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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The main problem with too many "ah poor thing" articles is that it leads to compassion fatigue. Eventually, if you are constantly told that every little thing you do is wrong, you are just going to give up and have fun.[/quote]

Yes, it's better to not hear from anyone about their lives and the impacts this or that has on them. We don't want to hear about ordinary people! Silence their voices![/quote]

This isn't about ordinary people. I'm the OP and I do have a scar and it's never occurred to me to be upset about this. I rarely think about my scar and I suspect ordinary people don't think much about this type of thing. [/quote]

So people with facial scars are not ordinary people. Got it.  And you think no one ever stares at them, that they can just walk down the street without being stared at or having little kids ask their moms, what's wrong with him? And you think that shouldn't bother them?

I have a major, visible congenital deformity and I get stared at all the time and have heard that question a million times. It wears on a person. I think about my deformity every single day, primarily because the reactions of other people won't let me not think about it.  So I have sympathy for this person. Sorry you don't. But it sounds like you don't really experience the same thing in your daily life.[/quote]

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