Rude things people have said to you

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#61 Post by **Skates** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:45 am

Recently while picking up a prescription, I got into a conversation with a tech who asked me what possesed me to get braces. I told him it was TMJ and my second go round with braces (If I could find my original ortho, I would love to have a LONG conversation with the incompetent hack) etc.

He told me that they were the new status symbol for people our age and I looked great in them. He also asked who my ortho was and what I recommended etc.

The funny part was when he started hinting at our ages. Remember, he said at "our age". He's 23.....I'm 40.

I could have kissed him.

#62 Post by **freerideuk** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:50 am

i haven't had too many rude comments at all about braces at all

i have had alot of nice comments like "theres always something cute about a girl in braces "

and "some people look goofy with braces but you really suit yours "

but last weekened i was out at a club and one very very rude girl decided my braces were the best way to pick on me it was very crowded and she shouted excuse me right at me and i my group of friends when we didn't move (cause we couldn't)she stared having a go at us at this point i turned round and went if you need to go to the toilet go but don't be rude.

and she started making fun of my braces and the slight lisp i have at this point her friend shoved her in the toilet and i very nicey shouted to her least i am doing something to help my self unlike you.(she was slightly overweight .....when i say slightly she was huge)

but really thats only the one bad experience i have everyone has just been intrested and curious

xxx

#63 Post by **Zuke** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:49 am

I had someone tell me:

"You know, when you are 28, no one cares what you look like, that is for the younger gals"......

NICE.....very very nice....as if because I am 28 and married I am just a lost cause!?!!

Z

#64 Post by **dagwoman** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:05 am

I think the rudest thing anyone has ever said to me regarding braces (and it's not even really rude, more just stupid) is "ooohhhh, you still have braces!" as soon as I walked up to greet them. Considering I'd only had braces for just over 5 months, it shouldn't be surprising that I've still got them on!

#65 Post by **Karan's Mum** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:29 am

BEfore braces : I was talking with some of my classmates and one of them said "Did you lose one of your tooth?"

(he was referring to one of my incisors that grows inward)

I was so embarassed because suddenly everyone was looking at me and they wanted me to show them how my teeth look like.

I always got red and all when someone noticed my teeth and then asked me to showed them how it looked like. It took sometime before I could show my husband my real teeth.

Anyway I have braces now and I'm less self conscious. Weirdly, many people gave comments such as "I didn't know you have bad teeth" and I told them because I never smiled with my teeth and I always tried to hide them.

I'm doing a placement now in a highschool and everytime I enter a class, half of them have braces, lol. I don't know what they think of me.. LOL but I don't care.

#66 Post by **algebraland** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:36 am

yeah, for me, one of our neighbors was like, "so when you getting them braces off?". it may not sound RUDE persay, but the way people sort of say these things as if they feel sorry for you, well I can't really describe it. It's like they ask something just cuz they know you're sensitive about it, but they do anyway just cuz they like to, you know? Well, ha, in less than 3 months, I will be the one laughing all the way home in my clearpink bunny sticker retainer.

#67 Post by **Mmmmuuaa** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:48 am

I had my first kinda rude comment yesterday. I told my husbands friend that in 3 days I get my braces off and his comment was how much clearer I talk then! I said 'what do I slur or something' and he right away said no, but it was too late, I knew at that point he thought I didn't talk clear. The thing is my speech hasn't been changed at all. I was shocked that he said that.

#68 Post by **shaolin** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:26 pm

After 2 months I've had no unpleasant comments at all. As a teacher a lot of my kids have braces and a lot of them have asked to see them (word gets round and they are curious) so I give them a cheesy grin. In fact I've shown more people my teeth in the last 2 months than I probably have in the rest of my life up to now!

I've only actually told a few people directly and they have been universally positive and understanding (one even said they make me look very "professional"!).

I'm sure I'll get some comment eventually, but my braces are transparent and I have thin wires, so they aren't so easy to see, in fact the only person who actually said "have you got braces?" is a girl who had similar ones herself and so is particularly likely to notice I guess. She now has to have orthognastic surgery and we've have some long talks about it (while watching youtube videos) - I've heard comments from kids that having braces make me "cool" - at 45 I never thought I'd get there!

#69 Post by **Arvensis** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:21 am

I expected a lot of flack, especially from my non-too-kind stepsisters... they certainly made comments the FIRST time around with braces ten years ago. But surprisingly nothing has been said. I guess we should hold our breath on family reactions though until it's determined if my Russian brother-in-law is coming into town in April or not (or before I get the braces off) - I can just IMAGINE the sesame that would be, since they don't even know I had braces or jaw surgery;)

Mostly I've gotten carded a ridiculous number of times since getting braces.... which isn't per se rude, but is rather ironic considering I'm 26 and was rarely if ever carded before this process began... And it was def. the braces.. I'd walk into Spec's and keep lips closed, be past the bouncer guy, then would get carded at checkout after I said hi.

Of course, since I had jaw surgery two months ago, the carding has increased ten fold because apparently I look all of 16 now. I went to an R-rated flick and got carded... that didn't even happen to me when I WAS a minor. I'm sure I'll appreciate this much more ten years from now.

#70 Post by **Clairey Fairey** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:16 am

I got a lot more ruder comments before I had braces....sort your teeth out...blah blah blah.

I don't think anyones said any thing rude since braces, thankfully coz I'm the type that would take it to heart!!

#71 Post by **iBorg** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:51 pm

Teaching college with some difficult students, I expected to be hassled. Rarely has anything been said. I did have one moment when a girl told me that she had to miss class one day to get her archwire clipped and I started laughing hard. This was a Monday afternoon. She looked at me, first offended, then looked again and starting laughing as hard at my shiny teeth. She asked me "When?" I said "Last Thursday."

The other weird moment I had was at a Cub Scout outing when I overheard a woman, who was braced say, "See I told you I wasn't the oldest person to get braces." I could tell she was reacting out of frustration due to her interaction with this other woman. I saw great humor in her comments rather than be insulted. We talked for about an hour that night. She has become a friend.

Mike

#72 Post by **Crymsyn** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:30 pm

It's my first day back at work since being braced. I work for a design college here in FL so I'm in contact with students and staff all the time.

Today, someone I've known for more than a year saw my new braces and said, "I didn't realize your teeth were that crooked!".

I have ceramics and they don't stand out unless I deliberately show them to someone. I think this co-worker was referring to the \/\/\/\ direction of the archwire that I've got going on to connect all the brackets- in part due to some crooked teeth but mostly due to my odd bite.

#73 Post by **red indian** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:24 pm

Well, once I had gone to pick my up daughter from middle school and just as we were driving out, our car was surrounded by three boys who started pointing to me and saying "See! I told you!" and began laughing. I think thats about the only time I've felt really strange about wearing braces.

#74 Post by **MsVarlene** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:49 pm

With loops on my upper archwire, an aquaintance saw me smile and said "That's some serious hardware in your mouth".

Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:39 pm

I really thought I'd have more negative comments about my braces....but really nothing so far. The worst yet has been when a buddy asked what I could and could not eat, so I replied with "anything hard or crunchy...like potato chips." and he started laughing and asked me to repeat the word "chips", so I did, and he thought it was hilarious that I lisped the word. Although....I still deny I have a lisp! But I am more self conscious now when I talk.

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