In\u00a0every photo of\u00a0me\u00a0until\u00a0I was\u00a06, my\u00a0face is\u00a0covered in\u00a0scratches. My\u00a0parents always said it\u00a0was because printers were low quality back then. Today, I\u00a0was visiting my\u00a0aunt and found a\u00a0photo album of\u00a0a\u00a0family gathering from 1992. I\u00a0was horrified when\u00a0I discovered one of\u00a0the photos.<\/p>\n
I\u00a0saw \u201cmyself\u201d and froze\u2026 I\u00a0was completely covered in\u00a0red patches. My\u00a0face was so\u00a0covered that\u00a0I couldn\u2019t believe it\u00a0was actually\u00a0me. It\u00a0didn\u2019t look like a\u00a0printing error. It\u00a0looked real.<\/p>\n
Confused and shaken, I\u00a0asked my\u00a0aunt about\u00a0it. She told me\u00a0I was born with a\u00a0rare and severe skin condition\u2014rashes and pimples covered my\u00a0face and body. I\u00a0had undergone years of\u00a0treatment, and thanks to\u00a0the doctors, my\u00a0skin eventually healed.<\/p>\n
My parents never told me. They thought the truth would be too much for me to handle as a child, so\u00a0my\u00a0dad edited the photos, hiding my\u00a0face in\u00a0every one. The photos were shocking\u2026 but more than anything, I\u00a0wish they had trusted me\u00a0enough to\u00a0tell me\u00a0the truth themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In\u00a0every photo of\u00a0me\u00a0until\u00a0I was\u00a06, my\u00a0face is\u00a0covered in\u00a0scratches. My\u00a0parents always said it\u00a0was because printers were low quality back then. Today, I\u00a0was visiting my\u00a0aunt and found a\u00a0photo album of\u00a0a\u00a0family gathering from 1992. I\u00a0was horrified when\u00a0I discovered one of\u00a0the photos. I\u00a0saw \u201cmyself\u201d and froze\u2026 I\u00a0was completely covered in\u00a0red patches. My\u00a0face was so\u00a0covered that\u00a0I couldn\u2019t believe it\u00a0was actually\u00a0me. It\u00a0didn\u2019t …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}