any costume. Silly, yes. Could he really felt that way or it was just a joke, probably.
I didn't and still don't mind that comment. 
I did have acne and I didn't care what I look like during HS, someone even asked me why I wore the same jacket everyday back in HS too. I probably would call myself ugly if I could go back in time and have a look at my past.
I was lucky because people really didn't mind my problem at all.
People would understand as long as you open yourself to them, and of course they have to be educated enough to learn to understand other people's struggle.
I read a few pages and had some good laughs. Don't ever take any of those silly remarks seriously.
It always will past.
People have said I have nice skin complex and asked me for advises, when I also had my days of seeking for answers on how do I get rid of my pimples.
Lighten up~
People haven't said anything mean; they just try to give me advice or ask whats wrong with my face. One particular person at work says as they are looking at my face..."you've been really stressed". Another person on more than one occasion has offered me there cold sore cream even after I've repeatedly told them I've never had a cold sore. Why would you share cold sore medication is my question.
"what is that?" or even better "WTF is that?"
Well let's see hum...are u a dumbass, WTF do u think it is?
My favorite "what is that?" his friend "acne scars" other dude "too bad, she might be hot if it werent for that"
But those are really rare, most of the time it's jealous girls and guys usually always say I'm hot regardless I mean I do have a bangin ass body:)
Man people are fucking mean, sometimes i wish they could climb inside my body and walk around being me feeling everything i feel for a day, I'll guarantee you those fucks will never look at another person with acne the same again, fucking assholes, makes me mad, i don't go around saying to people, damn you got a big fucking nose, because i know they have no control over it.
I've thought the same thing!! Sometimes I think I'd take the acne over the huge nose cause the acne can be controlled, the nose keeps getting bigger with age!!lol