#vitiligo problems

me watching artists absolutely mess up how vitiligo works when they draw human Sun n Moon (along with so many other characters)

like. vitiligo isn't an accessory. if you want to give a character vitiligo, don't make it out to be some kind of decorative thing?? it's a skin condition, not a cute add-on. it's harmful to our community when artists make it out to be something it absolutely is not.

people at school would point at my arms and giggle, compare me to cows or that I "forgot to rub in my sunscreen again"

I let my whole body become as pale as the vitiligo, never getting sun in the process

it sucked ass, and I wasn't healthy at all because what people would tell me got me to think that it was better to not let my skin just be skin

but being older now and letting myself just. live. is so lovely :)) seeing people like me living their lives so unapologetically has really helped me sm