I Always think..

[ohayla11289]

to look at people's arms. to see if they have scars, and if they wear long sleeves all the time i'm convinced its because they are hiding something. its weird, anyone else like this?


for example, this kid who is in a couple of my classes, he was wearing long sleeves today, and i saw scratches on the back of his neck, like one was horizontal and another crossed it and made an x. they looked pretty straight and there were like 4ish of them and i was thinking to myself oh it must be SI. but then i was like i honestly doubt it, i'm just easily convinced. haha, maybe i'm just crazy.

[flying_kiwifruit]

No your not crazy. There is one girl in my year who is always in long sleeves and I can't help but wonder if she SI's. I dont think she would, but you never know for sure.

[-Shae-Lynn*]

I always look for scars on people and question their chlothing. Especially on people who are more the "typical" look of a cutter (yes I know I am steryotyping) I always look for scars. At my school about 17% of the population (I did a mental health project last year and that was on of the questions) has used SI to cope and so I'm always looking.

[melda]

Yeh, I always look at people's arms to see if they cut and if they dont have cuts, I wonder if they have any elsewhere where I cant see them. I also find myself wondering what other people's arms would look like if they did have cuts on. I suppose its because when I was in hospital, all the girls went about in short sleeved shirts and it became the norm to have cuts and scars on your arm, so its always something I look out for.

[xbeckyx]

Yup I always look too, espcially if they usually wear long sleeved things.

[roseanne]

I look at people's arms as well, I don't do it constantly, but I often just quickly check.

[Alawjones]

I check most of the tiem too. theres a boy in my class who wears his jumper always. he never takes it off, even when its boinling..so i don't know :/


but yeah it's normal thing to do :]

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[musicmad123]

yeeeep actually there's a girl I've been looking at for a while know that always seems to wear sleeves or a jumper, ok it's like Autumn but still. Then again I have long periods where I don't cut on my arms at all, only my thighs so who knows who's doing that and easily getting away with it. And I wear short sleeves with lightly scarred arms, I find that a bit weird that in hospital all the girls went around with their scars on show, we were asked to wear a bandage or sleeves to cover them up incase we offended another patient.

[Insouciance]

Yep, all the time. I've got worse lately - yesterday there was a girl at my bus stop in a short sleeved top but she'd bought a bottle of bio oil and was reading the packaging. It made me wonder it she was cutting elsewhere....

[easier to lie]

I look also. I think I do it because I just want to know if I'm alone in all this.

[Devil Girl]

I do look too! I do sometimes notice people aswell, which actually shocks me!

I noticed the other night a girl in halls, who had some old scars on her thighs...she had said that previously she had some problems but things were all good now...I just didn't want to mention it!

I remember in London noticing a girl with obvious scars...my friend said she didn't even notice, I guess those who cut etc are more likely to notice!

Devil x

[Sweetest Downfall]

I always do this. at my new college, i have noticed uncountable amounts of people with obvious SI scars, a few with unsure whether they are from SI and a few in long sleeved tops that I can imagine would...i look at everyones arms...i'm a bit of an arm stalker lol

[lasting]

i always do this... people prolly think its weird that im always staring at their arms lol. one time i thought i saw some on one of my friends arms (none of my friends know about my si) and i freaked out. i didn't say anything to him but ever since then i've been especially observent of things like that. a lot of times i'll think i see scars that could be si, but i'm not sure. even if i was sure, i don't think i would have the guts to talk to them or anything, it would just be comforting to know i'm not alone.

[Freedom Fighter]

yep i look at peoples arms all the time

[PrincessVegeta_x]

I check people's arms too.

Today, as I was traveling back home on the train, there were two girls wearing arm warmers and wristbands, and I was thinking to myself that they must be cutters.

I don't know. I never found out. But, it's just a force of habit. It's more likely that the arm warmers were just for fashion, not for hiding cuts...

[[pretty on the inside]]

I always look at people who are wearing arm warmers or whatever and think, I wonder if...? I also look at what people are eating obssessively and see if they're checking labels and trying to deceive people in the same ways that i do. It's a little sad, really, but I can't really help it. I just want to know if there are other people like me or if I'm the only one.

[Kvieta Vindi]

I have to admitt that I do check other people's arms for scars. There's this one girl on my bus- I guess some would consider her my friend, but I really just talk to her sometimes- that has scars all over the top of her arm. You can barely see them, and I just happened to notice one day. They were all perfectly straight aligned, and it makes me wonder if she used to SI. I wouldn't dare ask her though.

[Sweet~Insanity]

Yeah, i do it too. Especially is they have on bracelts, armwarmers, that stuff, you know? i think i just want to see if they do it and if they do it is it for real or is just the light stuff? it seems no one else s doing it as....bad.