I'm very fair-skinned, and generally not self-conscious about it... except in the summer. It doesn't help that everyone around me is a deep amber or brown, but it's so much worse when some people feel the need to COMMENT on how pale I am. Every year it's the same. I'm always too angry to keep my mouth shut and I curse at them in a blind mixture of rage and anxiety, but sometimes the things they say make me want to stay in my house all summer.
I don't mean to sound self-pitying, but it seems I'm doomed to always have my appearance commented on negatively in one way or another, whether it's my skin, my age, my hands, my feet, my height. And of course I've had other things jabbed at too. None of these people were ever perfect, of course. I often wonder if I'm a sad exception, or everyone gets picked apart this much?
