Beautiful

[Aikko]

You stand with the gun in your hand
Staring at the wall with a look so sad
Thinking about who really cares
And will they even notice if I just disappeared
In one bang, blood rushed to the head
She'd rather fly through the sky than walk with the dead
She stays high while the world goes by
Just another day here waiting to die

But life is beautiful
Share a little love with the whole wide world
Every boy and girl sing along
When we sing why-o

Why-o

She cries but her man denies
It's funny how love comes with so many lies
He said he'd never do it again
So she puts on a smile and starts to pretend
And she hides all the pain inside
While filling up her arms with pretty little lines
She cuts with no intent to kill

This time she didn't do it
But someday she will

But life is beautiful
So share a little love with the whole wide world
Every boy and girl sing this song
When we sing why-o
Why-o
And hey, you're beautiful
And there's enough love for the whole wide world
Every boy and girl sing along
When we sing why-o
Why-o
And hey
I know that you can find a way
You're beautiful to me

No matter what the people say
It's all gonna be okay
You're beautiful to me

Too weak, too weary to try
Too angry inside, well so am I
I'm all alone with nobody else
I'm so in need of help, I keep reminding myself

That life is beautiful
So share a little love with the whole wide world
Every boy and girl sing along
When they sing why-o
Why-o
And hey, you're beautiful
And there's enough love for the whole wide world
Every boy and girl sing the song
When they sing why-o
Why-o
And hey
I know that you can find a way
You're beautiful to me
No matter what the people say
It's all gonna be okay
You're beautiful to me
It's all gonna end someday
It's all gonna fade away
You're beautiful to me
You're beautiful to me
You're beautiful to me
You're beautiful to me
You're beautiful to me
 

[Huggybear]

Every body is beautiful when you carry it right <3.

@shadowrider Youre beautiful buddy!

[shadowrider]

26 minutes ago, Huggybear said:

Every body is beautiful when you carry it right <3.

@shadowrider Youre beautiful buddy!

Thank you kindly.

You are beautiful too.

[Doodle]

I’m sitting here today with a swollen eye/cheek and blurred vision, so the lines:

“Beauty deeper than the eye can find,

Maybe we have made her blind”

hit home. I’ve spent my life feeling ugly - a word I don’t use about anyone else, unless I mean their character. Recently, my face feels like it has been assailed by one thing or another. And getting older hasn’t helped. I know that I would be quite different if I looked more “acceptable”, but it’s no good even being a natural smiler when people look you up and down first to decide whether you are worthy of one of their smiles in return, and decide you aren’t. I have cried in the street before because of a look from someone, but I moved past that stage and now just feel dismay, and a degree of frustrated boredom. That look has become so predictable - and I’m afraid I can’t unsee the unattractive hue it adds to the faces of those who wear it. It feels so unfair, because I don’t begrudge anyone their beauty, and I don’t tell myself that beautiful people have really nasty personalities anyway, because I know that there are many physically beautiful people out there who are also very kind and loving. Anyway, gotta go into work tomorrow and face down the unsuccessfully concealed little smirks from some who know they’re the bee’s knees! I think they also know, deep down, where they’ve buried it for their own sanity, that they couldn’t survive as an unattractive person, as some of us have to.

You know, whenever I’m feeling this at the time it’s happening, it feels like I’m totally in my little self, vulnerable and rejected; but, as I write about it now, in adult mode, I can just see my little self screwing up her face, sticking her tongue out at them and making a very naughty hand gesture towards them, before taking My hand and telling me they’re totally not worth it, and that she and Percy (her cuddly rabbit) love me and think I’m beautiful! So there!😊

[shadowrider]

Sounds like little you and Percy have it figured out, listen to them.

[EllieStar]

On 9/14/2025 at 8:40 PM, Doodle said:

I’m sitting here today with a swollen eye/cheek and blurred vision, so the lines:

“Beauty deeper than the eye can find,

Maybe we have made her blind”

hit home. I’ve spent my life feeling ugly - a word I don’t use about anyone else, unless I mean their character. Recently, my face feels like it has been assailed by one thing or another. And getting older hasn’t helped. I know that I would be quite different if I looked more “acceptable”, but it’s no good even being a natural smiler when people look you up and down first to decide whether you are worthy of one of their smiles in return, and decide you aren’t. I have cried in the street before because of a look from someone, but I moved past that stage and now just feel dismay, and a degree of frustrated boredom. That look has become so predictable - and I’m afraid I can’t unsee the unattractive hue it adds to the faces of those who wear it. It feels so unfair, because I don’t begrudge anyone their beauty, and I don’t tell myself that beautiful people have really nasty personalities anyway, because I know that there are many physically beautiful people out there who are also very kind and loving. Anyway, gotta go into work tomorrow and face down the unsuccessfully concealed little smirks from some who know they’re the bee’s knees! I think they also know, deep down, where they’ve buried it for their own sanity, that they couldn’t survive as an unattractive person, as some of us have to.

