Last year, I cut a shit ton on my legs, and these scars cover almost all of my thighs and a huge slit runs down my calf. I show a lot of skin on my upper body, like i'm almost compensating for the lack of skin I show on my legs. Whenever my parents want me to go swimming I decline because that would mean I would have to wear shorts. They always talk about how i'm lazy because of this, and how I have some strange fear of water.  But whenever I wear swim shorts I get a ton of weird looks, some moms even turn their kids away from me? It's been over a year, and they don't seem to be fading away. I have tried everything like scar creams, vitamin E oil but it doesn't work. Can I get them lasered off? I hate looking at them and being reminded of that time in my life... 

But I don't know if I should just "own them" and not give a fuck