So, in the interests of brevity, I shortened that question, but what I mean is, how often are you told by someone who doesn't owe you anything/a complete stranger that you are handsome/beautiful?
I ask this because, I am incredibly confused about my looks etc. I have been told I am beautiful/pretty a significant amount of times by people who definitely didn't need to. I have almost never (I say almost to avoid lying, but I cannot remember ever inviting that compliment) prompted that compliment, but i get it from all sorts of people.
I don't suffer from low self esteem, I actually feel I'm more confident in myself than most girls my age (seventeen) especially considering how tall I am for a girl (5"11) and how skinny I am and have always been as a child, too.
As a girl, being this tall is weird, and off putting, and I used to be so self conscious and dislike being that tall and skinny.
But still, I'm almost certain that I haven't got a warped view of myself. To be truthful, I feel I can clean up nicely, and sometimes when I look nice in photos, I think I'm averagely pretty, but only from certain angles.
So when I get compliments like "When I first saw you, I thought you were a model. You are so pretty I assumed you were a bitch and wouldn't talk to me. etc etc etc" and other compliments that I know are genuine (the people that told me them aren't the type of people to say something in a mean way) but sound so incredibly exaggerated, like "You're so gorgeous!" in a conversation that was until then about something completely different.
I have been in a weird amount of situations where I go to a house party and people I've never met/wasn't close to (mostly girls) have come up to me to tell me how pretty I am etc. Once at a party, a girl I used to be really close to but never really speak to anymore and her best friend who were maybe a little tipsy literally spent (I think!) half an hour telling me how much they'd idolised me when they saw me around and always wanted to be friends with me because I was so pretty. The same things from strangers like old ladies on the bus, randomly on the street, at an event, etc.
I genuinely don't believe I deserve even a fraction of the compliments I've received. Honestly. I know so many gorgeous, stunning girls who to my knowledge haven't received as many compliments as I have. -- Or maybe they have; that's why I wanted to make this thread. I'm so confused, so can anyone relate? Is this normal?
I'm honestly asking this, I'm not a troll, just a girl who is incredibly confused.