Fuck Yeah Vitiligo

You can look at this so many ways, so I shall look at it a few ways.

Firstly I am yet to decide if it is rude or not, that would entirely depend upon character development and if the artists goes further to develop a more three dimensional character.

I do see it as a limited way to spread awareness of vitiligo, just as it would be if any OC had ‘unique’ feature.

That brings me nicely to my next point to those who write OCs with vitiligo. I am a bit of a budding writer (did a lot of fanfiction a while back) and my mothers only piece of advice was to write what you know. And she was entirely right. 

When you write about something you have no personal experience of you only really scrape the surface (unless its being a wizard or a vampire but that is another point entirely). Those who create OCs with vitiligo and don’t have vitiligo or have no first hand experience of it do not give people with vitiligo a good representation. It’s almost hollow.

How would they know what it feels like to be checking the clock to see when you should reapply your sun cream. How do they know what its like to be forced in the summer months by concerned parents into leggings and t-shirts rather than shorts and a vest top. How do they know what it feels like to feel all the eyes on you wondering what is wrong with that girl/boy. The answer is they don’t, they can guess at what thoughts run through an individuals brain and how it makes them feel but that is not the same. 

Importantly vitiligo is part of the very fabric of an individuals being and each person feels very differently about the skin they are in. So no OC is ever really going to represent 1% of the world population.

When your down, and your world is turned around just always remember someone is going through something so much greater. Lift up your head and carry on soldier, because accomplishing the battle is one step closer to defeating the war. I personally considered on losing my mind trying to end the war but I realize one thing, to defeat the war I have to defeat the battles that lie in front of me. t has taken me sometime to realize how short life really is ,and how easy it is to take for granted, well not anymore I figured out a way to control my emotions and myself morals ,and I’m very proud of it.

                Fingers are always getting pointed at me. People always stare at me only because I am different from what they are used to. At first having vitiligo was a very difficult situation I was answering questions from people I didn’t even know. Things got worst my self-esteem went down, my mind was always overwhelmed with questions to myself like “why did this happen to me?’ and “what does people think about me?” I was mocked, talked about in front and behind my back. Some of my memorable quotes “Look at that leopard walking down the road”, or my favorite “hey look Michael Jackson is not dead” yea degrading words to a person going through a tough time. Life has many of unexplained phenomenal activities that can happen to pretty much anyone. So next time you decide to judge someone remember something can also happen to you most of the time it’s worst.