Yes I wanted my parents to sort it out for me and I cringe even writing that
Did you ask them though? Or did you just expect them to see that you needed it and sort it out?
Do you think about still getting it done?
I understand to some degree.
My parents had the ability to help my looks very early on as a child when my face could be coaxed with certain devices to grow properly and bad habits could have been annihilated.
Unfortunately they did not do that, even though it was obvious I was having problems and did not look like my brothers, cousins, or other children. I wasn't deformed or anything but my face was concerning in certain areas. When I look back, it looks like I have some type of syndrome being manifested physically. It is hard to look at and know that that child no longer exists and I cannot help them.
Whether it is irrational or not, I am angry at them for giving birth to me and then subsequently having two handsome boys right afterward, whose very existence tortures me to this day, as I have to be the ugly sibling.
I also feel they failed me, in that even though they couldn't control what I was going to look like upon being born, they could have put things into place that would have set me up to succeed with my looks-and thus life- instead of fail. They made a decision that made my situation worse later on, and after that they allowed another decision of my own (as a teenager) to come into fruition, which also ended badly. No research by them either time, no second opinions.
Then I had some bouts of bad luck on top of that and stress, lack of sleep, and crying to death every day does a number on you.
But they are where the problem began, and they had the power to change things properly when I was an innocent child.
Now all those doors they could have opened, have been shut on my face forever.
It is the fault of doctors and professionals as well who did not inform them, but at the end of the day, I didn't ask to be born.
My dad has spoken many times about how he hates his looks, so I don't understand why he had children with the possibility of one looking like him. And of course that ends up being me, his daughter.
I got both of my parents bad features and none of their good ones. As well as issues with breathing and my face and jaws growing properly.
It's a horrible existence honestly, with plenty of blame to go around.