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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If posting a pic gives her anxiety, don’t post, she can announce her college without a pic of herself. Encourage a social media break if it’s stressful and not building connection for her. Some ppl are more triggered by these things than others - if she’s more confident when taking a break, this is the answer for her. Lots of Gen z are not posting much on insta and have mostly blank pages and only post to their story. [/quote]

I am talking

Op here and she does not post on insta. As you say her crowd is not very active on there, if at all. [b]That’s  why it was so irritating for people to jump on this.[/b] It’s really generally about pics of herself which recently included this (on the school decision page) and her sport senior banner. She also resists taking pics at all. Not a body image issue (she’s thin and athletic and has no body issues or eating issues) but really about not liking her face. [/quote]

Excuse me, but YOU created the thread. YOU are jumping on this problem, not us. We are telling you that it's not a big deal if she posts without a photo, and some people cautioned she might have more than the usual amount of normal teen self-hate - but that's just based on what you wrote out for us.

So calm down and try to calm your daughter down. Your rant on DCUM makes it look like you're worsening her fears by egging her to post a picture.

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I am talking specifically about the very large Instagram societal scope this discussion has taken almost immediately with people chiming in about how bad this is for preteens when my dd is almost an adult and has never even posted on Instagram. I don’t disagree with those posters, but it has nothing to do with my dd and probably warrants its own post. As for the photo itself, the school page has photos for every single post so no, she cannot post without a photo, it’s either send pics to be posted or don’t get it posted. She likely will not have it posted at all which I do find a bit sad bc she does want to post this and yet won’t. Some people were lovely and had some nice advice and useful view points but I don’t think posting here means I have to be thrilled with every response.[/quote]

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