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[quote=Anonymous]I have a scar on my forehead from stitches when I was 2, and I was horribly, irrationally self conscious about it in middle school. I used concealer on the scar when I never would have even thought about using concealer on pimples. It just made me feel different, and I felt like people were looking at it. This was before Harry Potter - maybe kids with forehead scars are cool now!

My son has a birth mark on his face, too (not PWS, but mark  that colors in the summer like his freckles do) and he feels self conscious about that.

What I remember is how all my mom's insistence that it wasn't a big deal made it worse. It was a big deal to me. Her two approaches were: no one notices or cares, and then to get me coverup. I think there is a middle way, or a different way: yes, people notice. Yes, they say boneheaded things. But this is YOU, and there is a story behind your scars and marks.

The good thing is that I was self conscious for a year or two, and then I just stopped caring. [/quote]

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