Is there anything about your appearance that had made your life experience diffe!
Question: Do you think it has made you a stronger person?
Answers: Do you think it has made you a stronger person?
DEFINITELY. in bold capital huge underlined red.
my disabilities are quite physical. My kidney failure which is suspected to have started much earlier on in my life, (though not 100% sure since theres no tests available which would tell us for sure) caused a vitamin D and calcium defficiency which caused bone rickets. Add a very misinformed doctor who did not once mention the words "rickets" but only told us to "go to the seaside" right up til when the rickets was in extremes and irreversible. Which was when I was about 8 years old. After which my "friends" suddenly started isolating and bullying me. I spent from then till my I left school at age 15 being bullied by my so called friends, which led to my confidence being knocked so low that I then spent years isolating myself from everyone. But my new bunch of friends are the greatest ones in the World and have helped me start accepting myself and seeing that its the inner beauty that matter. My body is still deformed and most probbly always will be. But it doesnt matter to them, they are always ready to give me a kick up my bum when Im worrying about appearances ;-)
nope not really
not sure yet, will get back to you on that one
What a VERY thought provoking question! I am very average so it has not happened to me.
I am short.
I have a big butt.
I have a larger than normal nose.
but
I have cute earlobes!
It is hard to tell. We all have the cross eye bears. ;-)
No, but i do know what you are talking about.my challenges have been more brain wiring=]
I'm taking hormone pills to grow boobies and shrink my scrotum
Well i am fortunate enough to be a tall handsome white man and i am so grateful. i pretty much have it easy
Not really*
Just makes me walk funny
Still a big hit with the girls ;)
not really
No there wasn't/isn't but I always thought there was, I used to think I was the fattest girl in the world when actually I had an eating disorder.
But I got over it and now I'm happy with myself!
100% treated differently, ignored and rude stares. people are judgemental jerks, well about 90% of them are anyways.
I have no choice but to be strong.
Yup :)
If I dress more mature people respect you more, and look at you more different, and they are much more willing to listen to what you have to say :)
Oh yeah.
Being ugly has made me an outcast.
Yeah, it has made me "stronger" I suppose.
After all, I'm still here...
I can walk into a room and turn heads. I know I can have any man I want. It has made me confident but also egotistical and vain. That is something I am working on.
Edit: I know, I am so modest.... and humble
I am tremendously average and common looking. I look so much like anybody and everybody that if I get my hair cut, people don't even recognize me half the time. In a way, that's pretty depressing, but it also allowed me to basically cast off undesirable things from my past and be someone else, especially once when I was forced to reinvent myself after getting into some serious trouble. Now that my hair is completely gray, I bet half the people I knew when I was 30 wouldn't even know who I was. Weird.
Sometimes... people who are good looking don't get taken seriously... I look just like my avatar, so it's been a pretty serious issue... LOL
Yes. Whether we like to admit it or not we all treat one another differently based upon appearance. I've been lifting weights for nearly ten years, I played college football, and I've done power-lifting. For me, it has been difficult for many people to approach me because of my large stature. I have also been stereotyped as a "Meat Head" or a "Jock" for playing athletics. I have found my entire life trying to prove myself to others intellectually through parliamentary debate and scholastics. Finally, I am about to attend law school and I feel like once I have completed my journey and receive the title as an attorney I will have achieved the assurance I have always needed. Being treated differently because of physical attributes can really change or shape the person we are. Thankfully, mine has made me stronger.
I heard a couple of my friends say racist things towards Asians, and they had no idea I come from Asian heritage.
It's not entirely noticeable unless you're looking for it (my eyes slant slightly), but it was just mind boggling to hear things like that from someone you regard as a friend say that about your family and their culture. Just because they felt they were safe saying such things, is what always got me. If I looked the part, I know they never would've said anything like that. That's what scared me. It's continuously made me wonder what really goes on in people's minds.
I'm kinda gawky looking, but plenty of others look gawky. And surprisingly: Ugly people (such as myself) lead pretty normal lives.
In a way it has made me stronger but also has ripped at my confidence. I hate when people tell me, "Oh you look great! Such a beautiful young girl, you are!" because I feel like they're lying through their teeth. Then again when you learn to realize sometimes the jock or the jerk you like won't get past the way you look, you learn to deal with rejection, and also learn to love friends, who could care less about whether or not your beautiful, in your "outer person," because they're your friends--they love your personality and being with you! (Plus they look damned good standing next to somebody who is pretty ugly, it takes away from their own gawkiness!)
I don't think my appearance made my experience different than most people. I think everyone goes through an akward period were they just don't looks so great, and mine was when i had acne. You definitly get treated different though and It did affect my personality. But now i love who i am, i'm not one of those people who worry too much about how i look because i accepted myself when i wasn't looking good.And now i consider myself a beautiful person. so yeah i guess i made me stronger, but wasn't really different than most people.
Well my size has definitely altered my life experience--or at least that's how I see it. We all have different lives and life experiences. Mine is--I've always been a very petite person. When I was six, I looked like I was two. When I was twelve, I looked like I was six. Now I'm nineteen and people still think that I'm a thirteen year old simply because of my size and my physical facial features. I was so insecure about my height and my size and I still am but I have definitely embraced it a lot more now than I did when I was in middle school. It also feels wonderful when people compliment my petite size and wish they could be tiny too. I'm almost 19, less than 5 feet tall...and I have to admit, that being a tiny person has definitely made me a stronger person because of my learning experiences. Thank you for asking. :)
I am spontaneously handsome.
yes i do think that my appearance has made my life different from others.
and yes it has made me a stronger person
Well if you want honesty, I wear a 36b
and I thank God he did not bless me with big ones cause
I know if he would have I would have been a Slut!!
Thank Gosh for small boobs
Yes. I walked with my feet turned in at a nearly 90 degree angle--thrilling let me tell you.
Yes, it definitely made me stronger. At the very minimum the number of fights I got in made me stronger.
I have few to no people to walk with.
half Korean/half Italian. Koreans look at me as if there is something wrong with me. Italians don't even see me in them. I'm a total Hoppa...growing up in Boise....that was NOT very easy. i took a lot of crap face to face.
sure makes it easy to deal with on-line crap! =)
Well when you grow up with red hair and freckles kids aren't exactly the nicest things in school. Back then I would come home and cry. It wasnt until I was in my senior year of high school that I realized my hair and freckles were prettier then most others. Redheads are like a whole different class :D
they are like the untouchables.
I had always been skinny and cute. I got really used to people being nice to me and social because I was attractive. Then I gained a lot of weight and saw the other side of the coin. People found my personality abrasive because I was used to delivering it from a cute and skinny body. They didn't like hearing/seeing my personality from a fat girl.
I got back in shape and now it's back to people catering to me more. It's a sad life experiment that shows how vain and asinine people can be. It's obviously been a very information learning experience for me, though. It has helped me develop a stronger character.
No, not really. I'm just a generic, nondescript white dude. Somewhere between handsome and homely. Somewhere between fat and skinny. Somewhere between tall and short. Somewhere between old and young.
The things that make me unique and interesting come from within. So I can blend perfectly into a crowd when I want to and I can stand out when I want to.
Has looking relentlessly average made me a stronger person? No. If I'm a strong person, it's the result of my inherent character combined with my life experience.