Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate

[MsBabbi]

I'm born with complete cleft lip and full palate. Yeah, I may look funny to some, and I live in Oslo, so I'm pretty sick of people staring at me and pointing. And people calling it Harelip. I hate that word. Cleft lip is much nicer and describes the condition better than caling us hares :P And I just wonder: Children are rarely taught anything about cleft lip. Most people don't know anything about it, unless they now someone who was born with it. Why won't they teach them?

[Starlightron]

people shouldn't make fun of other people. The way some people are treating others is not right. This coming from some one whose only birth defect is "insanity". I am always told I'm sooooooooooooooooo annoying

[emyban]

I hate how they make it seem like a big issue. In the end you end up with a scar and funny looking nose(and possible hearing and speech problems) but most importantly you become stronger than everyone else because you learn how to adapt.

[SmileMissions]

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[racookster]

At 5:00, when she said, "The first step in ESSR is to enlarge the nipple by cutting a cross in the nipple," I was like, "SAY WHAT!?"

It took me a second or two to realize she was talking about rubber baby bottle nipples. LOL! I thought, Great, the kid has a birth defect, and now you're proposing disfiguring Mom, too?!

XD

[TuRdSandwitch18]

BULLSHIT they make out like after the operation wen u're like 2 it's over! wrooooong try lifetime of misery, i shud know since i've lived it, PLUS they dont wanna do any futher work bcos apparently 2 scars an an asymetrical nose is a shallow cosmetic procedure, buuuullshiiiiiiit

[deexen]

@TuRdSandwitch18 My surgeon told me the same thing. He's not doing anymore surgery on me. He flat out asked me " who are you trying to impress" when I asked if he could do something with my nose and scars. MOTHERFUCKER

[Hollywood459137619]

ive got a cleft lip

it was repaired when i was only one but i still have a embarising scar.

ive never realy been bullied over it

[fpguim4]

it depends where you live and study, and the way you do it

i was born w/ unilateral clef lip on left side, and although my scar is rly rly discreet, i used to be teased at school over it...

but ppl teased me coz i was rly nerd, rude, ingenuous and depressive, and they found something to make me feel sad, make me feel like an aberration...

the solution i found was staying away from all those "friends", and now i know that i was only a teenager with personal problems, nothing related to my body

[veranaika]

@fpguim4 not really. i'm already in college. it would be my last year in college taking up interior design to tell you the truth i never been discourage about my defect even now. it was like the other way around. i bullied them or tease them, if one of my classmate tease me, my friends would always stand behind me, even less. i always stand on my own feet. i was like... and so what? atleast i'm pretty.

[fpguim4]

@veranaika As I said I was a completely jerk during school and ppl found in my lip an aspect (a lil aspect) to put me down, and that wasn't the only aspect. U know how teenagers get confused about themselves sometimes (always). My life changed a lot by changing my atittudes about life. Nowadays I can't recognize the old "me" (and I'm not talkin' about my lip, sometimes I completely forget that I was born with this fissure xD) and I live a completely normal and encouraged life on College either.

[bfavreforprez]

been called but lip and shotgun face.

[TjoHooXD]

I've got lip jaw and cleftpalate..

But I'm european o.O

[skullandbonestd]

same her do u get made fun of for the way ur lip is people call me fucked up lip and all that u no?

[TjoHooXD]

Yup :/ it's not so funny :(

I remember.. there was a guy who said, "it looks like someone set fire on your face and tried to get away the fire with a hatchet" ;___;