Once some guy mentioned that when i laugh my mouth looks really weird and now whenever i laugh around people i don’t know 100% i cover my lower face with my hands.
A girl who didn’t like one of my friends told her that her eyes squint different sizes when she smiles, and now whenever she’s happy she look’s down or away.
You’ve gotta be careful with what you say to people, because it might turn their happiness into insecurities.
I hate how people have this way of making you feel small
Like once these two girls made fun of how i said a certain word or something and my voice is now one of the things i hate most about myself. i’m self-conscious of it like 24/7 and am terrified of speaking in public (for that and other reasons)
You never know what comments you make that will still be running through someone’s head years later
Someone said my voice sounded like Mickey Mouse like five years ago (I think they meant it to be funny) and I still think of it all the time.
Someone told me that short girls could only be cute, not beautiful, and if I had a nickle for every time I repeated it I’d be fucking rich.
A bunch of people told me that the way I spoke (I used to sound like an academic when I was like ten or thirteen, because of a lot of reasons including the fact that I’m socially a bit incapable) made me sound arrogant and condescending and bitchy. I literally altered my entire speech pattern to sound more colloquial.
Seriously. Be careful what you say to people.