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November 1, 2007, 11:56 am PDT

10/30 Body Dysmorphia

Quote From: lainieo

14 was the age I was when I looked at my school picture and saw how big my nose was. It was also the age my acne started and it has not gone away. I have avoided pictures ever since.

Forty years later, I am convinced I have had bad luck with men because I am too ugly to be taken seriously. I am someone to be used because I am so ugly, I must be desperate and anything goes.

I work at a school and yesterday was Picture Day. I did not take one. Why waste their ink and paper on something I will just throw away.

When I have any kind of bump or blemish on my body, I pick at it hoping I can make it go away because it just adds to the many imperfections that make me ugly.

I plan on making a T-shirt that says " No need to keep staring, I know I am ugly"

I really see no reason for anyone to spend any time looking at me other then for that reason and if I find someone staring, I will give them a dirty look to make that person stop.

Rather I would have believed them or not, it would have been nice for just one person to say I was pretty on one of the many times I said I was ugly, but no one ever did. Leads me to believe I am right.

I did not have my first date until I was 29. I have never had a boyfriend. I could go on and on about the things in my life that lead me to feel the way I do.
 Just because no one contradicted you by saying you were pretty means they  agreed  that you were ugly. Maybe they thought you wouldn't believe them if they did say you were pretty. That you had it so stuck in your head that you were ugly  that telling you you weren't  ugly wouldn't  convince you otherwise.  It might not be your looks, but  your attiutude about them,  that has kept you from ever having a boyfriend.  If  no one can even  look without  you thinking they're "staring" and turning  them away with  dirty  looks,  you 'll never have a boyfriend.
 


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