How do you emotionally recover from being physically disfigured ?

[MAJOR METAL]

How do you emotionally recover from being physically disfigured ?

[Jereth]

Honestly, I don't think I could and I have the utmost respect for those who can...

[Nasnederis]

Originally Posted by Jereth

Honestly, I don't think I could and I have the utmost respect for those who can...

What you mean with "I don´t think I could"??


I think we all can, but the cuestion is how. It´s a difficult quiestion to answer , I think I would have to be in that situation.

[El-Bob]

[FL Knifemaker]

Being such a perfect and beautiful specimen of the human race, I don't think I ever could

[Nino Valenti]

I've never been physically disfigured so I couldn't tell you.

[FL Knifemaker]

Originally Posted by Nino Valenti

I've never been physically disfigured so I couldn't tell you.

What about your evil alter ego...........Emo Nino???

[Nino Valenti]

Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker

What about your evil alter ego...........Emo Nino???

My swimming alter ego Nemo Nino drowned him.

[Mon Rominee]

Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL

How do you emotionally recover from being physically disfigured ?

No one made you get them tattoos man.

(I'm kidding.)

[RedemptionBass]

I'll let you know next week. I have my physical disfigurment appointment on Tuesday.

[Basshappi]

Dealing with disfigurment isn't the tough part.

Dealing with how other people react to your disfigurment is the challenge.

[artistanbul]

I hope I'll never have to find out.

[doctorjazz]

Yeah, I don't know how I'd be able to deal with that. I know it's not exactly disfigurement, but there's an old black guy working as a night shift janitor at my school who has really severe vitiligo all over his face and hands. He really is kind of alarming looking. He's a really nice guy though, and a good musician based on what I've heard him play on some of the pianos in the music department late at night. It just makes me wonder if his appearance has relegated him to a late-shift minimum wage job where no one will have to look at him, despite all his positive attributes. That's a pretty sad reality to consider.

[FL Knifemaker]

Originally Posted by Nino Valenti

My swimming alter ego Nemo Nino drowned him.

OK, nevermind

[blueskid]

what kind of disfigurement are we talking about?
my brother drank a lot after he ruined his arms. it wasn't like they fell off, but he was a guitar player and has wicked scars up and down both arms, and a cool angle scar on his head.
after two years he's learning to play again, and he thinks that maybe he will get awesome tats to cover up the scars on his arms

[Stanley Design]

Spending my settlement money on hookers and going from playground to playground traumatizing children. That was an easy question.

[Croox]

a paper bag over my head with this drawn on it ""

[heroincredible]

Depending on the disfigurement, I'd probably go through a drowning my sorrows in alcohol phase. Realise that I'm still the same person I was before I was disfigured, and then go about my business.

[Bard2dbone]

When I was ten years old I was run over by a tow truck. I was on my bike, back when they didn't have hand brakes. If your chain came off you couldn't stop. Mine did. I couldn't and I rolled right out in front of a wrecker.

It hit me, threw me, hit me again and rolled over me.

It sucked.

I got pretty messed up, but the most notable places were my facial injuries. The five top front teeth were all broken and my right incisor came out through my top lip. I split the skin from just above the right corner of my mouth down to the jawline and across to the other side of my chin. Combined with the wound from the front tooth going through my top lip, I had a scar that looked like a large red 'C' around my mouth. I also broke both cheekbones and knocked the point off of my jaw.

The medicines they kept me on to keep my intracranial pressure down made me do all my growing at once, at least that's what I blame it on. Regardless, when I turned twelve I was 5'11" and MUCH bigger across the chest and shoulders than my coaches at school. But I was horrifically clumsy from growing so fast.

So as a twelve year old I was a head and a half taller than the average guy in my class, twice his weight, and so clumsy that I could be standing still and fall over anyways.

The other kids were exactly as nice as you would guess to someone they'd known since first grade who suddenly became wierd looking. They nicknamed me 'Frankenstein'. And I was the target for every joke made at my school for a few years.

How did I cope? I didn't. I got angry. I got furious and I stayed that way...for years. I would have been totally willing to 'Go Columbine' on several of my classmates at many times in my academic career, but fortunately I had SOME restraint and decided that was better left as a pleasant fantasy, where there is no collateral damage and only the worst jerks die.

Time passed.

I got better. I had to get away from people who felt it necessary to remind me frequently that I was the ugliest person they knew. And eventually I 'grew into' my features, so that as an adult, I don't look all THAT different from several of my relatives. My scars have faded. I got my teeth fixed. And I just never go anywhere that anyone who knew me then will be.

Simple.

[MAJOR METAL]

Originally Posted by Basshappi

Dealing with disfigurment isn't the tough part.

Dealing with how other people react to your disfigurment is the challenge.

Sad But True.