They will never understand

Some people will never understand the experience and feeling of wearing braces..

They will never understand how the braces keep hurting the sides of your mouth, causing ulcers.

They will never understand how sometimes the side of your mouth, actually, and seriously, gets hooked to stupid idiotic little hooks on certain brackets. Causing big movements of your mouth to be painfully restricted unless you physically pull your cheeks away from your braces...

They will never understand how eating certain veges can actually make you choke! As the fibres sometimes get stuck around your brackets - causing half the vege down your throat to fight with the other half vege stuck around your braces. HORRIFIC!!!

Being unable to properly chew/bite some noodles have the same effect. How pathetic.

If you see me choking over the dinner table and tears start coming out of my eyes, you now know why..

They will never understand how some adjustments are more painful than usual,

Hence not being able to eat anything harder than mashed potatoes. From a few days, till more than a week. Because the pain and sensitivity is there for that long..

You end up being constantly hungry the whole day, even if you eat something (yoghurt, mashed potatoes, etc) every 2-3 hours.

It's a gentle reminder why I NEVER go on a diet. It's too torturing.

And you have to constantly remind yourself not to clench/grind your teeth, esp. when you're doing it subconsciously during stressed moments, because that small little pressure might make you yelp silently in pain.

For the whole day after your adjustment, you've indirectly become this extremely quiet (if not already) person around. Speaking very little. Opening your mouth very little.

There is also the occasional tendency to drool when you're asleep as you try to keep your top and bottom sets of teeth apart.. *lol*

Some say it's all about getting used to it. If you havent experienced the same before, you better keep those words to yourself. I dont want to start arguing with you. And sometimes I just wanna cry..

I want to eat. I dont care about braces anymore. I dont care if they say "No pain, no gain". I dont want to gain anymore!!

And these people that you share your feelings with, they try their best to make you feel better with comforting words, but they will never NEVER understand what you're actually feeling.

Because they have not experienced it before. Because they feel by you telling them, they're supposed to say something nice to make you feel better. Guess what? Those comforting words dont make me feel any better. At all!!!