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Originally Posted by Discombobulated
How do you react when people make comments about your appearance? I am wondering how you respond and in turn how they respond to this.
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It’s always an inner suffering and sadness. The difference is that in the past I suffered it in silence now I respond. Normally, if I consider that it’s something superficial and much more when I can’t do anything to change it, I wonder, why this person cares about this that it’s not so important. And I communicate it.
The person usually low the tone of his words and give me an explanation. Many times this explanation is not valid, it’s only an opinion. But, still I feel worried and concern. Although I try to hide these feelings and express my own opinion and choice.
If it’s a kid, it happened to me sometimes when I was teaching in schools, It also hurts but I give them more the benefit of the doubt.
Most of the times kids say what they think but they say it as it pops into their minds and you have to read behind their message because sometimes what it seems a rude comment is only an opinion again, or a constructive criticism expressed with the wrong words. So, I try to ask and see what they really mean.
I’m a person who don’t care about how a person is dressed or how if the person has more or less messy hair. I see the person in total. So, maybe on one side, because of my complexes and on another side, because I tend to see people this way, some attitudes are hard for me to get.
My grandma usually expressed each time I went to visit her, the first thing she expressed when I was still at the front door was how messy I have my hair.
I know I’m very sensitive but wow, it was every time, the first I hear.
For me it was a torture going to the clothes shop and seeing me on the mirror while I had to try any clothes. So, yes I’m sensitive toward this topic, I barely liked anything in my body but as I said before I already consider myself lack of social abilities so the other is like pouring accelerant on the fire.
Hope I didn’t make many mistakes in English in my long replies.