Posted by Susan47 on May 10, 2005, at 9:38:00
In reply to Re: Love » Susan47, posted by Toph on May 9, 2005, at 20:51:38
Hives are terrible. I had them a few years ago, they drove me crazy, red welts always from the waist to ankle.
I have this skin condition that makes my skin look very different, and as a kid it was very obvious, it's not as bad now but still, kind of transparent.. when I was a kid I was very dark and had a lot of odd pigmentation, so I was obviously different, combined with my volatile family it wasn't hard to pick on me. I was the sensitive one, I learned to stay hidden. But if I hadn't had my family, I would've been all right. Because really, there was nothing that couldn't have been overcome if I'd been confident. I think that's why confidence means so much to me, now, why I'm trying to give it to my kids, and it really sucks when their "friends" deprive them of it by saying mean things. Kids can be so base, so mean, so like their parents. I look at the kids who're saying the worst things to my son, and I look at their parents, and I can see where it's coming from. I'm glad my son tells me these things. I can help him only when I know. Thanks, Toph, you helped me work this through. (Sigh) Why can't it all be easier?
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