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[quote=Anonymous]My DS has the same condition - born with it and surgery did not fix it.  All I can say is, it gets better - not the scar or appearance itself, but how your child will handle it. I won't lie - how she handles it may get worse before it gets better, but eventually it will get better. My son used to have a very hard time with it - whenever he was new at school or there were new kids (or even teachers) who would ask about it, sometimes innocently and other times possibly cruelly (or at least that was how it felt to him). Once he was in middle school it seemed to die down, possibly because everyone becomes self conscious at that point? One key thing is for you to work with her on a prepared explanation or response for her to say when she gets questions. For my son, what sometimes worked was playing up that he had surgery and had his head cut open (to try to stretch the skin to close the scar area) - it sounded like a cool story vs. something he felt embarrassed about. I'm sorry your daughter has to go through this. I agree with a PP that she will become very tough, and also she'll probably be very good at accepting others for who and how they are because she knows how rotten it can feel for people noticing that you're different.[/quote]

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