Date: July 26th, 2026 7:40 PM
Author: Roblox
hi. i write this through tears because i've been crying for a while and i need to get over myself. but i just can't i just cannot get over myself. i just don't think i'm worth the effort for my boyfriend because of who i am.
i'm indian, i've grown up for ages in countries that weren't india, esp the uk. all these years, i've never felt like. the beauty standard. like sure, alright i look decent i think, but every time i see the beauty standards in the uk i know i can't compare, because i'm not white. which is something i know is so usual and done before or whatever but i just feel like because i'm not white i'm not pretty or worth much.
it's frustrating because i come from india too, where skincare or makeup is demonised by old people, so my mother always calls me a "slut" for wearing makeup.
and now on social media, everyone makes fun of indians/south asians, and it just makes me feel like i'm like some horrible freak of nature just because i'm brown.
i was always bullied for being ugly, even where everyone else was brown. i was just singled out as being some horrible looking individual, because i had really bad acne. there would be this rat bastard of a boy who would say i looked like a witch when i had a pimple on my nose when i was 10. obviously i'm 20 now and stuff has changed, i've grown into my features. but those words said like 10 years ago still sting so bad.
all my previous boyfriends have been indian or when we moved chinese or mixed race, but i've never dated someone white before. but now i (20f) am dating a white guy (19m), and there's like a thing stuck in my throat. what me and him have is new and he always insists on the fact that yeah i'm exactly his type but i knew him before we were together and when he had a crush on another girl and she was white. and i know it's not anything wrong, but i just felt like she was so much prettier than me. like, she was the beauty standard and i'm indian i have different features and i'm hairy and i'm shorter than most people and sometimes i forget the word for something in english. not to mention I have OCD (which he knows about)
and he's always like you're beautiful but i just. feel so bad for him because he's "stuck" with me and i'm just...me.
dinner is dahi puri, it's an indian dish. reuploaded cos the food wasn't there last time!
https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlDinnerDiaries/comments/1v733of/feeling_inadequate_because_im_not_white/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886462&forum_id=2:#50025691)