How did you lose the genetic lottery?

I'm a ginger and I hate it. Not the cute kind. The stereotypical kind with ghostly pale skin and a face so freckly that it makes me look ugly under 90% of lighting conditions. I wish my freckles were the cute kind like in hollywood but for me they're everywhere - nose, cheeks, sides of face, forehead. Even a big one on my eyelid.

And of course I get all the other shit that comes with being ginger. Instead of tanning, I roast like a lobster. It takes me over an hour with shot after shot of anesthetic at the dentists' office to numb me enough to get to work and even then I can still feel it.

I wish I could be one of those people who accepts myself and all that, but if I could trade and be boring and average looking I'd choose it in a heartbeat.

/r/AskReddit Thread