Our Mission

Comfortable In Our Skin helps young people of all appearances and abilities achieve their full potential by fostering peer support and celebrating unity in diversity.

“Unity in diversity” encompasses a broad range of conditions, races, and sexuality as well as physical states traditionally labeled as “handicaps” or “birth defects,” which we reject as promoting prejudice, exclusion and unnecessary feelings of inferiority. We want to promote a global culture that celebrates differences and works to ensure that every child can become a secure, productive member of society.

Who We Are

Comfortable In Our Skin is a support organization that is unique in many ways. It’s meant for kids and young adults. It combines the power and reach of multiple social media outlets. It does not define its members by a diagnosis. For those who are patients (you don’t have to be), it’s the only patient support website we know of that was created by someone who has both the doctor and patient perspective.

At ComfortableInOurSkin.org we want to know you no matter what you look like or who you love. Others will too. Explore what true beauty is, and find it in you. Whether you have a rare syndrome, a rash, a birthmark, a stutter, an acne emergency or a bad hair day, you’re not alone.

Let’s work together to create a world – online and off – where no one will be judged and rejected because of physical or mental differences. What we all have in common is the need to figure out how to be comfortable with our differences and unique qualities, inside and out!