I'm pretty disfigured (not to the point of people pointing at me or children running and crying). It's bad to the point of people just staring. Whenever I walk down the sidewalk to a store I'll be waiting at a street corner waiting for cars to go so I can walk across the street to the store. What'll happen is as I'm waiting I'll see people gawking and just staring at me.
Then, I'll go outside on my porch to sit on a swing and my neighbors will stop what they're doing and gawk. I'm afraid to drive because I'm very sensitive and it hurts my feelings when they stare. I live with my very conservative grandma and I CONSTANTLY ask her what's wrong with my face and she says nothing. And that's the end of that.
My grandma will say I'm paranoid or that I'm imagining them looking at me. I AM NOT PARANOID OR IMAGINING them looking at me-- I wish I was but I'm NOT! None of my other family members care. My sister is the only truthful person I know, she told me that I don't have much of a jaw. That my face is short and square and that my facial features belong on a longer more fuller face. I wrote and sent pictures to a well known surgeon in my area and he couldn't see any any problem. He did say I could come in to his office in person. I'm afraid to say it to his face that I'm stared at and I don't know how to be assertive and be like you know what? I deal with this everyday and your trying to say it's all in my head? I wish my heart wasn't surounded by pillows or I think my problem would have been solved by now!
I very seldomly go out, I've never had a BF and I'm without a job to make money to finance plastic surgery. It's hard to job hunt when you have no car! No one understands and labels me paranoid! I'm not and I don't go out looking for people to stare and I'm not self-conscious but am now cause of the staring! If you were me what would you do? I'm not a troll BTW why would I waste my time writing this?