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Originally Posted by ProjectX  There is one thing about my body that is really bordering me and has really affected my social life and made me shy.
I have a receding chin.
Sometimes I try to hide it but its really difficult for me to have conversations with other people because of it. It was caused as a result of having to breathe a lot through my mouth when sleeping as a young kid because of a deviated septum. I have thought a lot about getting it fixed but it can be costly thus the delay.
I just don't know what to do about it. |
You basically have two choices: go through plastic surgery, or accept yourself and move on.
If you choose to accept yourself, you'll realize that you can live a perfectly normal life without bothering too much about your chin, or by your other physical imperfections - or by other people's imperfections, for that matter.
As Andy already pointed, people probably just don't take as much interest in your chin as you'd think they do. When you have thoughts about it, it's easy to project those thoughts onto everyone you meet, and imagine that they're thinking the same thing.
Have people noticed it? Yes, the probably have (if it's obvious). Do they care about it one tenth as much as you do? Probably not. And the less self-conscious about it you become, the less they'll probably notice it.
Most people are thinking about themselves almost all the time. While you stand there and worry about what someone else thinks about your chin, the guy next to you may be worrying what people think about his accent, the next girl you meet is quite possibly worried what you think about her "assets", and so forth.
It's human nature to be self-obsessed. When we become aware of this fact - and once we learn a little more about who we are, and accept ourselves for who we are - we can start to relax and direct our attention towards our surrounding environment.
I'm guessing that surgery is expensive, although that's always an option if you wanted to go down that road.