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How do you stop caring what people think? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by DisabledAceSocialist@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
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Now that I'm able to go back out a bit, I feel really embarrassed because I look rough as hell. My hair is falling out, I've got bad oedema so I'm swollen and puffy, my skin is destroyed, all red and covered in eczema and various infections. Yesterday in the supermarket I got mistaken for a man, and it's not even the first time it has happened. A little kid was blocking my path and her mum said, "Mind out of the way, a man is trying to get past." I've had a shop attendant previously say "here you go, sir," when handing me my item. I've had random strangers loudly make fun of the way I walk (I have problems walking since having a stroke) and an older couple even laughed and made fun of me after one of my foot surgeries because I was wearing plastic shoe cover bags on my feet instead of shoes.

I just feel so embarrassed going out at all but I hate being stuck indoors.

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[–] DisabledAceSocialist@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 week ago

I once answered back to a group of boys who insulted my appearance and got beaten around the head with a lead pipe in retaliation so I don't think I'll confront anyone again.