Your kids want a tattoo or piercing? Here’s what pediatricians recommend

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m glad you didn’t take him up on his offer, LOL!

[Bodleian_Girl]

But don’t you think trying to make yourself look different just puts you in the group of people that just want to ID their supposed difference?

[Celerity]

“But don’t you think trying to make yourself look different just puts you in the group of people that just want to ID their supposed difference?”

Good question.

I’m goth. Yup. Black nails, dyed hair, even eyeliner (Although not in years!). I’ve been this way since I was a teenage boy.

I work on cars, hunt, I’m more to the right than Archie Bunker and I’m a devout christian. I have no “except” and I have no policies.

You see, it’s not that I don’t _care_ what people think of me, it’s that I’m not _afraid_ of what people think of me.

The distinction is easy to speak but not easy to understand.

[Bodleian_Girl]

But you copy someone else to look Goth, so that’s not really being “different.” That’s just being a follower.

[Ellendra]

We had our kid get a tattoo. He is diabetic and wouldn’t wear the medic alert bracelet he is supposed to have on at all times. The tattoo is on the inside of his forearm.

This makes sense.

I've also heard of a guy who had suffered total amnesia twice. He decided to have his name, address, and his wife's phone number tattooed to his skin, so he could at least get help if it happened a third time.

[Celerity]

Who am I copying to be Goth ?

And of course, when I say Goth, I don’t mean 14th century Austrian :)