Too afraid to show my hands — overcoming the fear of letting others see our designs
<p>Ican still recall the day in 1991, the room, and her name. My classmate Dana looked at my hands during an activity in elementary school and gasped, <em>“Eww, your hands are gross! Why are they so ugly?”</em> I promptly pulled them away from the table and hid them in my pocket. <em>“My hands are gross?”</em>, I thought. <em>“What’s wrong with my hands?”</em></p>
<p>My young, confused mind raced all day.</p>
<p>Until then, I’d lived 11 years without ever noticing, caring about, or thinking there was something wrong with my hands. But this comment changed all of that. When I got home, I slowly took my hands out of my pockets and drummed up the courage to look at them. I flipped them over. Examined them. They were in fact dry, and flaky. They had freckles and an oddly placed mole on my left hand. They looked old, cracked, and worn. I couldn’t see the pores in my hands like all the other kids’ hands.</p>
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