It sometimes can change me, but not for the best. My uncle is an expert at criticising, but he has now turned me into a very paranoid person, and now I've found myself having to avoid him (even though I feel bad when I have to do this).
But criticism has helped in positive ways sometimes. When I was about 14, my mum firmly said, ''you can't rely on your cousins all your life, they are getting older and having friends of their own. You need friends of your own too.'' So for a few years after that, every time I was in a social situation where I didn't feel very comfortable in, I just thought about what my mum had said, and that made me push myself more into making friends. I still think about it now, and it's made me feel happier in my social life, because I have stopped relying on my cousins as being my friends, and I've found some friends of my own. It's quite sad (as in upsetting) but it's all part of growing up, and it's got to be done (unless you don't want friends, which I do).
Also the girls at school used to get onto me for ''being so obsessed''. I did have a crazy obsession over a man, and I told everyone in school (well, not the whole school but you know what I mean), and I went on and on about him and people started getting fed up. Even the teachers banned me from going on the internet because all I kept looking up was this man I was obsessed with. So some of the girls started getting onto me to not be so obsessed and to keep him to myself a bit more, and they also pointed out that I will lose a lot of friends in my life if I couldn't keep my obsessions under control a bit. I didn't believe them then, but after I left school I realised they were right, so I found some new people to get obsessed with and since that obsession started, I didn't talk excessively about it, and I just taught myself when the appropriate times are where I can bring them up, and so on. And it's worked!
So, yes, sometimes criticism does help me improve, but I don't like people criticising me over things that upset me.
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