SAVING Aesha

[maddezmom]

SAVING Aesha

She came to America after the Taliban hacked off her nose and ears, a symbol of the oppression of women in Afghanistan. Since then, she's been passed around by well-meaning strangers, showcased like a star and shielded like a fragile child. The fairy-tale ending everyone hoped for has remained elusive


http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/05/world/saving.aesha/?hpt=hp_c1

[justiceischeap]

1. I feel really bad for her

but I also can't help but think one thing she has learned really well is to be manipulative. It saddens me what happens to these women in the Middle East (and in the USA) but man... it's hard to feel bad for her too.

[FloridaJudy]

2. No doubt she's one messed up kid

Though I can hardly blame her. What's she's gone through would send most people around the twist.

But even if she's a borderline - which it certainly sounds as if she is - why won't they fix her nose? Reconstructing noses is the oldest plastic surgery in the world. They've literally been doing it for thousands of years, since amputating noses has traditionally been done to heretics, thieves, and adulterers in many societies. I gather they won't do it until she starts acting "normal", but how the hey does one act normal when everyone's first reaction to one's appearance is to recoil?

[Gormy Cuss]

3. It sounds like the surgeons were concerned that she wouldn't be able to deal with the stress

which sort of makes sense, because reconstructive surgery is so involved and to grow skin she'd be disfigured again if only temporarily because they would use forehead skin for the reconstruction.

Late in the article it sounds as if her guardians are talking with plastic surgeons in Maryland so maybe she will finally get a new nose, if she's emotionally ready to let go of that which made her a celebrity.