Dunno if you read these posts, or just post, but...
Haven't seen that vid (wherever it is), but there is a
VERY FINE LINE between "normal" and "not normal" (or "abnormal", even "freakish"). "Big" really just means big
GER, small is just smal
LER. Its all relative, not absolute.
No, not at all, its
perfectly reasonable to feel the way you do, as you have
BDD.
Too small for what? Looking at? To be honest, i don't think
anybody on here "cares" about what your hands look like. My hands aren't perfect, bit big, bony. I know i'm male, but I view my hands as
tools first and foremost, and anything that i feel after that is just superficiality.
I've said it before, and i'll say it again, your unhapiness is
NOT solely due just to your "hands issue", it is due to your mind being singularly
obsessed with it (which is what BDD is all about), to the point where you're shutting almost everything else "normal" out.
At least some of them may never forgive you...
"Freak" is a very strong word, and i never use it, as its simply not accurate, and has too much emotional connotations/baggage connect to it. At worst you're just a person, with a few issues, and with a few bodily aspects that are a "bit different" than the norm. If you're going to label yourself as a "freak", then what on earth would you then label
The Elephant Man with?. A "monster"?
Megan
delights in having a different-looking thumb - she
flaunts it!. And if she & her thumb were ever to "approach" me, i would not hold it against her, and would try my absolute, very best to be "accommodative" towards her (but for sure my SA/etc would arrange things so that
I would the the one being rejected, for my lack in social abilities!)
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Basically, every person has been dealt a "hand" in life (no pun intended). Whether you've been dealt a Royal Flush, 4 Aces, a pair of Jacks, or just minors, or whatever, is just the "luck of the draw". It's probably not fair, but "luck" never is fair - it's independent of "fairness", it's indifferent one way or the other.
It seems that one of your major life lessons is that you need to learn to "accept" yourself
irrespective of whatever flaws/deficiencies you have. In life, flaws/imperfections exist, differences exist - in
absolutely everything,
nothing is immune. Anybdy who expects or demands to be totally free of all flaws is misguided, and will be frustrated as they never will be free of such. If you did not have your hands issue, then you most likely would have simply created
another thing about yourself to be miserable about, as you'd still have the same brain/mind.
Your misery is due to bad feelings, which is due to your
negative thoughts -
FULL-STOP. You think the negative thoughts, you feel the bad feelings, you
believe they're caused by your hands, this adds to the bad feelings & negatve thoughts ..... and so on. A vicious cycle.
What i think you need to do at this point, is to at least a few times every day, do something that will
remove your thoughts/mind off your problems. There are many, many activities that will provide this for you - all you need to do is to
do them. Perhaps you might benefit from some form of meditation?. This will give you a "breather" every day, time to "recoupperate" somewhat from the stress & suffering, as nobody can "function" if their stress is ever-present.