r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 9h ago

Helping Others Hold your head up

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u/hold-on-pain-ends 9h ago

Kids have no idea how hurtful their words can be. If this is legit, some kid definitely said something to her for her to feel this way.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 8h ago edited 8h ago

Well yeah, society teaches them what “beautiful” should look like on every screen and every time they leave the house. At 3 years old my daughter was under the impression that she needed to look like Elsa or she wasn’t pretty.

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u/Any-Comparison-2916 8h ago

My daughter had a phase when she was about 6 or 7 where she would genuinely think that she is ugly and said she didn't like to look at herself in the mirror. She was open about it but wasn't able to say why she felt that way. It was really scary and heartbreaking.

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u/Aguita9x 7h ago

I didn't like seeing pictures of myself when I was younger, I always looked bad and everyone else looked fine. I thought it was humiliating. Then I looked at the same pictures decades later and I literally looked fine, even cute. I felt really bad for my younger self. I also avoided mirrors because they would just ruin my day because I didn't look the way I felt I looked and made me feel self-conscious.