[LMB] OT: Beauty

[Jelbelser]

My little sister was stunningly beautiful as a young child.  I remember 
that people would stop to look at her when we went somewhere.

She also was brilliant and creative.  When she became an adult that 
extraordinary beauty faded into a more normal "good looking" yet the 
personality qualities remain.

She recently found out that her big eyes - part of that childhood 
beauty - are the result of Stickler's Syndrome, a genetic connective 
tissue disorder.

I find my almost 15 year old son beautiful.  I sometimes wonder how 
much it is because I am his mother, and how much it is because his 
features are well-shaped.  He tends to be more conceited about his 
intellectual abilities rather than his appearance, however, possibly 
because he has always been small (growth hormone deficient now on rHGH 
shots).  He also has a heavy dose of ADHD and alternates between being 
diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and PDD-NOS (an autistic 
spectrum disorder).  So any physical attractiveness he has is good.


Janet in TN


On Jun 1, 2007, at 7:09 PM, A. Marina Fournier wrote:

> My son, too, was just too darn cute for his own good early on--now
> he's handsome--and charming as the day is long. We were starting to
> notice that he was using charm to get himself out of trouble and had
> a talk about it. You know,  you can only get so far on charm, you'd
> best be prepared to rely on good substance and character to get you
> through bad situations, that sort of thing. We used examples of
> people who only got so far on charm before it wore out their welcome
> and the lot--but we applaud him when his manners are charming or he
> does something especially sweet to a stranger when we're out, or a
> guest in our home.
> Marina