Are you happy with your physical appearance?

[Zweite Alaje]

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.

You look fine to me, IDK why you're talking about. BTW I'm on that list too a bit further down, for anyone curious.

[Old Tyrannia]

I'd like to be naturally thin and have more of a chin. And I wouldn't mind a moustache and a goatee like King Charles I. But otherwise I actually think I'm decently attractive and wouldn't change much.

[New England and The Maritimes]

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.

I have mood swings surrounding this same thing, but I think it comes more from abuse generally and being trained into a thought pattern of "You are total shit." I've dropped five pants sizes in the past few years and yet every once in a while I'll look at myself and think "What a fat loser. Ugly, too." as a basic summation. I have a lot more good days than bad days lately, but I sort of know what it feels like.

[Nailed to the Perch]

Shaddup, elves are awesome.

/may be biased

Except you clearly are a tree.

Yeah, well, you're a walrus.

[Vietnam]

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[United Dependencies]

Watch out for the hobbitses, they are tricksy.

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

It depends on the elves for me.

Dwarves are usually my favorite mythical race.

[Fionnuala_Saoirse]

I'd like to be naturally thin and have more of a chin. And I wouldn't mind a moustache and a goatee like King Charles I. But otherwise I actually think I'm decently attractive and wouldn't change much.

Meh, his facial hair is a lot offputting

[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.

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

It is if you're a guy...

[The Joseon Dynasty]

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

Me, too. It's pretty fantastic.

[Luveria]

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

It is if you're a guy...

No it's quite the opposite if you're a guy.

[Ayreonia]

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

Shaddup, elves are awesome.

/may be biased

Depends on the elf, really. Tolkien elves? Were actually interesting before the movies. Warcraft elves? Fuck them. DnD and other cliché elves? Meh. TES elves? Cool.

[Old Tyrannia]

I'd like to be naturally thin and have more of a chin. And I wouldn't mind a moustache and a goatee like King Charles I. But otherwise I actually think I'm decently attractive and wouldn't change much.

Meh, his facial hair is a lot offputting

Nonsense. It looks manly yet sophisticated.

[Serrland]

I consider myself pretty average. 6'0 - pretty normal. 165 pounds - pretty normal. Brown eyes/brown hair? Pretty average for this neck of the woods.

But that's quite alright by me.

[Nailed to the Perch]

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.

Ayuuuup.

Having the diagnosis helps some. Therapy helps some. Having a partner who makes it clear in a variety of ways that he thinks I'm pretty and not a hideous hellbeast helps, too. Between the three of those things, most days, I can at least go about my life without feeling like I need to lock myself in the house and prevent anyone from looking at me ever again, so that's something, at least.

[Distruzio]

I enjoy being short! It adds to my mystique.

Plus it allows for great versatility in dick jokes.

How short?

5'4"

Having a black father means I get to claim that I'm so short because "things" weigh me down, when such jokes are appropriate.

[Fionnuala_Saoirse]

Meh, his facial hair is a lot offputting

Nonsense. It looks manly yet sophisticated.

It's the kind of facial hair I would associate with burnt out hippies and Scottish winos.

[Miyager]

I apparently look pretty average. So yeah. As long as I'm not considered ugly or unattractive, I'm fine.

[Of the Free Socialist Territories]

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

Me, too. It's pretty fantastic.

Tall enough to reach stuff others can't, hold them at arm's length etc. etc.

Short enough to avoid hitting your head on most post-1600 doorways.

It's a win-win.

[Distruzio]

Meh, his facial hair is a lot offputting

Nonsense. It looks manly yet sophisticated.

Indeed.

[Nailed to the Perch]

Shaddup, elves are awesome.

/may be biased

Depends on the elf, really. Tolkien elves? Were actually interesting before the movies. Warcraft elves? Fuck them. DnD and other cliché elves? Meh. TES elves? Cool.

Oh, Warcraft elves are stupid and don't count as elves. It's all about the Tolkien elves.

[Vietnam]

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

Me, too. It's pretty fantastic.

HAND ME SOME OF YOUR HEIGHT JOSEON TOGETHER WE COULD BOTH BE 5'10

[Zweite Alaje]

How short?

5'4"

Having a black father means I get to claim that I'm so short because "things" weigh me down, when such jokes are appropriate.

Good one!

I can't do that unfortunately, half the people that meet me think I'm a puerto rican.

[Serrland]

Nonsense. It looks manly yet sophisticated.

It's the kind of facial hair I would associate with burnt out hippies and Scottish winos.

Now, if he had a lovely Poirot style 'stache, on the other hand...

[Neo Art]

Except you clearly are a tree.

Yeah, well, you're a walrus.

...in a "physical appearance" thread.

Thanks. Love you too....

[Grocery Store Music]

I'm 5'10, 188 lbs and I typically sport a Jewfro. I'm not entirely happy with any of it.