Do most people not know about SH?

I´ve kinda recently been asked about my scars from two people that I was in some way acquainted with, and they had absolutely no idea that it was SH, I dont think they would even ask if they knew, cuz some people dont ask.

One of them legit went "Woah dude, what happened to your arm??" with great concern, and when I responded with "Oh this is self harm" they went totally silent after going oh.. and its situations like these where I have to awkwardly pretend that Im doing fine, because now it feels like I have to console them about my scars lol

I wanna mention that I dont care that people ask, I am aware walking around with my arms free will get looks and questions, but I honestly thought it was VERY obvious that the scars on my arms are from SH, and apparently its not, because the people who asked me about it genuinely seemed shocked when I tell them its not from some bear attack lol

Is it really not obvious to most people?

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u/stinky_toade — 1 day ago

Doing badly

I´m sorry to be so dark w these, but Im doing pretty bad and Im aware that I´ll be doing much worse soon because this is my first time starting uni, and Ive always had such a hard time intergrating into new social spaces and Im also not very school smart, so im scared people will see me as a dumbass.

Not to mention how getting deadnamed and all that over the vacation didnt really help either, or made me feel relaxed whatsoever. Legit every single day Ive just been having vivid day dreams about my arms fully bleeding because of how shit ive been feeling every day its insane.

u/stinky_toade — 9 days ago

yea..

I legit thought it was like a movie thing, yknow when parents say its "just a phase" but then my mom legit used those exact words when I came out as enby. I remember in my head being like she really just fucking said that holy fuck, what the fuck??

Anyways who needs accepting parents who don´t deadname or give you intense dysphoria amiright

u/stinky_toade — 9 days ago
▲ 253 r/plushies

I sort clothes/items for second hand stores and stumbled upon this cutie

She’s definitely coming home with me!

u/stinky_toade — 2 months ago

for once Im proud of some art Ive made and this is my favorite place to post my art. coming home to my messy apartment today after making this, I was kinda hopeful because I feel as tho me living this way and wanting to die makes me better at art, or maybe Im just coping. I spent 6 hours in total on this, the first pic to the left was after 3 hours, the model was really pretty! probably one of my favorite kinda noses to draw.

u/stinky_toade — 4 months ago