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Never give a teenager an irreversible procedure

Ramblings of a detransitioned woman ImWatson (3.88K subscribers)

@painbow6528 | 3 years ago | When I was a teenager I became obsessed with my looks and feeling physically repulsive mostly due to having a big nose. I would have killed to have been offered a nose job. Today, decades later, my nose is probably my best feature. Teenage years are a nightmare and frankly we don't deal with them well as a society. THERE'S our problem. 108 || @ivanascioffi 3 years ago (edited) | Yes! I had the exact same experience and I think about that too when I hear these stories. At 16 I was absolutely convinced that no one would have ever loved me because of my nose and that “fixing it” was the only solution to live a decent life. I thought my mum was a “monster” for saying that she would never have consented to putting me on anesthesia for an unnecessary surgery and that when I had my own money and was an adult I could take responsibility for that if I wanted. Well turns out, at 18, with merely two more years of neurological development under my belt (+ some improvement in my depressive symptoms) I realized how off I was, and how crazy I sounded compared to my mum's perfectly rational response. It gave me actual chills to see how different my thinking was. Never give a teenager an irreversible procedure. Our brains are still developing at that stage it is madness to think we're able to understand and process the significance of altering our bodies for life. This is not to say teenagers can't be extremely intelligent or self-aware - I think I was both those things - but simply that they do not have the mental capacity to handle certain situations properly without outside help. And that is perfectly okay and 100% normal. 13 || @Xyllia 3 years ago | Yesss, me too! I used to hate my nose, hate my forehead, everything about my face lol. Now I love my nose, I realized it's not big at all (I can't even understand how could I have seen it that way). Being a teenager was incredibly hard for me, it fucking sucked. I think transitioning during puberty/teenage years is so dangerous :/

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