(September 10, 2023 at 6:29 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: @arewethereyet
So we agree some people get grief for their appearance. And that this has psychological effects that need to be managed.
It's good we can at least agree on that.
The thing is that the grief he got ended with age. By the time he was in high school, kids were decent enough to just not mention it any more. He isn't approached by assholes and hasn't been for years.
I had him in his stroller and we were at an outing with the family and we were approached by a man older than me who asked what happened to his face. I simply asked him what happened to his manners...he slunk away.
Amazingly, I was having to purchase condoms for him in his teens. Seems not to have sent him to basement feeling sorry for himself.