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Why this board is triggering to me.From: mj (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:41:38 -0500 (CDT)
I post very infrequently here. The reason being not because i dislike this board but because it is too triggering to me. I am 33 and was diagnosed with pcos 3 years ago. Like many pcos, i am obese, have a beard i shave, no periods ect. When my chin hairs turned into a beard around the age of 27 it was devestating to me. Not because i was horrified it but i viewed it as one more thing society wont accept about me. You see i was born with a form of autisum, i went threw school is special ed. Acceptance was never part of me life. by the time i was in my 20's i no longer left my bedroom. Panic attacks and agoraphobia had clamed my life. My family hated me they found me to be one of the most unacceptable things on the planet. I was diagnosed with a large tumor, have had many surgeries, early stage cancer..in and out of hospitals. Even in the mental hospital. Why am I telling you all this?? Because one day i had had enough and it took a long long time, but i got better. I got a job, left my bedroom, went to college, learned to drive. At the age of 28 i was reborn. but i could only be reborn when i accomplished one thing, self acceptance. I started by threwing out my medicine cabinet full of hair removal products. I bought a good razor and decided i would shave everymorning at that was it. I would not be defined by my 6' o clock shadow. Of course this was only one change i made in my life. I no longer think much about my facial hair. just shave every morning and begin my day. But when i come here i get sad when i read so many posts about hair removal and comments like "what would i do if i ever ended up in the hospital and couldn't shave". We are taught to think facial hair is unacceptable on a women. I would like someday for society to view it as not acceptable or unacceptable but just another characteristic variety of the human race. so that is why i get triggered here. I would so like to see more of a focus here of self acceptance. We can do our part to change societal views by challenging our own thoughts and sharing it on the forum sincerley mj
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