TESTIMONIALS

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Comment by Michelle on July 23, 2008 at 10:49pm

This song has really helped me so much it makes me feel better about myself. I'm so tired of the medias influence on others how we are supposed to be a size 0 or have flawless skin it makes me sick to think our kids would grow up thinking they have to be that way to fit in. Some guys and girls wont even talk to me because im not skinny enough or pretty enough for them its a sad time. But perfectly flawed has really helped me get through it all. thank you Otep your my idol

Comment by Clove on July 23, 2008 at 10:56pm

I don't know if anyone has seen the flick "What the (bleep) Do We Know? But if you have and you remember the scene where the pretty pinkies are getting killed by the big scary spikes because she feels ugly....well this song helps me get through those days. Especially the ones where I'm ready to hop in the shower and catch a glimpse of my naked self in the mirror and stop and look and think "My God, I am such a fatty, look at that gut!" When I get out I listen to this song and think...."Ya know....someone's gotta be squishy and huggable around here." Thank you Otep for writing this song and helping people get through their day and find self esteem they may have never known they had and to celebrate their flaws that make them unique. <3

Comment by ToxicKandyKid on July 23, 2008 at 11:23pm

I terribly dislike the message I left, I wasn't expecting it to record that quick... Anyway, to reply to Clove, I have seen that movie, it's... really odd.
Otep's "Perfectly Flawed" has help me so much. I am, to be quite honest, an ex-cutter. The first time I heard this song I nearly cried because of how silly it made me feel for hating myself so much for all these years. Some people want to meet Otep in person just because she's famous or they love the music... I want to meet her so I may thank her for helping me through some crazy hard times. Whatever I can do to help this movement along, I want to know. I'll do it.

Comment by Dale on July 23, 2008 at 11:31pm

*~Im A Wiccan And Im BI...I Beleave That You Should Never Hide Who You Are...So Everyone Knos...Most Ppl DOnt Like Me Becuz Im Just Me...And It Really Bothers Me That Ppl Look Down At Me Becuz They Think Theyre Better Than Me And When I Listen To Perfectly Flawed I Feel Like Im Better Than Them Becuz I May Just Be Perfectly Flawed But I Least Im Perfect...I Love Otep Your My Hero~*

Comment by Whisper on July 23, 2008 at 11:53pm

I love this song, I'm sick of people trying to make others feel like shit for the way they look or act. This song has helped me feel more comforalbe about the way I am, I know now that I'm not the only one who accepts people for who they are. Not make them worrie because they not a size 0 or whatever. Thank you Otep, from the bottom of my heart thank you.

Comment by Ariel on July 24, 2008 at 12:03am

I used to look in the mirror and think that I was so hideous and needed all of this plastic surgery and stuff like that, and would cry all of the time. Your song Perfectly Flawed totally changed that for me. Now I look in the mirror and I think of how beautiful I am inside and out, and that I'm unique and perfectly me. It made me realize that what is on the inside is the thing that counts. Thank you. <3

Comment by kevin on July 24, 2008 at 12:19am

Hi, i've been very overweight all of my life and the school years was terrible and what a relief when it was over. I always ate to relieve the pain of how humiliated I was about my size. Then as I turned 21 I turned to alcohol to cover the pain which did nothing but make me an alcoholic. As I approached 30 I did absolutely anything I cold to lose weight and I did but the weight would just return plus a few pounds each time. I then started to use meth to lose weight and lost an incredible 200 pounds and everyone around me said i looked great but they never knew that I was hooked on the worse drug in the world to drop weight. I would look in the mirror and think that for the first time I looked great without all the disgusting fat and no one was staring at me in shock at my size. I then overdosed on meth soon after and nearly died which put an end to my weight loss. I now have severe anxiety and panic disorder due to the overdose and take a lot of medication for it. I cannot even have a beer if I want because of my meds and all my problems. My weight got really out of control after the overdose and all I did was eat just hoping that all my problems would go away if I was no longer around. The song "perfectly flawed" inspired me to realize that it doesnt matter what others think of me as long as I was happy with my self inside and out. My weight did get up to 441 pounds but soon after I joined weight watchers and go to meetings every week. I have now lost 75 pounds and eat very healthy and exercise daily. My life is much better and I want to thank OTEP SHAMAYA and the band for this beautiful song which i'm sure will help millions around the world..

thank you :)

Comment by Amber on July 24, 2008 at 12:23am

I've never really listened to what the media says on how I should look, and all that. I find it's a waste of time. I'm very comfortable with who I am, and always will be. Who I am, makes me happy and I refuse to let the negative things people say bring me down. I don't always seem like the kind of person who truely loves themselves but I do. And after hearing this song it just inspires me to love myself even more. To embrace any flaw I've had, do have, and will have. It has also inspired me to try and help even more with others who feel uncomfortable in their own skin. Thank you Otep for the inspiration you give me, and many others to be ourselves, and love who we are.

