Good morning, I tell you when I was little I suffered from low self-esteem my classmates called me Ugly Betty, I don't know if you ever saw that Colombian soap opera about a secretary who wore glasses, had her hair done like an old lady and had brearkes.
Buenos días, les cuento cuando yo estaba pequeña sufría de baja auto-estima mis compañeros de clases me llamaban Betty la fea, no se si llegaron a ver alguna vez esa novela colombiana que trataba de una secretaria que usada anteojos, se peinaba como señora mayor y tenia brearkes.
My classmates used to call me that because I used to wear glasses, I had very unruly hair, I would say I was short, well I still am hehe I didn't grow much.
Mis compañeros me decían así ya que yo usaba anteojos, era de cabello rebelde super rebelde diría yo, era bajita bueno lo sigo siendo jeje no crecí mucho.
I was born with strabismus a condition of the eyes out of orbit so to call it, since I was little I had to wear glasses I was in control of the view with a very specialized doctor, as a birthday gift number 7 gave me my visual operation so that my eyes could be normal, I mean for my eyes to line up normally. From there I began a series of exercises to clearly recover my sight, but in the end I could not recover 100% visualization since my left eye did not recover completely, since I can not see well in that eye, I only see colors.
I can't distinguish letters or see things from far away. But thanks to God my other eye is completely recovered.
Yo nací con estrabismo una condición de los ojos fuera de orbita para así llamarlo, desde pequeña tuve que usar anteojos estuve en control de la vista con una doctora muy especializada, de regalo de cumpleaños numero 7 me regalo mi operación visual para que mis ojos pudieran ser normal, quiero decir para que mis ojos se linearan normalmente. De allí comencé una serie de ejercicios para poder recuperar claramente la vista, pero no a la final no pude recuperar la visualización al 100% ya q mi ojo izquierdo no se recupero por completo, ya que ese ojo no puedo ver bien, solo veo colores.
No distingo letras ni, ver las cosas de lejos. Pero gracias a dios de mi otro ojo si quedo totalmente recuperado..
I thank all my family who supported me, my mother, grandmother, aunt helped me a lot to get out of this problem since I was a child.
Le doy gracias a toda mi familia que me apoyo, mi madre, abuela, tía me ayudaron mucho para yo salir de ese problema desde pequeña.
I think that if it had not been like that, I would still suffer from that condition, and even more in this country situation in which we find ourselves, I would not have been able to have my eyesight operated on...
yo pienso que si no hubiese sido así, yo todavía sufriera de esa condición, y mas en esta situación pais en la que nos encontramos no hubiese podido operarme mi vista...
Returning to the subject of my self-esteem, I decided not to pay more attention to the bad comments that were made to me about my ugliness, it was so much what they said that I was more than sure that I was.
When my classmates saw that I was not paying attention to them, they got tired of giving me bad treatment and I began to live my childhood and adolescence.
Volviendo al tema de mi auto-estima, decidí no prestar mas atención a los malos comentarios que me hacían referente a mi fealdad, era tanto lo que lo decían que ya lo tenia mas que seguro de q lo era.
Mis compañeros al ver que ya no les prestaba atención se cansaron de darme malos tratos y ya comencé a vivir mi niñez y adolescencia.
I learned to love and value myself regardless of what others say and think, I am me first, me second and then the opinion of others.
Aprendí a quererme y valorarme ami misma sin importar lo que digan y piensen los demás, primero estoy yo, segundo yo y luego la opinión de los demás.