Looks are a factor. However I'm now noticing my social skills and personality is completely shit! And has been for a while. I always thought it was looks, yes they are very important because if I didn't have severe acne I wouldn't have been a target for bullies in middle school and high school. However my brain is shit! And my personality is shit and social skills. I am so boring and suck at conversation and I hate myself for it even more. I can't ever begin a conversation, I wait for others to talk to me. I can't read social cues and people's body language. I suck all around and I'm even more screwed now after alcohol abuse and anti depressants for years that damaged my brain more, plus the bullying traumas, anxiety.
I didn't know how important social skills were until now. Just at 28 I'm relaxing how important it is. I'm also not a fast learner because if I was I would have asked for help earlier on to fix my social skills and social anxiety. Maybe I'd be more at ease with chatting with people. I really suck socially like really badly. Nervous laughter, cringe face expressions, uttering small words here and there like "yeah," and "oh okay" and "mhmm" is all I can respond with. My brain doesn't process and ask people questions. I really suck and it's making me feel worse on how important this was, I was so stressed about my looks. I also am incredibly negative and see the ugly in everything and expect the worse in everyone and expect to be attacked by people I sabotage what the universe brings me and ruins it because of my own brain. Bullying really messed me up and acne destroyed my self esteem and social confidence now I ruined my blessings in my 20s and I won't make it. I want to be sociable and neurotypical and friendly and upbeat.
I envy that beautiful energy they have, to move about people socially and be so comfortable not stressed withdrawn and worried in the mind. I don't think I felt that since 13. I need to die I'm a hollow shell and in this world but no longer of it completely detached and disconnected. I can't ever go back and feel my emotions and authentic self it's broken and covered in so much traumas my youth was robbed and my social self.