From Diary of a Creep comments:
P. Stuart
Albany
It’s your attitude, not your condition. One of the most beautiful women I ever met had burns over 60% of her body. Everyone thought she was gorgeous. Her “scars” did not diminish her beauty. I’m sure if she acted less beautiful, people would have thought her less beautiful. Beauty really does radiate from within. Such is human psychology. Quit focusing on your physical self and start believing in your own inner beauty. The rest will take care of itself.
Jan. 7, 2013 at 5:38 p.m.
Peg
California
No, please, I’m sorry, but you’re saying that if you’re in any way “ugly,” you have a constant added job of performance art to function in the real world at all.
You have no idea how wearing that is for anyone. For someone whose income and life depends on being internally focused, or focused on information not social performance, it’s screaming h*ll: like insisting someone simultaneously listen to heavy metal while singing light opera. Or like trying to do complex math while talking to teenagers about pizza and movies.
Worse, it’s another way of blaming the victim: If he were only good enough, performed well enough, faked beauty convincingly enough, why no one would have any problem with him!
DanglingMan
MA
It’s NOT his attitude, it’s his condition. You blame the writer for not having the exceptional strength of a single person you met. Where’s your empathy? Oh, it’s lost in blaming the writer for his bad attitude.