I have a scar across my chest. When I was 19, I was misdiagnosed as having lung cancer, and while I was unconscious during surgery my surgeon made a "judgement call" where in he removed 3 of my ribs from underneath my left-side pectoral muscles. At the time, I had just finished my freshman year at Karen White's modeling house, and the scar across the left side of my torso ended my short-lived career. I was WAY bitter about that for a while.
Dealing? Wel, for a couple of years, I was very body conscious. I wore big, bulky cloths and stopped going swimming all together. Eventually, I learned to accept my body the way it is rather than how I thought it should be.
Perhaps because I have learned to accept it, most people do not notice it initially. HOWEVER, I can point out specific occasions where it became an issue. For example, I dated a guy for about 9 months. I thought we had a really good relationship, too. One morning we were laying in bed with his head on my chest and he said, "What's that?". I was like, "Its my scar. Are you only now noticing it?". He said, "Yeah, I guess I never noticed before.".
The next day, he sent me a text message that said he couldn't see me anymore because my scar "grossed-him-out"....
~Beaux