[Personal] I need to rant about how insensitive some people can be

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I have a friend who has perfectly clear skin and has never had any skin problems in her life. We were talking about future jobs the other day (we’re med students) and she said she was thinking about doing dermatology, because she’s a perfectionist so she would love getting paid to be picky about how people’s skin looks (her words, not mine). That part I didn’t have a problem with, because that’s literally a dermatologist’s job.However, she then went on to say that she thinks people with acne shouldn’t be allowed to be dermatologists, because they obviously can’t look after their own skin so they wouldn’t be able to look after anyone else’s. She said no one would take a derm with acne seriously. According to her, it’s easy to get rid of acne if you just wash your face every day (keep in mind she has NEVER had acne).I should also point out that this friend is really quite rich and I’m definitely not, which isn’t a problem for me at all, but it does mean that she’s always had access to the best skin products money can buy.At this point I was fuming. She was telling me, someone who’s had acne for over a decade and still does, all of this rubbish about how acne is easy to get rid of if you wash your face twice a day and how people with acne shouldn’t do dermatology. How insensitive can you get? I’ve always been very self conscious of my skin, and finding out my friend’s opinion on acne has made me feel so much worse. I feel like she thinks I’m dirty or lazy, even though I’ve tried what feels like everything I can to help my skin.I don’t really know what I wanted to get out of this rant, but I needed to get it off my shoulders. Thanks for reading if you got this far.
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