Quote Originally Posted by 7sisters View Post
It is a cliche, but I think it's very true: you have to love yourself before you can love another.
But I love myself all the time! Every day if possible.

Owait... that's not what you meant. I actually am pretty fond of myself, though. (At least on the inside.) There are some things I would change, but, y'know, I've got to live with myself so I may as well like it. (To say nothing of learning to like the walk-ins... yeah, we'd be screwed if we couldn't get along.)

Unfortunately, there's no easy way to just love yourself out of body dysphoria. You can tuck and bind those parts away, and suspend your awareness as much as possible, but that's really just shutting out the problem, not getting rid of it. And it definitely makes it harder to love others with the same kind of body parts that you hate.

Well, except for pinky fingers. I'm not always fond of mine, but I certainly like those on other people.