Is it normal that i genuinely hate my life and everything i've been given?

It's fucking awful and there's nothing I can do about it. I'm born into a poor Pakistani family in Texas with two short, fat, and poor parents. Sounds mean for me to refer to them as short and fat? How about when my father told me I needed nose surgery at 14 and still does. How about when I was body-shamed basically my entire life for being a skinny toothpick by them and my entire family and forced to eat unhealthy junk food that, now as an 18 year old male, have caused me to become skinny fat and make my process of going to the gym and improving my body much harder. I literally have nothing good about myself and it's incredible how every single odd has managed to work against me. I walk into the bathroom at school and the first thing other guys do is laugh at my appearance and tell me a cat would throw up if it saw me, while I smile and act like it didn't bother me because I'm too short and weak to say anything back. Seriously, I'm a 5'4.5 18 year old who weighs 115 pounds. I don't fucking understand why I was meant to be like this. Yet, being short and being weak could have been corrected by an early age if my parents fed me right and taught me about exercise growing up. Even my doctor told me that bullshit about "he's healthy so it's ok" even though mentally I'm a mess. Top it off with worrying about money and expenses and I can barely afford to get a handful of meals a day let alone think about one day getting the surgery my parents want me to. I'm working my ass off in school to do well and one day get a good job, but there's only so much I can do, I'm not some gifted learner or some shit, my brain is about dead average for a human being, probably. Even if I work hard, get intelligent enough for a job, it's tough for an interviewer to take notes and think about hiring the most unattractive and unsound male he or she has ever seen.

Despite this, I do my best not to show my discontent with life. Like I mentioned about the smiling thing when the kids insult me, I fake smile and laugh everyday at school. I like to spend time with the few people who consider me their friend. I make jokes and try to appear as a funny, comical guy, despite what I've been cursed with. But there's only so much I can do, and what's worse is when I want to do the typical highschool guy shit, like go to prom with a girl or have a girlfriend - I even have a crush on an amazing girl and it's fucking disgusting thinking of what she thinks of me.

I doubt my thoughts are normal, I guess, but how can I deal with it and move forward, but if that's not possible, what else can I do? Suicide has been an option basically my whole life, but I have never been actually depressed or anything because I just got used to these thoughts and feelings. Maybe in that case, you could say I've been depressed my entire life, but I've still been able to enjoy some things or have fun or avoid them. It's just everytime I think about the curses I have or some random person mentions it, like at walmart when someone says "are you lost kiddo?" or a little child runs away from me screaming, I can't help but think how easier it would be to pull a trigger and get away from it.

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Comments ( 10 )
  • lillyquinlan

    You could’ve been born in Pakistan. At least you have the means to eat healthy and go to the gym and turn your life around. You wouldn’t have that back home.

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  • litelander8

    TLDR

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  • Anoverthinker

    I feel sorry for you. I can't understand the pain you would've been going through but I hope you do your best and fight through this <3 "No one's born ugly in this world it's just a judgemental society we live in— Kim Namjoon" and also parents can be tough like really tough idk what to do about that but maybe just ignore them and choose to stay happy. I believe in future there would be no one to poke you. Even me myself, say that I'm ugly and body shame myself but I know that I'm not alone. You're not alone. Please.

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  • Nikclaire

    I don't know but it sounds to me you need to start getting grateful for what you DO have. When we are young we think parents are all knowing, in reality they are just idiots like us, trying to do the best they can. My dad used to called me a worthless whore. Guess what, I left and got over it.

    At some point you have to take responsibility for yourself. You have the ability to change your BMI. You have the ability to work. So you are hideous looking, so what. I've seen all kinds of hideous creatures hooking up with others. Get over yourself and thank the lord for your life. Take responsibility, get grateful and praise God.

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  • KholatKhult

    You speak about your parents giving you shit, that they held you back from bettering yourself, that they’ve given you a harder start on the road to the body you want.
    Fine. You’ve diagnosed a factor in your life that is making things harder for you.
    Now work against it.
    I promise you there are plenty of people willing to hire you no matter what you look like. Be real. With financial independence, things will fall into place.

    You’re healthy and you say your intelligence is average, please do not take this for granted. I worked my ass in to the ground and couldn’t pass my classes because intelligence isn’t on my side. Average is good. Average means there’s nothing wrong.

    Are you being too picky with your women? You say all this horrible things about yourself, have you looked for women who also look this way?

    You say you have it in you to pull the trigger, but you don’t. If you did, you wouldn’t be here. That proves you still have it in you to stay alive. You can scream down the barrel of a gun all you want to, the only thing that will get it to kill you is for you to pull the trigger. I’ve been there, I know.

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    • Nikclaire

      Whoa, let's not goad this dude into pulling the trigger.

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      • KholatKhult

        Where’d you translate that?

        I’m assuring him that he isn’t as lost as he may think. There’s something keeping him here, and if he didn’t have this urge and strength to keep going then he simply wouldn’t.

        I think the best therapy is to break yourself. When I was at my lowest low I went camping for 2 years, did it harm my body greatly and exhaust me of everything? Yes, I lost a finger in that span and struggled more than any other time. Did it teach me I still had the urge to keep myself alive? Absolutely.

        Sometimes you have to prove to yourself that you still want to live.

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  • Clunk42

    You're fine. You've got food. You've got a school that you can go to. Something I find odd about this is the fact that you claim you're fat, but you only weigh 118 lbs. Your doctor's not really wrong. You're healthy, so you're fine. I sincerely doubt you're as unattractive as you believe yourself to be.

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    • Skinny fat is when your weight is low, but your body is mainly composed of fat. Bodies are composed of both fat and muscle and for me my muscle mass is really low while my fat is pretty high. I'm at like 21% fat which can almost be considered fucking obese. I'm not healthy and my doctor was fucking idiotic. And second off even if I was physically healthy I'm not mentally healthy and it's fucking shit having to live like this. In addition, I have every right to believe I'm as unattractive as I declare because I have 0 evidence of me considered as an average/decent looking male from any single human alive. My own father and mother told me I need face surgery. My own father and mother told me I need face surgery. My own father, and, mother, told me that I NEED face surgery.

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      • Clunk42

        Sorry if I misunderstood what skinny fat meant. I question how you aren't mentally healthy, though. I also continue to doubt your claim of being ugly until an image or comparable image has been submitted.

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