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My physical appearance makes everyone laugh at me when i walk down the street or going in stores. Ive talked to a therapist. And they said. Take an objective look at when they smile at me. And instead of " theyre smiling at me because...." Just simply say " they smiled at me." And leave it at that. But its incredibly hard when its obvious im a malformation.
 

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My physical appearance makes everyone laugh at me when i walk down the street or going in stores. Ive talked to a therapist. And they said. Take an objective look at when they smile at me. And instead of " theyre smiling at me because...." Just simply say " they smiled at me." And leave it at that. But its incredibly hard when its obvious im a malformation.

i'm so sorry to hear that people are being so cruel. The best is to take God's word and let it defend you. When you take in God's love for you then you will no longer hurt when people laugh at you and you will get respect for yourself no matter what you look like.

i refer here in particular to Psalm 139. Get these truths into you and believe them with all your heart. i know a little what it means to have people laugh at you, that has happened to me as well not because of how i look but because of how i am, a mentally ill person who can be completely off the planet because my mind is to sick to know better. i let God's truth comfort me. i hope you can as well

Psalms 139
You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.


Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.



For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.



If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
 
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My physical appearance makes everyone laugh at me when i walk down the street or going in stores. Ive talked to a therapist. And they said. Take an objective look at when they smile at me. And instead of " theyre smiling at me because...." Just simply say " they smiled at me." And leave it at that. But its incredibly hard when its obvious im a malformation.
I get where your coming from, it's not easy to think of something as something ells, especially when it causes difficulties and pain.
 
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I have the same problem. But it's not only the looks. I can hear people talking about me. One time an entire table was mocking me at a restaurant. It was humiliating.

I hate when therapists tell you not to over-analyze things
 
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