How can we deal with rejection like this

We have to ignore what some people may say or how some people may look at us and go on with life. We are all worthwhile.

I've had that a lot in my life time. I was born with crossed eyes and it took surgery to uncross them. In school I would get teased about it and I would go home in tears. Finally, at age 6, I learned to wade in and punch the daylights out of the person making the comments. Everyone soon learned NOT to discriminate about my disabilities and deformities. It soon reached the point of my being teased and having nasty comments because I couldn't react properly on the game fields or in gym. It seemed like I would be the butt of people's rude comments, "jokes" and other forms of rejection and discrimination. I got really angry one day after going through a series of the extremely nasty and ugly "jokes" about my disability. It was in my gym class and that is when I gathered myself together and chewed the people out. They all stood there stupidly looking at me and finally one of them admitted "We didn't know". I finished my chewing them out with "instead of making horrible remarks, talk to the person and find out the "why" to their problem and see if there is a way you can help." Then I stalked out of gym class (the class was only about half over), showered, got dressed and stormed out. To this day I don't stand for ANYONE making horrible remarks or showing rejection or discrimination towards someone with a disability. We're lucky in the area I live in as the people are all pretty closely intwined and are friends for years, so they aren't as apt to discriminate or reject a disabled person. As for myself, being disabled myself, I am more apt to befriend and to help a disabled person than turn my back and I try to teach others to do the same.

Be yourself and try to repair the damage or camouflage it and to lessen it's visibility!!!

If you look at it, everyone is born with some sort of imperfection. It is the people who are too wrapped up in themselves and trying to prove that they are "perfect" that reject, discriminate or take joy in pointing out other's imperfections. My way of working at living above this discrimination was to be involved in my art to the point that what others thought didn't matter. It takes some work on the person's part, but eventually we do rise above those who discriminate against those who aren't perfect. By discriminating, the people show actually how deeply imperfect they truly are.