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Posted by Delroy Anton McDonald on September 11, 2015 at 5:31am in Main

Hi I'm 24 years old and I've had vitiligo since I was 10 I have never had support of anyone but I've always found it hard to cope day in day out with the looks the stares my whole body is affected I was black inside my heart and head it has broke me down sometimes I can't leave my house and I get frustrated due to nobody will ever understand the mental effect it has had on my let alone being visually different I even felt like a outsider growing up with 6 siblings  I just fort Its about time I tried to talk to someone who can relate to me 

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  • Delroy Anton McDonald November 7, 2015 at 12:37am
    Thanks for the comments resha and tom I really appreciate it its just hard in a society which judges by appearance alot
    • Delroy Anton McDonald > Delroy Anton McDonald November 7, 2015 at 1:47am
      Well when I was younger I was like a bit to occupied by what was going on around me to notice how and I remember my first experience with what you have just said it did make me feel like a outsider from then I was in my first year of high school
      • Tom M > Delroy Anton McDonald November 7, 2015 at 2:07am

        That's a difficult time in life to have such challenges, in an already difficult world that is emerging in our teenage years.

    • Tom M > Delroy Anton McDonald November 7, 2015 at 1:31am

      I know what you mean, brother.  I'm an IT tech and people watch my hands as I repair their equipment. I've extended a handshake only to have the person withdraw and provide an elbow.

      I do not begrudge anyone not shaking my hand.  Handshaking is overrated, and fist-bumps are becoming more popular by germophobes.  Elbows, well, that was a new one for me.  As I progress with this disease, I fully expect a fully shoed foot to replace the elbow.

      Cheers!

  • Tom M November 7, 2015 at 12:10am

    When you're with us, Delroy, they are different.

    When I feel estranged from others without this condition, I try to remember that those who are visually impaired or are totally blind to not be able to see our Vitiligo and our forum, are different still.  I reflect on them and I try to imagine describing the color of snow, which they may have never seen.  It is the color of milk, or chalk, which again they have not seen.  So how would I describe my Vitiligo to them?  Perhaps they are part of a small segment who will not know the emotional pain of this affliction.  In those moments I remind myself it is better to have this Vitiligo and to see what it is doing to my body, than to not be able to see the majesty of a sunrise, a sunset, a mountain landscape, the beauty of a loved one, a painting of our Lord.

    Welcome, Delroy.  It's good to see you among us.

    Tom

  • Qianqian September 13, 2015 at 3:06pm

    hello, you can talk and get friends here,

  • sara afreen September 12, 2015 at 7:07am
    Hi
  • Robot September 11, 2015 at 3:40pm

    Welcome.  You are in the right place now.

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