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A bit insecure about how I look

Earth Girl
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When I was younger, I use to think I was just really boring and daggy looking and I would get jealous of other girls, but one day, I heard some guys calling me ugly and I stated thinking that maybe I was since they were all saying it and I started wondering what made me look ugly and I started wearing a full face of makeup everyday in year 10 and I couldn't leave the house without it.

 

I'm not as insecure about how I look as I was when I was younger, but I still find my face and body strange looking. I like the color of my hair, but it's very poofy and crazy no matter what I do to it. I have eye bags, strange skin with purple undertones, I think my eyebrows might be too close to my eyes, I have a crack in my forehead, my nose sticks out and my body is shaped really weirdly. I think my arms look okay and I've lost weight in my legs, but my stomach and behind are really big and it just looks really unproportioned and weird to me. 

 

If you think you look weird, but actually do look weird, is that still body dysmophia? It doesn't bother me as much as it use to if I'm strange looking, but I'm worried that people look at me and must think that I look really strange to say the least.

 

So many people think I look ugly so I think it must be true. I spend a lot of time dreaming I looked how I wished I looked.

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Thank you Emotions26. You have a kind heart too. ❤️

I just wanted to say that when I was using that site and saying the mean things on it, I wasn't deliberately trying to bully these people back - I was trying to use irony. What I mean by that is, for example, if you see someone calling someone else ugly and you don't agree with that person calling them that, if you want to use irony to get back at the bully, you could say something like "Oh yeah, we are just so much better than ugly people because that person you're bullying is just so ugly and we are just so good looking that we have the right to call them that." So you're basically trying to make the bully see how nasty and stupid they sound when they call that person ugly, if that makes sense? It's really hard to explain. It's like satire except, it's not suppose to be offensive, it's just trying to get people to realize how mean they are being.

 

People feel the need to point out flaws that I have that I already know about because they seem to think that if I don't say anything about them, that I don't know about it. But I'm worried that if I do say something about my flaws that they will notice them more. I have really bad facial skin (it makes me look old in a way) and I started thinking that maybe it made me look like a grandma, but I didn't say anything about because I thought that if I didn't say anything that maybe people wouldn't notice, but a while later, someone from school said that I look like a grandma so they obviously do notice even if I don't say anything.

 

The only thing that I didn't notice that other people do is that I have "no eyebrows" (I have eyebrows, but they are apparently hard to see). I knew my eyebrows weren't the best, but I didn't know people couldn't even see them.

 

I try not to go as low as to bully people about their appearance even when they are being really mean to me and bullying me about mine. It's a weird thing to bully people about, especially since these people and I are all 24 - 40 years old. (Some people who are in their 40's bully me). I feel like once you're in your mid 20's, it's really time to try to grow up a bit.

Earth girl I like your strength to help others and say what you think is right. I don’t understand people over 20 bullying but I know bullies in their 50s. 
You have an insight into your behaviour and others. 

Thank you quirkywords. 🙂

I was wondering does everyone on Earth have some form of body dis-morphia? I once told my Mum and sister that I thought I had it and my sister said "I think we all do."  And I do remember everyone in my family talking about how they had things about their face that they were really insecure about. I guess it would be kind of hard not to have at least a bit of body dismorphia because humans are hard on themselves and each other.