[ SECRET POST #2742 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2742 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

17. http://i.imgur.com/2z682ar.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

No no, I can understand that. I used to think scars would be a big deal, too. What a relief it was to learn that nobody cares.

[duaedesigns]

Scars in fiction are A Big Deal and a Signifier of Emotional Trauma and generally no one ever just happens to have obvious scars because life happens.

I have a pretty big burn scar on my left arm and this always bugged me. It's not a particularly interesting story (toddlers laugh at your toddlerproofing) it's not something that bothers me, and honestly most people don't even seem to notice.

[othellia]

Yes, I still have a thin burn scar on my left arm as well from when I wasn't the most careful taking some cookies out of the oven. I fail at tragic backstories.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm worse. I have a light, thin slash scar on one forearm, and for the life of us neither me nor anyone in my family can remember how the hell it got there. I've had the thing for years, and no-one can remember me having a deep/bad enough cut across the arm that would account for it (it's about an inch and a half long).

My other scars are from a dog bite (on my hand, and it wasn't even a vicious dog, it was my dog miscalculating force when taking a biscuit as a puppy) and that time I fell off my bike crookedly and rammed the end of the handlebar into my chin. Left a nice crescent shape, that one, I was actually really fond of it. It's mostly faded now, more's the pity.

[othellia]

Huh.

I have this mole on my shoulder, been there as long as I can remember. One day when I was about seventeen, my mom saw it and freaked out. She was like "when did that get there?!?!! what if it's cancer!?!?!? we need to get you to a hospital!?!?!?!"

She didn't seem to believe me that, "No, Mom. It's been there forever."

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn't have to be a bad cut to cause a scar. I'm allergic to pine trees and lightly scratched my arm on a Christmas tree once, and still have the scar 15 years later. It looks just like I was cut with a thin blade but actually it's just because the allergic reaction fucked up the healing.

[grish]

I have no idea how I got my scars either. They're just these short little things that I have in a couple spots on my hands and wrist. Paper cuts, maybe?

[duaedesigns]

As someone said with the pine tree, scars are strange. I have one on the back of my forearm where I was curious. I had startled the cat, cat made two scratches over the back on my arm. My mother had been insisting that Tea Tree oil was basically Swiss Army Mana and cured/helped everything from papercuts to cancer, so I did an experiment. I dabbed tea tree Oil over one of the scratches, and left the other alone.

The tea tree oil one scarred up, the untreated one healed and faded like normal.

[otakugal15]

I have like...5-6 burn scars on my arms due to mishaps with the oven. I have a very light thin one on my hand from when I slipped with a parring knife, and I have some graphite still logged under the skin in my right hand from when I accidentally stabbed a sharpened pencil into the palm.

All very dramatic, yes.

[(Anonymous)]

I fail at tragic backstories.

You could make something up! It could even involve cookies...

Most scars are really not all that interesting, in my experience.

[nyxelestia]

I have some irritating scars in that my left arm is covered in them. Most of them are part of the sad story of when I used to cut myself as a teenager. The biggest one, though, is from a hilarious story of falling out of a tree and landing on a rock around the same time-frame. The rest of the scars on my arms are from the time I skydived off a couch as a toddler and broke an arm and a leg (literally) - this is also a funny story because the first thing I did after coming back from the hospital was try to skydive off the couch again. (Presumably, even at that age, I did not want to be defeated by furniture).

And for years, I had a big scar on the same arm from when I hugged a fully-heated clothing iron as a toddler. I'm kind of sad it's gone, now, my left arm could use more scars with funny stories. :P

...come to think of it, I was a very dumbass toddler...

*also tried to hug an iguana*

[(Anonymous)]

I have a vertical scar on my wrist from trying to open the battery casing on a toy motor. ._. When the cover finally came off it scraped off a line of skin.

[kallanda_lee]

Yeah, this so much. Fortunately most people in real life don't give a fuck an people you sleep with often even less, because they're too busy being awkward and naked themselves.

Yeah, most scars aren't a big deal.

[(Anonymous)]

And questions about them are usually simple to answer, in that most people don't inquire further upon being told things like: appendix, the knife slipped, car accident, fell off my bike, etc. People are usually only mildly curious, so while the circumstances in which you got the scar might loom large in your mind, they don't necessarily in others.

[wldcatsprstr_14]

I recently spent a large portion of my first pillow talk with a new partner comparing scars and discussing where we got them. We share a similar skin problem (eczema) and we were spending 4 days camping so we were commiserating on the struggle. It actually wasn't the first time I've done that with someone. It's never been awkward though, I agree.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

They just come with the territory of growing up and getting old, because accidents happen, illnesses happen, and if you're female, having children often happens.

[(Anonymous)]

This is such a lovely secret and a lovely comment thread afterwards!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, scars aren't the big deal that people make them out to be in fanfiction. Big or small, most people have them.

[(Anonymous)]

I have several thin scars on my stomach. They exist solely because my cat likes to sleep on his back in my lap, and when something startles him and he gets up suddenly, he occasionally manages to hook a claw or two in my shirt. And doesn't let that stop him from kicking away.

Not exactly the most dramatic of stories to share weeping with a confidante.

[red_pill]

i have a bunch of scars on my arm cos i own a cat, and also pick them. there is one, very faded now, on my knuckle from punching a wall (i was very angry, the wall came off worse (it was plaster board)) and ive a long one, i was super proud off, oddley, from when i either fell down a tree or fell on some glass. i cant remember witch. its very fadded now, saddly.