I don't know if books or tapes would help all that much for people whose cases are not in the realm of average everyday problems. Sheila, you brought up an...
<<And many times, even when I was in a good mood, someone would say "Smile", and it hurt that they could not tell: * THAT* WAS MY SMILE; that's just the ...
Lori, you elaborated on my point just perfectly with your example. And I'm sure many of us have gone through similar. Even when we are happy-as-a-clam, it ...
Trish<br><br>Practicing your expression, eating etc in front of a mirror is not excessive. It merely articulates the daily strain that clefted people endure....
Wow! What a great observation. My non-smiling face tends to look sad or angry even though I'm neither (most of the time). I've had everyone from my husband and...
Coincidence? The four of us who have had these similar experiences of having our expressions 'misread' by others, also had bilateral clefts. <br><br>(since I...
The same thing has happened to me where people would tell me to smile even though I was, although it looks like a fake smile. I think it has to do with my ...
OK, I'm just going to say what I feel here. When I<br>was growing up, listening <br>to other girls complain, it bothered me to no end to hear them moan about ...
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Debbie,<br><br>I agree with you in a way. However, I'm currently living through the adolescence of my daughter (age 14) who is a very attractive non-cleft...
Being short probably has many overlapping similarties to having a cleft. I'm average height so I am not talking from personal experience. It has been well ...
Borquita, After going to your website, a COMET CURSOR downloaded to my machine. Comet Cursor contains Spyware that's used to report surfing habits and ...
oh! boy! dang girl! I know what you mean! Been there done that!<br><br>I had a friend that was bulimic, and she was pretty and thin, and use to complain about...
well, i wouldn't tell them shut up and get over it! but it hurt's being on this side of the fence, when you know that your problem is worse!! really much...
This thing about trusting judgement...I don't really get it...you know<br><br>some people that do not know me, will not trust my judgement...until they do...I...
For the reasons you wrote your post, I can never bring myself to say to someone else in pain "I understand", when in fact, I may empathise but not really ...
Something happened to me the other day that sort of bothers me. While riding home on the Subway with my husband, I noticed a "fellow clefted man." Now, of...
shelly<br>As I mentioned in an earlier post, different people see different things. We are so accustomed to thinking about the cleft that we see it first. ...
Shelly<br>I very rarely put makeup on. It is so much work putting it on in the morning that I just say the hell with it and don't bother. If people don't like...
My grandson had surgery for his cleft lip on August 11. After 2 weeks the Dr said he could take a bottle. He starts screaming anytime any type of nipple ...
After Brooke had her surgery, we were told that they learn to associate the pain of drinking a bottle after their surgery with the actual bottle itself. Was he...
Thank you for the message.But Luke was born at 2:16 today.And we went home to get some rest.But I talked to my daughter and she said that he was sucking the...
I'm confused, are you related to whoever posted the original message?? If so, how come they said that he had surgery on his lip on august 11?? Just asking,...
Hi All,<br> I saw an interesting show on the learning channel last nite. It was about extremely tall people. What I found so interesting is that although all ...
If a really short or tall person could change places with us, do you think he/she would?<br>In other words, how many people would give up their physical ...
Just to let all of you know there will be a program called "The operation cleft palate reconstruction" on the discovery health channel on Sept 7th at 2:00 am...
Here is an Non=profit organization tht my sister, who is in the Speech Thearpy field ( due to me). Kerri told me of theis site to look at and I would like to...
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