Comment by Kristina on July 24, 2008 at 12:32am

This song really is amazing. It's saying what everyone should be thinking and encouraging how everyone should be feeling. Everyone has an insecurity. My weight will always hold me back from one thing or another. My confidence, if any, comes in spurts, and I'm still learning to love who I am.
This song is just going to have to remind me each time and try to change if I want for me and just me and not listen to what some people have told me all my life. Even though it hadn't been many, it's still effective.
So joining this cause and realizing other people are in the same boat as I am and are thankful for this support group. :]

Comment by Nicole Crawford on July 24, 2008 at 12:53am

Thank you Otep. I mean it. Music is what gets me through and yours is no exceptions. I am flawed. But oh so perfectly. I'm overweight, bi, wiccan, and bipolar. But those flaws make me me. Make me what I am and have become and will become. This song touches me deep in my spirit. I'm so tired of turning on the tv or opening a magazine there is some woman who weigh 100 pounds weight and I am supposed to believe that she is beautiful, while am not with all of my imperfections. I refuse to listen to the propaganda. I decided long ago I like me for me. Please keep doing what you do. And for all who read this as Otep may not ever see my gratitude, listen to the song. Trust in yourself. Believe in ourself. Don't let someone tell you your dreams are imossible. My mother wrote me a note righ before she died and in it she told me goodbye with the following words and I will share them with you. Hold them in your heart as I do. "You are very special and always will be. Don't ever let anyone ever tell you differently" (Shirley Crawford October 3 2008) I dont know you and you dont know me but I love you all and we are all beautiful. Thanks again for letting me speak here and remember, we're all perfectly flawed, works in progress. Thanks. :)

Comment by Tara on July 24, 2008 at 2:25am

undecidedly me.
By- Me (tara!)

The pieces of me are separated by diversity,
parts that never measure out quite equality,
My anatomy consist of different verities,
many properties and undecided definitions of sanity.

All in all, I'm undecidedly me.
Caught up in a stream of my own insecurities.
The properties of my undoing's.
My soul resides in my chest, where my heart should sing.
My heart pulses on my sleeve, pinned forcibly for the world to see.
My emotions surround me, a never receding tide of humanity and humility.
The shifting waves constantly crash into me.
Hear me.
In this deafening sea of hopelessness, and defiled dreams,
Haunting my thoughts like the ghost of a pirate ship,
defiled in rot, pulling into the misty harbor of my thoughts.
Raiding my senses with self doubt of my self-convictions,
inhibiting my daily functions, my ability to make decisions.
But, now? I know its okay.
I'm me, and I'm here to stay.
Screaming, 'I'm perfectly flawed'
And that it's perfectly alright.
Because, I'm here. I'm me.
I'm unique, and I am I.
Now, tomorrow, and until I die.

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I've always been down on myself. My weight. My looks. The way I never 'fit' in. Perfectly flawed, the meaning, the song..? Otep, herself, as well as her art, words and meaning.. Has inspired me to accept myself, because no one else matters as much as I do. I've started writing poetry again. I've started drawing and painting again. And its because, I'm learning to accept myself, my looks, my weight, my everything. I'm a work in progress, I'm flawed, I'm rejecting my own self doubt on my being-- my reflection. I'm judging my judging, and I'm changing it.

I am I.

Comment by Kat on July 24, 2008 at 3:27am

I've always been different. I have Bipolar 2, with schizophrenic paranoia. I've been medicated since age 9. I've been in and out of hospitals and special schools, trying to figure out 'what's wrong with me'. I've never really felt accepted, I've been laughed at and ridiculed. My own family has disowned me for my disorder, my beliefs, my choices. My own mother won't waste a second to tell you that I'm broken, I'm a sinner, and I'm worthless. The meds cause weight gain, so I can't lose the fat. I'm so sick of men looking at me like I'm good enough to consider sex, but do they ever ask for a date?? Instead they choose these skinny 'perfect' women.

