From my boyfriend, at the time. I would've just interpreted it as honest confusion or lack of understanding, except that when I offered to explain it to him, he said he didn't want to know.
Lovely.
"You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself." -Shevek, The Dispossessed(Ursula K. LeGuin)
someone done that to me on a bus once, i shouted back i hope something happens in your life that makes you want to cut yourself. The year after her father hung himself. Did i feel guilty? Hell yes!
'you're just attention seeking, they're not bad enough for anything else'
( someone on seeing my scars)
i know my self harm isnt serious but that's cos right now i have control people saying stuff like this only gives my bad side ammo.
"Why don't I? It's not like it will give you any more scars than you already have!"
"You're such an emo, you're always cutting yourself and getting everyone's attention! 'Just look at me and how rubbish my life is!'"
"If you don't share your sweets with me I'll be so depressed I'll go and cut myself!"
"As I'm a Christian I'm not allowed to talk to people who are sad and cut themselves!"
"Doesn't it hurt?"
The last one makes me laugh :P
'Dreams are like angels
They keep bad at bay.
Love is the light
Scaring darkness away.'
Person in an exam:
"Who did that to you?" (awkward)
My mam said that to me before, when we were on holiday and there was no one else who could possibly have done it to me cos I hadnt seen anyone else. I was just like eh hello? Obviously I did it to myself. I didn't actually say that but I was thinking it.
"you're a complete ****ing lunatic, i dont want to sleep in the same house as you. how will i sleep without one eye open? how do i know you wont be coming to hurt me?!"
I don't totally think that this is an inappropriate thing to say because it shows that they're looking beyond the issue of self-harm and trying to be understanding. Okay, if they bug you about it then fair enough, but I'd say that this is more of a good thing to be asked.
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: 'This glass is half full'. And then there are those who say: 'This glass is half empty'.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
I was working out in the greenhouse at work with short sleeves on and a lady came to the till to pay for her plants and said while staring at my arm, "They let crazy people work here now...well I'm going inside to pay then."
Apparently the lady complained to customer service about not feeling comfortable with me working there. The girl at customer service is nice though so she totally stood up for me. I don't know what that lady was so worried about, its not like I'm going to go all axe murderer on her while no ones looking.
"Some people get by, with a little understanding. Some people get by, with a whole lot more."
When i was buying some FA supplies from boots once i was waiting in the que, which was quite long i wanted a women to go infront so she wouldn't guess why but she was having none of it. Then the cashier serving me saw me as i was walking up to her and said to the other cashier ' comes from the nut house she does'.
Only one of my friends knows, and I hate when I'm with other friends and they make self harm jokes.
"Down the road, not across the street!"
Then when one friend didn't understand the joke, I had to explain it.
I also hate when you're in a group of people and someone makes SH jokes, because you feel like you have to laugh along.
Oh i love this thread, but its so sad to see how ignorant people and the health system are :(
One i get from my mother all the time is ''What's This?''
She knows exactly what it is, what the hell am i suppose to say to that?
Another one i always get from my GP is ''You should try excercise more! I garuntee you'll feel tonnes better for it!''
Um yeah, ive tried that and you of all people should know that it is not he answer for everyone :/ Infact it often makes me worse
Urgh and i often get the usual, why, what about me, your selfish, blablabla kind of guilt trips people love aswell :/
