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Originally posted by AXOLiz
I don't know if any of the rest of you have experienced this, but they treat me so much better now. It's always, "Ohhhhh I'm sooo happy to see you, you look sooooooo great, it's really amazing how much better you look blah blah blah."
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Ohhhhh, yes. This reminds me of what happened when I went to one of my out-of-state cousins' weddings in high school. See, I looked like a complete dork all through middle school and the first year of high school, with these big glasses and scary '80s hair (hey, I'm from eastern KY, all right?). So then at the end of my freshman year, I got contacts and grew out my hair, but of course my out-of-state relatives didn't know that because we only got together once in a blue moon. Well, my cousin has this big wedding, and I went with my parents...and my aunt and uncle didn't even recognize me. They were like, "Who the hell is THAT?" I liked the reaction, because people just ignored me before, but all of a sudden everyone was being soooooo nice to me and introducing me to all these people, and then my cousin remarked to my parents that if she'd known "how much I'd grown up"--meaning, how much better I looked--she would have asked me to be a bridesmaid, too. (My older sister was a bridesmaid and my younger sister was the flower girl.) That sort of ticked me off because it was like saying, "Well, you weren't good enough before, but now that you don't look like a white female version of Steve Urkel, you're OK." Geez.
But that's a shame about your mom--I think she's jealous! She should be supporting you instead of trying to make you insecure.