u/Glad-Astronaut-9664

I spent so long hiding myself even with visible scars including on my face but in fact i realized after therapy that I was just hiding it from me. People always can notice. What doesn’t mean they care.

I like that quote ‘when we hide something in fact, we are just hiding that from ourselves, not from others’.

I started to show myself more and I noticed no one even cared. When I was spending years without showing my legs at the gym but then I started going with shorts and even very short ones because it’s so warm all the time. People don’t even noticed. They didn’t start looking more or less. It’s always so strange to me

I wouldn’t say i have a contracture on my hand BUT i feel it limits my movement sometimes but just a specific movement. I do feel different while moving to another sides etc but not pain. Its in the part where the fingers start, where we use clocks etc. I’m burned since i was a kid, I’m afraid it can atrophy when i get old does it happen? Can someone who has been burned for a long time then got older tell me? I’m in my 20s but I overthink about it

I live in a very affluent region of the US, and here, a number of au pairs continue living with their HF after their program ends. For an exceptional au pair, someone who treats your children with great love and affection, and who truly makes an effort to spend quality time with your whole family, would you consider sponsoring her tourist or student visa if she expressed a desire to stay on after the program, and if doing so meant you wouldn't incur any costs (since she would move to another state to attend a community college)? I would consider living with my HF too but i dont want to ask them to do anything under the table for me tbh.

Are any of you guys running any marathon this year? Any that you know? I need some inspirations and i love to cheer up my own community!

I’m not running much yet, just gym stuff but I’m planning to develop my skills and maybe in 1/2 years try one marathon! But i would love to see burn survivors doing it