This Troper's skin is always covered with little, temporary scars, but she has three that are Forever - first on her thigh, shaped like a star, which she made at the age of 11 with her own nail. She has no idea why would she do that. Second is on the left palm, near the thumb, where she was curious about how deep a little, clearly visible vein was. It was deeper than she expected, but she still decided to go on cutting until she reached it. The third scar is on her chin, from a childhood accident, when she stabbed herself with a dull, plastic knife from a toy kitchen set. She knows it from her parents, for she was too young too remember and still has some difficulties believing it.

This troper has her share of odd scars, most notably a splotchy one on her knee and a crisscross thing on her hand, (from a cat) but is fascinated by a scar belonging to her father. It's on the back of his head, and hair won't grow there; he got it from a bit of metal when he was really young, but it's still very visible.

This troper accidentally scraped a diagonally line in her forehead when she was six (she fell and her glasses pushed so hard that the metal of the nose piece broke the skin on her forehead). She's never been teased about it cause it's rather hard to see, but one friend did take a picture of my forehead and sent it to her Harry Potter loving friend. I should have learned my lesson, the only reason I still have this thing after 8 years is because I was always picking the scab too soon. I still pick my scabs, probably the reason this other scar from a cat scratch never went away. The lesson to be learned? Don't pick scabs before they heal.

I have a number of scars on my body that I've kept since childhood ranging from a long ropey one on my thumb from a ceramic lampshade suddenly breaking from the ceiling and slashing open my thumb to a long line where my sister decided to open up the side of my arm with her fingernails in a fit of pique to more picayune ones like the various mosquito bite scars. Some of it's because I tended to pick a lot at wounds as a kid (well, and the thumb one was sewn up by our family doctor who later admitted he had no experience with how to put in stitches) and some of it's because the scars really mean something to me, about where I've been and where I've come from.

I have numerous scars (mostly on my hands) from various incidents in my past. I have a jagged one on the back of my left hand at the base of my thumb where a heat gun burned me when I was 7. I have a bulbous on on the back of my left hand from a piece of sheet metal. I also have a scar on the left side of my face (my left side is a magnet for injuries) from something when I was a baby.

The mosquito bites that I kept picking at when they scabbed over has left a few dots on my skin that haven't gone away even though it's been like ten years.

This troper has a scar on the underside of her left forearm, right above the elbow. It happened when she cut herself with scissors, intentionally. Her mom wants her to get it removed, but she refuses, as it reminds her not to cut again. She also makes no real attempt to hide it, and if people notice it, she tells them the truth about it, because she's tired of the stigma around self-harming.

Funnily enough, averted on this troper. Most of the scars I've ever gotten are nigh indistinguishable from the rest of my skin.

This troper has a three-inch scar running from the base of his thumb to his wrist bone. It's noticeable enough that he's frequently asked if he had carpal tunnel surgery. He got the scar while playing a board game.

This troper has a short scar on her forehead from where she cracked her head open falling down some stairs at a young age. It's nearly invisible these days, but is still there.

This troper had a rather... unfortunate encounter with a cocker spaniel when she was four. Nearly sixteen years later, the scar is still there. I've had a couple operations to move it and make it less visible, but you can still see it. It's been awhile since anyone's asked me how I got it, and my mother claims that she doesn't even notice it. I'm the one who notices it the most, but then, it's on ''my'' face. It doesn't bother me as much now, but when I was little (and the scar was still relatively fresh)? It gave me some... self-esteem issues.

This troper scratched several (maybe 6) scars into his back, i hate ring worm.

This troper has loads of scars, thanks to his crappy luck, but two most visible ones are horizontal scar on the forehead he got when his brother tripped him towards our TV when we played as kids, and thanks to this tropers hairstyle it is in plain view and highly visible even after 12 years. Another scar (well two in fact) he got when hes friend had just gotten himself a new (Really Big) dog. Naturally this idiot troper went to stroke it and instantly got bitten for it. Penetrated all the way to muscle and left two quite large scars on his arm.

This troper has a burn scar on my left hand from accidently pouring boiling water on it when I was 5. However it just looks like a reddish mark.

Besides the usual "picked at her wounds when she was a kid" scars, this troper still has her appendectomy scar, and one nearly invisible one by her eye where one of her family's past dogs bit her when she was little.

This troper was born when they were phasing out smallpox vaccination. My mother remembered that my older sister had been vaccinated, and my younger had, but not about me. Then one day I realized I had a scar on my arm and pointed it out -- yup, a smallpox vaccination scar.

Okay, all the usual bumps and scrapes for this troper, including a big old gash in his calf from breaking into a house (it was my house...long story.) But the true 'forever' scar? A slash across my cheek, caused by my too-long fingernails at ''less than a day old''.

When this troper was born, the bones in her feet weren't aligned correctly, so she had to have surgery done on them. There is still a very long obvious scar all along her foot from it that raises lots of questions whenever she goes barefoot or wears sandals.

A broken glass sliced off two spots of skin of the back of Edgy's right hand. Meh.

This troper fell down hard on the floor when he was five, opened up his chin, refused to get stitches, and thus he was left with a scar. He has another scar on his leg from an operation, another on his back from another operation, and a scar on his wrist from an injury he received as a baby.

This Troper has two scars. Both are on her left knee. One is a small, deep one that was caused by the incident which made her forever averse to riding bikes (specifically, the time she got gashed in the knee by the crank). The other is from a nasty fall that she took (she was running on an incline to catch a bus, lost her balance, fell, and ''slid''; she also injured her right knee, palm and elbow, but those did not leave scars) which led to her diagnosis with vasovagal syncope (basically, if she is in pain or suffers blood loss, her heart rate and blood pressure both go down and she faints).

When This Troper was really young, she had a lymphatic cyst on her right leg, just above the knee. It wasn't cancerous or anything, and I didn't NEED to have it removed...but it was a very obvious, hairy (eeewww) and it kept getting warts on it which, being the hyper little kid I was, I kept knocking them into things, which caused the warts to burst and bleed, scaring the crap out of me. I had it removed just before my fourth birthday, and I still have the surgery scar to prove it - it's huge, and it spans about 75% of the width of my leg.

This troper has had acne since the age of 9. It's improved greatly since I turned 18, but my face is still scarred even at 19. It's to the point where nobody can tell if my cheeks are permanently red because of the scars or because of rosacea. I also have a scar on my right knee from falling off a scooter at age 11. It's sort of the same color as the rest of my skin, but still fairly noticeable. And yes, the injury was infected, probably why the scar is still there.

When this troper was a couple weeks old, while his mom was cleaning the house he examined a broken piece of glass too closely and cut under his eye. At 20, it is still clearly visible and the dive can be felt easily. Additionally a cyst this troper had when about 10 was removed and the scar from its removal can still be seen if people get the chance to look.