You know, whenever I’m feeling this at the time it’s happening, it feels like I’m totally in my little self, vulnerable and rejected; but, as I write about it now, in adult mode, I can just see my little self screwing up her face, sticking her tongue out at them and making a very naughty hand gesture towards them, before taking My hand and telling me they’re totally not worth it, and that she and Percy (her cuddly rabbit) love me and think I’m beautiful! So there!😊

Ah honey It saddens me to read this...first of all here's one (MASSIVE) hug!!! second of all 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' however some people can't manage to see past 'skin' to get to the good stuff (like chocolate). Just know that you are worthy and you are loved and SEEN! AND WE THINK YOU'RE GORGEOUS! I mean those eyes of yours! They're akin to stars and that heart of yours??? It makes those pretty eyes shine. So screw them. It truly is their loss for not being able to see the beauty that is YOU💙

[RoseyLittle]

It’s beautiful, and so so needed, to read all the wisdom and love in these posts. I’ve always struggled with a love/hate relationship to my body living with ehlers danlos.
 

My whole life I have moved in and out of injuries, crutches/canes and braces (some are for when injuries happen, others like my knee brace are to try and prevent them). It makes you a public spectacle for commentary.

The dislocations and sublexes themselves are difficult to go through for their own reasons (that could be a whole other post)…but for a long time I also struggled with the impact to my appearance. And how “different” I look than others. With injuries my weight can understandably fluctuate, I can loose muscle tone from being in braces for months at a time, and I often have no spoons (or sometimes actual physical ability) to do something as simple as brush my hair. Plus I get covered in braces and tape. My jaw dislocations being the worst as I get taped or wired up on my face (not to mention eating nothing but liquids for three months *shudder*). Trying to feel sexy or attractive with my braces needed me to challenge social stigmas, especially those around disability. It also helped that Daddy learned how to do my hair for me…well at least a ponytail. *laughs*
 

It took a long time for me to not feel like my body was constantly betraying me, and to learn to love it for what it is. And it’s a daily practice with me to not feel shy and insecure about my braces. Writing this I realized I almost always take them off for photos, some still ingrained stigma. And when I’m in active injury, I withdraw from my world and social media because I have this instinct that I look awful (and I’m so vulnerable).
 

Most days now, I can feel beautiful for exactly who I am and am also thankful for the gifts EDS has given me in terms of resiliency. But sometimes I struggle and want to refuse my braces, throw them on the floor in a fit, and just leave the house looking “normal” (which is such a problematic concept to begin with)…which is why it’s helpful to have a Daddy who makes brace wearing a rule! 
 

Im going to come back to this thread on the hard days…and I think I will make a commitment to post more pictures with my braces! ♥️

 

And I want to just give a shout out to everyone who needs to hear it that you are so achingly beautiful! That all bodies are amazing and interesting. That beauty is so much more than the surface. And that as an artist, it’s always the imperfections that make something more beautiful and real.

[shadowrider]

@RoseyLittle Thank you for sharing. 

I spent months in compression and tensioning/flexion gear after an accident. I quickly got tired of adults trying to look away or make their kids stop staring and asking questions. So I went to my local airbrush artist and plopped down and said be creative. He was excited to have total freedom and went nuts free handing some insane designs. After that there were few people that could just glance and not have questions when they saw the wires and mechanics that made it look like a cyborg. Today that might be called passive aggression but if you're gonna stare and whisper about me I'm gonna give you a reason. After that people seemed to be more willing to ask what happened or at least comment on the art, which is way better than pretending you're not gonna talk about me the minute you walk off. I would much rather you ask me about my scars than pretend they don't exist while trying to steal glances.

 Sometimes we just have to approach things in a new way and not let others strange behaviors steal our joy. Walk proud and let others talk.

[Lil_K47]

I have struggled with my weight my whole life. I would never say I was like morbidly obese but I've always been overweight. I was teased really bad in middle school, bullying at its finest. Instead of Kendra they were calling me  "tundra"   and since I was raised to treat everyone the way I want to be treated, I have absolutely no skills in defending myself! I remember one time my mom and her best friend were trying to teach me quick witty comebacks, and I remember being in seventh grade and in the moment the only thing I could come up with was "your cruising for a brusin"  because I had just watched Greece! You could probably imagine how well that one over with the kids! 

Nowadays I am very thankful that social media wasn't around when I was at that age because I can't even begin to imagine if I was bullied like that then,  how bad it would've been with social media! 

I'm definitely still self-conscious just because of past bullying, but the older I've got the less it botheres me, so I can' say that at least. 

I've recently been fitted for a brace for my foot drop (which I pick up Tuesday) I gotta say I was really apprehensive when I went to the fitting, thinking I was just gonna absolutely hate it. But the second I put that sucker on and I realized how much better I could walk I was like I'm gonna wear this damn thing with pride! It's actually the same material that they make the running prosthetics out of. So it's super thin and lightweight, and somehow it feels like it has a bit of bounce to it with the way it's made. 

Physical beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think what's really matters is if we're beautiful on the inside! Looks can change, weight can go up and down, but your personality is what really makes you shine! 

Y'all are lovely people be proud of that! 

[shadowrider]

Congrats on the new pep to your step and glide to your stride you're adding . And keep shining.