Ugly Duckling Syndrome
Growing Up Not Conventionally Attractive and How It Alters Who You Are
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9 min readMar 8, 2024
Disclaimer: I am not fishing for compliments. I was genuinely an ugly child, and the only reason I have a semblance of a personality is because I had to rely on that, not my looks, to get me through. I had a realisation lately that the reason my dating life has sucked is because of the insecurities I carry…