My unusual experience with face dysmorphia: does anyone else experience this?

I (19F) have struggled with body dysmorphia since I was 13. At first it was in the more usual sense of feeling "ugly", etc., but recently it has developed into an inability to perceive my own face. It is very difficult to put this into words, and I was wondering if anyone else experiences this. The best way I could describe it is that I don't know what my own face looks like. I cannot imagine my face, I can only recall how it looks on certain pictures. And I also have this thing where I believe I look like a different person on every picture. Like, to the point where I believe if I didn't know that the picture was of me, I wouldn't know that the person on it is me. This kinds connects to this other aspect which is thinking that I'm a "catfish" even though I don't wear heavy makeup and don't use filters: this makes me think that if I showed someone two different pictures of myself, they wouldn't be able to tell it's the same person. I don't have any other mental illnesses, and I don't actually believe I look like many different people. The way I see it is that maybe after years of hating myself, my brain stopped perceiving me as a sort of self defense. Also, I don't think anymore that I'm ugly. From outside experiences, and from looking in the mirror I can tell that I'm attractive. I don't know if this makes any sense or if anyone else experiences this. It's such an odd feeling, and I was wondering if anyone has dealt with something similar. Thanks for reading!

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u/No_Term_8851 — 1 day ago
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Can I continue my driving lessons in a different country?

Location: Hungary, Czech Republic

I'm sorry if this is not the right sub for this but I wasn't sure where to ask. I'm (19F) trying to get my license. I passed the theory test already, and I've had 12 driving lessons in Hungary, my home country. However, I'm moving to the Czech Republic for university, and I won't be able to finish the lessons by September. I was wondering if it is possible to continue my lessons there? It wouldn't be a huge issue if the already taken hours can't be transferred, as I'm okay with starting again with the driving lessons. Again I'm sorry if this doesn't count as a legal question, I'm not super familiar with these things. Thank you so much for reading!

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u/No_Term_8851 — 1 day ago
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Weird random accounts that try to follow you

I don't use Instagram that much and I'm a bit paranoid so sorry if this sounds stupid, but what could explain a random account that has no followers and like 30 following, gibberish name and bio, and it has the Discord loading GIF as a pfp I don't have anyone blocked so there is no reason for anyone to use a fake acc to see my profile. What could be the reason they try to follow me? They did it twice in the span of a few days and now I just blocked them. Again, I'm sorry if this is not that deep, I just found it odd and wondered if there is an explanation like it's just a bot or something. Thanks for reading!

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u/No_Term_8851 — 10 days ago
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I feel like I was sexually abused but I feel invalid because of the circumstances

When I was 10-11 years old, I was sat next to a boy in school. We were kinda friends, but in that grade he started doing this thing where he slapped my butt during PE and stuff, or just stared at it very hard. It didn't really bother me, I was a pretty innocent kid and I didn't make much of it. Then he started doing other things while we were sitting next to each other, many of them I don't remember because I somehow blocked out many parts of that year from my memory. But what I remember is him standing behind me to touch my butt, constantly reaching between my legs or grabbing my thigh, or my breasts. He didn't really do this in secret, I remember instances when there were other boys and he would just jokingly try touching my breasts and I was fighting him off and the others laughed, and I remember I was laughing too, which is like, what if I actually liked it? And it came to the point where I was so scared of him I was promising to write his homework and help him on tests if he stopped, but he didn't. Then we came to the point in the year where the seat arrangement changed, and I was so happy, but they ended up not changing ours, and I just remember I was crying so hysterically that I had to go home from school. Not long after I switched to a different school, not for these reasons tho. I remember also that I was thinking it couldn't have been that bad, because there was this lady sitting behind us always, she was the helper of this disabled boy, and she saw parts of it and kinda laughed it off (not to blame her at all). After and a bit during that for half a year I had this thing where I showered in complete darkness and I even closed my eyes, and I wouldn't touch my body with my bare hands. I also developed anorexia which became pretty serious, and I had very unhealthy relations with boys, when I was 13 with a 16 year old boy who said he will love me if I send him nude pictures. I feel like I am somehow broken from this, that I ignored it for too long after. And I also feel like I'm stupid and overdramatic, since he was just a child too and he didn't understand either probably. I'm sorry for the long post I just had to get this off my chest.

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u/No_Term_8851 — 3 months ago