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❝But you don't look at me like everyone else… I just want to scream sometimes. I look and they look away, like I don't feel their eyes on me. Let's get this out of the way. Yes, it covers my eyelid too. And no, it doesn't hurt, not in the way people think it does. Listen, I could have a lot worse things than a birthmark covering my body, but that's hard to swallow when I look in the mirror to fix my hair, or when I look at my sisters. You know that I can vividly remember my first day of kindergarten? I wore a light blue dress, and I was there for no more than ten minutes before some boy asked me what was wrong with my face. It was the first time I realized that I had something to be ashamed of. It's nothing I can run away from. What that boy asked me when I was five-years-old is what people want to ask me every day of my life. I wake up every morning with a pit in my stomach. Dreading the day ahead. No matter how old I get the feeling never goes away… and whenever I have to meet someone for the first time, I'm always going to be that five-year-old girl again.❞ Abby is a third year college student, studying film. Though outwardly friendly, she suffers from crippling self-esteem issues due to the large birthmark that covers almost half of her body, from the top of her head down to the tips of her toes. She's actually a very reserved and fragile girl who copes every day with the fact that she'll never be normal. ----- when played post-canon abby also has chemical burns and skin discoloration on her right arm and leg from bathing in bleach. |
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