27 Women Ask The Question They’ve Always Wanted To Know About Men (And 27 Men Answer)

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10. LOCKER ROOM TALK

Q:  “Going through puberty, were you self-conscious about how you looked in the boy’s locker room? Did the other guys make fun of you?”
—Drink-my-koolaid

A: “I was an early developer so I got a bit of shit for having hair and ‘a massive man-dick,’ to quote one lad. It was easily deflected, though… ‘Why are you looking? Like what you see?’ I was self-conscious as hell about it for a while, though.

Funny what you get mocked for as a kid.

Interestingly it was the class bully that stopped them…he bizarrely and with no self-awareness whatsoever decided it was out of order to mock people for things they couldn’t help.

So my penis helped someone become a better person…yeah.”
—brsmith77

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Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino

Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.

Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino

Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.

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