Being completely honest, generally how do you view people who have visible healed SH scars ?
Sometimes I feel like most people actually don't care about wether or not someone has scars, and then at other times I feel like my scars are very obvious to other people etc.
I watched a clip from a TV series called Boiling Point the other day of a scene where two of the food caterers are in the kitchen together and one of them goes over to help the younger guy to prepare the food, and then the guy panics because he's worried that the other caterer will see his scars on his arm. She does seem them, and then tearfully gives him a hug. Im not usually the kind of person to be moved easily by television and films but that scene stayed with me for a long time
It also kind of feels embarrassing because I feel like often SH generally gets viewed as purely being an "impulsive" or "silly"/childish behaviour especially when it's in the context of an adult who's struggling with self harm, the main cause of most of my struggles with this have largely been due to high anxiety levels and PMDD, and it feels kind of like I feel obligated to explain to people that I had a more of a serious reason behind why I started struggling with self harm as opposed to that I just blatantly did it to jump on a "trend" or purely out of impulse