How do I react to all this?? I'm heavily medicated, I drink way too much, way too often, I smoke. What happened to the little girl who felt loved and had dreams?? For the first time in years, I saw a glimpse of that girl. I'm beginning to see her more often. I'm Perfectly Flawed, and I need to love myself before anyone or anything else. I feel accepted, loved, and hopeful when I listen to this song. The doctors are cutting back on my meds, I only drink casually, I don't smoke as much, I feel okay with myself, even if my family doesn't.
I've spent 22 years of my life isolated. I'm ready to be me! Thank you, for giving me the acceptance, and the knowledge that there are so many other people who feel the same!!!!

Comment by Inferno on July 24, 2008 at 6:30am

Mine
By(Me) Shanon


My skin
My flesh
Perfectly flawed
In its own unique way

Heart and soul
Flesh and bone
Not just skin alone

The flesh pillar
Pierced throughout

Sequencing the events
Telling the tales
From beginning to end.

Comment by Inferno on July 24, 2008 at 7:18am

Ok, so maybe leaving the poem and nothing else might of been a little odd.
I have never been one that wanted anyone to know how I felt, whether it be about myself or about my past.
Which I guess those are both one in the same.
I don't really want to get into detail so I won't,
By the young age of 13 too much had happened already, not just the cruelty of school children, but of others, I spent the first 13 to 14 years of my life getting the shit beat out of me on a daily basis. I fought back of course, maybe I provoked some of these outbursts, I don't know and probaly never will. I have had some of the most heinous things happen to me, yet here I am. Still Shanon, and I am still fighting. Yes I am gay, I have bipolar, ADHD, and an assortment of other diagnoses. No I do not like taking medication for them it makes me a zombie, I feel if I can handle it on my own then I can make it through anything. I have also struggled with bulimia since I was 9, I can eat now without getting sick, and am somewhat learning to like my body.

The first time I heard the song Perfectly Flawed, I had just bought it and was sittign in my car. The song came on and I started to cry. It touched me.

Everyone always would call me crazy or off the wall or something alone those lines like saying "You're mental" I always replied back with "No I am perfectly Insane" So this makes sense. thank you guys for standing up for what you believe in, and giving me the strength to do the same.

Comment by Shelbi on July 24, 2008 at 9:16am

Hi. My name is Shelbi, and I'm perfectly flawed. I was anorexic for about 4 years of my life. I was constantly tired and depressed, hating the world and myself. I hated how I looked, the things I said at all the wrong times. I hated everything about myself.

Slowly over the past year or so I've been healing. I've started to think of myself as beautiful. I can talk to people again, and I eat regularly. Every time I hear this song it makes me want to cry.

Thank you Otep for writing a song about perfection, without being mushy, gushy, and lame. This is the perfect song for this generation, the perfect song to inspire beauty. :)

Comment by Trinity on July 24, 2008 at 9:26am

The song Perfectly Flawed has really made a huge impact in my life and really changed how I look at myself. Everyone around me has always been a "prep" I have always been the black sheep and never fit in. I was always listing to heavy metal and friends liked pop, I never ever fit in and was not even excepting my self. I was scanning though my music I had down loaded and saw perfectly flawed and turned it on and put it on and listened to the lyrics and started thinking why the hell should I care what other people think of me. Yeah im Wiccan. No im not size 0. Why am I hating on myself just because im not "popular" SO the song really changed the way I look at myself. Im not the most beautiful person but looks arnt everything... Many things make you beautiful.

Comment by vicki on July 24, 2008 at 10:51am

I think perfectly flawed is a beautiful song. this is a wonderful cause. no one should be ashamed of who they are.

Comment by Lisa-M80 on July 24, 2008 at 12:24pm

Perfectly Flawed gives me a scence of well being of who I am, and what I will become. It Makes me calm and the song lets me escape to my own reality. It sends out the message how we are all perfectly flawed.

Comment by Sara on July 24, 2008 at 12:51pm

someone is always too fat or too skinny, too smart, to stupid, too tall, too short, too pretty too ugly. no matter what goes on someone always feels they have flaws that people look down on or even envy. ive met one of the most beautiful girls ever. she literally looks like a model..actually she did modeling..anyways...she feels she has flaws. everyone does...and i feel im too fat, too ugly, too attached..i always feel im too something...this song made me realize that i can be perfectly flawed and its ok...it made me feel better about who i am and how i look. now im more comfortable with my self =]

Comment by Jacki on July 24, 2008 at 1:12pm

Perfectly Flawed is an inspiration to me. Hearing that song for the first time was like someone saying that it was okay that I don't look like a runway model and I act different than anyone around me. No, I'm not perfect and I never will be. That song makes me okay with that because it is our strange imperfections that make us unique.

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