An explanation
I want to clear things up for everybody, for everybody who always says to me "did you fall and bump your chin", or my favorite one is "you have dirt on your chin hun". NO IT'S NOT DIRT, NOR IS IT A BRUISE. It is hair. Well, hair grows there, I shave it off every morning. It is caused by a hormonal imbalance in my body. My body produces more hormones than it should for a female. Therefore, causing this "hair" to grow under my chin. Sometimes you can't notice it because I cover it up with make-up, but there are days where I really just don't want to, and I want to forget that it's there.
Yes, I could have surgery to have it removed permenatly, however, it would cause great damage to my skin, as well as my face and chin because they would have to cut it out, and replace it with skin from another part of my body. Therefore leaving me with two scars... one very noticable and another one to make me even more insecure than what is already there. There is also a possibility that if they were to do surgery, that it may not even work, and that the hair could possibly continue to grow. I have looked into the research about laser surgery for it, but even that, as well, has very risky side effects.
So, for all of you that ask, and all of you that comment, please... now you know... and now hopefully you understand. I'm sick of having to lie to people and say "oh, it's just a birthmark", and at the same time I'm just sick of people asking. Yes, it makes me different, yes it makes me strange I suppose, but it doesn't make me any less of a person. I know that people talk about it behind my back, don't think I don't, it's been going on since I hit puberty back in 6th grade.
So instead of commenting on that, find something different to say about me... even if its demeaning... because that's the one thing that really gets to me when people say it, and it makes Ben's job a lot harder when he's been trying to help me not be so self-conscience about it.
I'm not saying this for people to feel bad for me. I'm not saying this for people to make fun of me. I'm saying this so that people will understand, and that they will STOP asking me what I did to my chin....
Yes, I could have surgery to have it removed permenatly, however, it would cause great damage to my skin, as well as my face and chin because they would have to cut it out, and replace it with skin from another part of my body. Therefore leaving me with two scars... one very noticable and another one to make me even more insecure than what is already there. There is also a possibility that if they were to do surgery, that it may not even work, and that the hair could possibly continue to grow. I have looked into the research about laser surgery for it, but even that, as well, has very risky side effects.
So, for all of you that ask, and all of you that comment, please... now you know... and now hopefully you understand. I'm sick of having to lie to people and say "oh, it's just a birthmark", and at the same time I'm just sick of people asking. Yes, it makes me different, yes it makes me strange I suppose, but it doesn't make me any less of a person. I know that people talk about it behind my back, don't think I don't, it's been going on since I hit puberty back in 6th grade.
So instead of commenting on that, find something different to say about me... even if its demeaning... because that's the one thing that really gets to me when people say it, and it makes Ben's job a lot harder when he's been trying to help me not be so self-conscience about it.
I'm not saying this for people to feel bad for me. I'm not saying this for people to make fun of me. I'm saying this so that people will understand, and that they will STOP asking me what I did to my chin....