I was born with a common skin condition called Eczema. It makes the skin extremely reactive to any type of internal or external changes and comes out as very itchy patches on your body that you can’t stop scratching till your skin opens up and blood’s under your fingernails.
Anyone with such a condition knows the tricks of going to sleep with gloves on your hands, keeping your nails nice and short at all times, staying away from minty chewing-gum and stacking your bag with the most chemical creams on the planet. Let’s just say that floating around in the salty dead sea was more like diving into an acid bath.
Nobody really knows this about me, but my eczema can be very brutal, to the extent where my whole face is covered with swollen, flaky and red patches so bad I can’t leave the house, and I’m not someone to hide at home because of a pimple.
My close friends know about this and make it so much better. They know to tap my hand off when I’m unconsciously scratching away, and to ask me after what’s wrong, because they know I scratch when I’m stressed or upset. I cant hide anything from them.
My skin is extremely reactive in general. I blush very easily, I blush when I accidentally make eye contact with a stranger in the street, so no- if I’ve blushed while looking at you in the street it does not mean i’m into you, I just can’t control it! I blush sometimes only from thinking about an embarrassing situation (a real one or even one I made up), I blush when I feel pretty, when I feel sad, when I’m excited… But the craziest thing is not the amount of times I blush a day, but the speed I manage to switch from a chilled white chick to a complete tomato. The snap of a finger and the blink of an eye. And once again, I can’t hide anything. Sometimes I feel like I’m one of those squishy balls the once you squeeze them the eyes pop out, but for me it’s the red face.
Just like my skin, I’m a very reactive person in my personality. Even if I don’t show it, like every normal human, everything affects me. If I think I heard my name I’ll jump and scream back till this person finds me and gets the answer he needs. I don’t like keeping people guessing but I love being kept guessing, just because a little flirt never killed anybody and it keeps me on my feet.