Showing posts with label body image. Show all posts
Showing posts with label body image. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Coming To Love and The Little To Dos

Story Time.
I have had a problem with my smile since I was in highschool. 
It had never occurred to me before then that there was anything weird or off about my smile/teeth. 
But unfortunately, highschool brings out a lot of insecurites about flaws in young people that they otherwise may have never seen in themselves or worried about.

I have sucked my thumb for as long as I can remember, and it has pushed my bottom front teeth slightly inwards. I also have slightly longer canines. This has the effect of a gap appearing between my front top teeth and my front bottom teeth.
I went maybe 10 years only smiling with my mouth closed. 
I was terribly insecure about that gap. 
I thought it made me look at a troll. 

But I've noticed something in the past couple of months, my smile has changed. 
My teeth still have the gap, but the way I smile doesn't show it as much and I can actually smile with my teeth showing without cringing at the results. 
This wasn't an intentional or conscious change or altering on my part. 
But lately, I have felt much more confident in my smile and snapping pictures of it, without my lips being clammed up. 
 

 So, there's a little smile story for ya! 
Do you have any physical features that used to bother you that you have come to love or at least accept?

I am still swamped with little time. 
I am shuffling slowly to get little things done. 
Writing a blog here, clearing clutter there. 
Starting a homemade Christmas gift here, purchasing a few online there. 
It's just little tidbits for now. 
Hoping to have time and energy for the big projects soon.