I consider myself ugly. When I was younger, I was less ugly though. I remember back in elementary school, the teachers had us paired up with girls to do a square dance. By strange luck I was paired up with a girl that many of the boys considered to be the prettiest girl in the class. I declined to be her partner because I thought she was too pretty for me. But I never admitted to anyone the reason why I declined. All the boys looked at me with incredulous expressions and saying, "Why, StormRider, why?" I couldn't tell them. So the teachers paired me up with another girl.
With hindsight and maturity, I would now have accepted the original pairing -- not because I have a better opinion of myself but rather I would now be worried about whether that would have hurt the girl's feelings. At the time, I thought I was doing her a favor by declining. I couldn't imagine a girl that pretty would be happy to be paired up with someone like me. But now I think about how would a girl feel if she felt rejected by an ugly guy?