Are you happy with your physical appearance?

[Vietnam]

1v1 me bro i'll wreck you.

DO YOU EVEN LIFT?!

NOT TYPICALLY!!!

[Evil Lord Bane]

Being I'm a month away from my 50th birthday, I find myself blessed with a full head of hair, unlike my bald father. Everything below that hair is a mess, but at least the hair is good.

[Vietnam]

Not really. In fact, I can't ever remember being happy with how I looked. Even as a child I wasn't happy with how I looked. I look more like a girl than a boy but I still won't cut my hair, even though I probably should. Also, being only 8 stone doesn't help.

If you don't want to cut it, don't cut it. :>

8 stone?

[The Whispers]

Nah kinda pissed off at my face.

[Samuraikoku]

I'm like 5'8 if my hair is included.

me too!! well about a month ago, its ben cut since

I cut mine about a month ago. It makes me look like a schmuck. (For an accurate picture, go to this post and click "Ranger".)

My ideal hair style would be something like this.

[The Joseon Dynasty]

I would recommend some light lifting then. Mostly just to work the non-cycling involved muscles.

Yeah. I have really toned legs and stomach, but not much going on up top. I'll get some Joe Esposito playing and crack out the ol' dumbbells.

[Vietnam]

Sorry D: >.<

I might be 5'5 </3 ;_;

5'10.5 whaddup.

grrr

doctor told me in 5th grade i'd be 5'11.5 when i grew up

then i stopped sleeping and started eating crap and had shitloads of stress

[Chestaan]

Not really. In fact, I can't ever remember being happy with how I looked. Even as a child I wasn't happy with how I looked. I look more like a girl than a boy but I still won't cut my hair, even though I probably should. Also, being only 8 stone doesn't help.

If you don't want to cut it, don't cut it. :>

8 stone?

8 stone is about 112 pounds. Yeah, I probably won't cut it for a while, but everyone keeps telling me to.

[Napkiraly]

OoooOooo, friskay ar whey?

Ah, bebeh. The other, other waht meat.

Lisen Missay, would yu fancy another go? 'Cause once yu've 'ad fat, yu neverr go back!

[Ayreonia]

Yeah, but you cheat.

Watch out for the hobbitses, they are tricksy.

I'm cool with hobbits. Elves, on the other hand? Fuck them.

[Fionnuala_Saoirse]

I don't have the physique of Daila Ojeda so no, not happy.

[United Dependencies]

It hit me pretty hard.

I have BDD, so this thread title is...almost comical to me, in a dark sort of way. I'm not just unhappy with my physical appearance, I'm incapable of being happy with my physical appearance. I've described BDD to people before as being like "every mirror is a funhouse mirror, and it's the least fun funhouse ever." I am not exaggerating when I say that I struggle to see myself as human, let alone attractive. Having the actual BDD diagnosis - a relatively recent development - helps somewhat, because now I have an official medical stamp of approval to tell myself, "when your brain and everyone else seem to be disagreeing about whether or not you're a hideous mutant hellbeast, the one that's lying to you is your brain."

So that clip hit me hard, because if I were describing myself to that sketch artist, I would have had nothing but critical comments for any feature. It is sort of nice (albeit also sad) to see, firsthand, how other women put themselves through the funhouse mirror and how other people don't see the same distorted views they do.

Oh... uh...

I'm sure you have the inner willpower to overcome this. Good luck to you.

[New England and The Maritimes]

I don't have the physique of Daila Ojeda so no, not happy.

You're Lara Croft, you can't be unhappy with that.

[Nailed to the Perch]

Watch out for the hobbitses, they are tricksy.

I'm cool with hobbits. Elves, on the other hand? Fuck them.

Shaddup, elves are awesome.

/may be biased

[Napkiraly]

5'10.5 whaddup.

grrr

doctor told me in 5th grade i'd be 5'11.5 when i grew up

then i stopped sleeping and started eating crap and had shitloads of stress

lel

My doc said she expects me to have another growth spurt. :/

[Zweite Alaje]

Mine is gonna be lopped off soon, my mum is getting irritated by it's length.

Easy fix there, ponytails!

I can't do ponytails, I have a afro.

My hair is long enough that when it's wet it covers my eyes though, lol.

[The Emerald Dawn]

My mother has that. She...it took her a long time to explain it to my young mind so that I understood what she was looking at. I think she's beautiful, but I'd say that and she'd go all weepy. Confused the ever living fuck out of me. Me Da would take me aside and tell me it wasn't my fault, and say that he agreed with me. Since we moved to the states, she's received a great deal of mental health care that just didn't happen back home.

I'm sorry that you have that in your rucksack. That's some shit to carry.

Thanks. It's a weird disorder in a lot of ways, because I can be a smart, rational person with obvious evidence that the way I feel about my appearance doesn't make any sense, and it just...doesn't even make a dent a lot of the time. Yesterday had a good example - I tried on a Size 2 dress at a store. It fit well. I looked at myself in the mirror, wearing this Size 2 dress, and thought, "This fits well, but ugh, I'm so ENORMOUSLY FAT." And I swear I really LOOKED fat in that mirror, even as I knew I was fitting without difficulty into a very small garment that no one who met any sane definition of "fat" could plausibly wear. Any other person wearing that same dress would have made me laugh if they told me they looked fat - and yet, I was somehow the world's only morbidly obese Size 2. It's bizarre and exhausting.

And then someone mentions that you'd have to have ten sizes higher before you would be obese, and it's basically like they're dismissing the entirety of your mental inner workings. Then there's the shallow "Hollywood Fat" standards that cause people who fit into a size two to think that they're actually ginormous. Then there's people who think you're just fishing for compliments, and aren't willing to understand that mentally it's the same thing as depression. You can't just "think happy thoughts" and have it go away. Clapping doesn't bring the fairy back to life sometimes.

[Fionnuala_Saoirse]

I don't have the physique of Daila Ojeda so no, not happy.

You're Lara Croft, you can't be unhappy with that.

Thigh holsters can only get me so far sadly.

[Neo Art]

I'm cool with hobbits. Elves, on the other hand? Fuck them.

Shaddup, elves are awesome.

/may be biased

Except you clearly are a tree.

[Luveria]

Not really. In fact, I can't ever remember being happy with how I looked. Even as a child I wasn't happy with how I looked. I look more like a girl than a boy but I still won't cut my hair, even though I probably should. Also, being only 8 stone doesn't help.

oO I wouldn't be complaining about looking more like a girl than a boy, that's nothing to complain about.

[Of the Free Socialist Territories]

Ah, bebeh. The other, other waht meat.

Lisen Missay, would yu fancy another go? 'Cause once yu've 'ad fat, yu neverr go back!

Or, directly on topic, o'coarse ah'm noot happeh. Luke at meh, ah'm a big fat slob. Ah've got more chans than a Chanese phoon-buke.

Oh, and on the subject of height, I'm 6'2".

[Vietnam]

If you don't want to cut it, don't cut it. :>

8 stone?

8 stone is about 112 pounds. Yeah, I probably won't cut it for a while, but everyone keeps telling me to.

Ahhh.

Yeah, same with my hair. >.<

[Ut0pi4]

I could turn some of this fat into muscle but other than that I'm okay with it

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[The Emerald Dawn]

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[Vietnam]

Lisen Missay, would yu fancy another go? 'Cause once yu've 'ad fat, yu neverr go back!

Or, directly on topic, o'coarse ah'm noot happeh. Luke at meh, ah'm a big fat slob. Ah've got more chans than a Chanese phoon-buke.

Oh, and on the subject of height, I'm 6'2".

Oh man. Totes jelly. My coat would fit better on me with that height.