This is shit. I see myself 24 h a day, tired, ugly unshaven, teeth unbrushed in the morning, hairs in weird places, of course I think I'm ugly, even when I take care of all that... it's an overall feeling. But all the other people think I'm drop dead gorgeous. Girls literaly tremble when they talk to me, and I'm like, wtf, do you see my weird hairs.....
There was a study done at one point, and they compared people's own 1-10 ratings of themselves to other peoples 1-10 ratings of their pictures. No, you likely don't think you're "five times" as attractive as you are, but most people do, on average, think they're 1 or 1.5 points higher on the scale than they are. Bonus, though: if you suffer from chronic depression, you probably know *exactly* how attractive you are to other people, because the personal investment that makes people see themselves as more attractive is less likely to affect you.
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