00:00Put a little love in your heart.
00:05Hey everybody, this is Empress, and I absolutely love my scars.
00:12Hey, I'm Jen, and my scar is a part of me.
00:15My name is Amy, and I love my scar because it turned me into a badass warrior.
00:19I was at summer camp, and I was doing my favorite thing, which is swinging.
00:24And then all of a sudden, this really large dog came and bit a big chunk out of my left
00:31leg.
00:31I was three years old when I got my scar.
00:34Every crazy three-year-old gets a scar, but instead of mine being on my chin, it was on my
00:40head.
00:40I was running, and I slipped on a piece of paper that was lying on the floor,
00:45and fell straight into our coffee table, split my entire head open, and was gushing blood.
00:53I was preparing for a music festival, and I was in the process of making a hula hoop,
01:02and I tripped and spilled the entire pot of boiling water on my hand.
01:06I got my scar because I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer when I was 19.
01:10We had to do the first round of surgery, which happened in March 2015.
01:17I was 18 years old when this happened.
01:19It was right before school started, actually, too, so I entered my first year of college with a soft cast
01:27having to hold it up like this in the middle of math class.
01:31I was on bed rest for a month. I did not get the chance to finish up the rest of
01:37the summer, and I also missed the first part of fifth grade!
01:42I remember in middle school, there was this boy who came up to me.
01:47He told me, like, you have such a big forehead, and you have such a big scar, and that's, like,
01:52ugly.
01:52That's mean! And that actually was the reason why I got bangs.
01:56My leg had, like, a dent in it. So instead of my leg just going straight down, it was chooop,
02:04boom, chooop, a dent.
02:07After the surgery, my scar was, like, really, really ugly. It was, like, still with the ink. The stitches were
02:13there.
02:13I was afraid to move my neck because I thought I was going to open the stitches.
02:16But then I kept staring at it and staring at it, and as I saw the ink kind of falling
02:21off, and I saw the stitches kind of sort of dissolving,
02:23all I saw in the mirror was this, like, it was, like, a smile.
02:27I do think that this scar has helped me grow relationships with my parents and my little brother.
02:35Every morning and every night for two months straight, they would clean it.
02:40They would scrape off the skin and scrape off the affected parts until the new skin started to heal.
02:47Both of my parents cleaned up the mess for me rather than me going through the pain of doing it
02:53by myself.
02:54When I was 18 and I went to school, that's when I really started to come into my own.
03:00That's when I lost the bangs, and I felt so confident.
03:03All of my insecurities seemed to start floating away, and that's when I learned to really love my scar.
03:09I began to fully accept my scar in my leg when I went to college.
03:17And I just met so many other people who had, like, scars of different capacities.
03:22And I decided to look at it as, like, a battle wound.
03:24What can I say about my scar?
03:27I love you, Scar.
03:28I love it so much because you tell my story.
03:32I don't even have to say it.
03:33You got to show your smile, and, like, you tell your story, and you power on through,
03:37and you make me power on through, and we got it.
03:41We're best friends.
03:42We got this.
03:43Thanks so much for watching.
03:45I have bared it all for you.
03:47This is how I came to love my Harry Potter scar.
03:50Bye, Snapchat!
