Self discovery.

[lerhat]

So, last night as Sarah and I were laying in bed winding down from the night she complimented me on my teeth, said they were getting whiter. It surprised me because I haven't done anything to make them whiter, so I was kinda skeptical. She asked if she could take a picture to show me, and she would delete it after. I said okay.

When she showed me

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[nameless_cricke]

Man, I know how you feel on the smiling thing. I have an overbite, like a really bad overbite. I can put my thumb behind my front teeth and never feel my bottom lip, my teeth jut out so much. My teeth are pretty yellow in color, we've never known why but since my teeth are so brittle my guess is that my enamel is just really thin and that would explain the yellow tinge, I've had to have two molars on one side pulled because they just steadily got worse until they cracked, now I have two more on the other side where I'm missing over half of each tooth and a nerve is partially exposed, and I can tell that the ones next in line in front of those are going to go bad next. But I know just what it's like to not smile in public, and to always be hyper aware of your mouth and to always smirk or grin, never showing teeth. Those few pictures that friends have managed to get when I was caught unaware with my mouth a little open or with an awkward face revealing my teeth, I can't look at them, I want them not to exist but I'm not going to come

[lerhat]

That really meant a lot, thank you.

I have been feeling a lot better about myself lately, actually. I think it's because I don't care that I am big anymore. I'm still bothered by my teeth, but it's like I only have one obsessive thing I find wrong with myself now and it's like a weight has been lifted. So, it's getting better, even though the problem isn't being addressed yet.

I am the same way with the confidence. I'm paranoid that once a person sees my teeth they will judge me based on that and that it's all they think about or see when they look at me.

When I was a kid I had a really bad over bite. My bottom jaw had quit growing and they had to go in and break it and fix it, it was crazy. Hence the butt load of money my parents spent on dental work that I threw down the drain.