HOT PEOPKE OF REDDIT: When/how did you know you were attractive? How has this affected you? Also, if you have ugly duckling syndrome I really wanna know what you have to say. I want some perspective, I’ll put my story below in the comments too.

Question admin story: Personally I have ugly duckling syndrome, I was a beautiful kid from like infancy-6 years old and then bullied relentlessly from that age onward to 8th grade so I always thought I was ugly and worthless. I went through a big puberty in highschool around sophomore year, gained like 6-8 inches and put on 40 pounds of muscle but was still very shy. The girls and even teachers started noticing me, being very blunt with their attraction, people I never thought would notice me were being very forward that they wanted to sleep with me, this was all very very confusing and I honestly didn’t pay much mind. I worked at a restaurant from age 19-20 and I was sexually harassed very much, from the workers and customers, just the most lewd stuff you can think of, for some reason still didn’t click in my head, I just figured everyone goes through this. It took my now best friend to help me know, we were talking about attraction and all that and I started voicing my insecurities and he couldn’t believe his ears, he thought I was crazy to even feel these insecurities, he said people constantly give me special treatment and even turn their heads when I walk by, and he was baffled that I didn’t notice any of this, I still don’t really notice it but I get free stuff at places a lot more than I realized, or people just let me do things. Its kinda strange to see people act this way honestly, they just stare at me with a kind of wide eyed blank gaze and I even see them trip up on their words. Its nuts because I’m still that awkward, short, weird kid in my head. People constantly tell me I don’t act the way I look. And even after all this and my friends telling me what they think its still not really sunk in, my friend told me recently that he looks to see how people will react to how handsome I am when they first meet me. Honestly none of this really changes how I feel, I mean I don’t feel ugly any more but I don’t feel that good looking either, I just have a normal level of confidence. If anything my thing is now that I know I am attractive but just how attractive I wonder, where I rank ya know. So thats my story, I’m 22 now, just curious about other people’s story and all. Hope this wasn’t vain in any way I just wanted to be as clear and honest as possible.

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