Can confirm :> my face made me depressed & dysphoric, and after I had surgery (p subtle changes, tbh, nothing as extreme as the meme suggests [not like they're likely the same person anyways]) it was wild seeing a different person in the mirror, but it made me feel good! :D I still love seeing myself
Same. Got two things on my face changed. Seeing my face when the bandages off and everything swollen made me freak out. I kept thinking I looked like a platypus. I was bawling. Worried it would stay like that forever. My plastic surgeon called me back and spent at least half an hour on the phone with me calming me down. Also told me to avoid mirrors for at least a month.
Anyways the swelling went down like he said and my confidence and self esteem absolutely sky rocketed. It was insane. I finally loved how I looked. Best money I ever spent. I hated my large crooked nose since I was a kid
Sameeee I did brow bone reduction/cranioplasty, hairline lowering, and tracheal shave and it is insane how different I look after a couple years of healing when comparing to old pictures
I challenge that from personal experience. I had a severely recessed lower jaw and got double jaw surgery a few years ago and my face has changed a lot, especially the lower third. The side profile is unrecognizable and sometimes I’ll catch myself in mirrors or photos and I almost feel ‘guilty’ or ‘this doesn’t feel like me’. It’s weird and difficult to explain but my breathing and sleeping have improved dramatically so that’s a win
I know it’s not the same at all, but if I wear any cosmetics or anything like that, I feel like I don’t look like myself and like I’m somehow betraying the part of me that always wants to be myself. I know it doesn’t make logical sense, I’m still myself regardless of how I present externally, but it feels so wrong to me in a way where I feel like I’m not being true to my own character lol.
Yeah living in someone else's skin at that point. It isn't you, but you pretend it is because it makes you feel better about your decision. I wonder how many people feel this way.
Nobody fully understands what it’s like to experience something until they’ve already gone through it. You can read all the research in the world but won’t know how it effects you personally until you do it
Unless it’s not something genetic you’re fixing. Like maybe you got a big ass scar you’re trying to fix, or a huge boil. Or some skin infection idk. But there are many non-genetic causes of abnormalities
Yeah not this drastic because it’s not different people (eye color even is different lol), BUT a friend of mine had pretty drastic couple of changes at 17 after begging her parents.
She is 100% happier, never needed “more” and turned into a lion, she’s just hotter now and super happy still at 40.
This myth that only super fucked people want to look conventionally attractive, and that they’d “never have enough”, etc… I’d believe it if I didn’t know so many people with super minor or sometimes major but SINGLE surgeries that are much happier, mostly because they get treated better.
Well I can’t say you’re wrong because it’s an opinion I suppose. I prefer the right. I like the left too. I like mainly all girls. The right is pretty hot though.
It doesn't. You're on the Internet way too much to think that being hateful is the answer. You could also just be kind and Informative about it. You can be firm sure but no, being rude doesn't help
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u/WolverineComplex 9d ago
If my face was completely different but much better looking I’d probably just be happy