Piercings galore!
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usullusaAs soon as I am gainfully employed, (cross your fingers everyone) I'm getting a second pair of holes in my earlobes. I definitely want at least two piercings in each ear, but I'm not sure if I want 2 or 3 in my left ear. (And I'm thinking 5 in my right)
Wait, is there some meaning behind which ear is more pierced? I feel like I'm always missing out on all this Western pop culture stuff and then I look stupid. It comes from growing up in the Private School Bubble at school and in the Immigrant Family Bubble at home. I don't even watch television...
I would get my naval pierced, but a childhood surgery (I was six I believe) to fix my hernia gave me some fairly minor scarring and a prominent outie. The story, however, does not end there. My parents decided to get it "fixed" a couple years later. (I was asked if I wanted to, but I don't think an eight year old should be allowed to make choices about permanently modifying their body.) So after THAT my belly button just turned really horrid looking. Imagine somebody taking a scalpel to an outie belly button and trying to carve it into the appearance of an innie. Yea.
I think it might have turned out okay-looking if actual cosmetic surgeons had done it, but my hazy memories tell me my parents/the hospital actually had surgeons who normally do hernia operations do it so that they could lie and get the insurance company to cover it. In fact, I remember my mother telling me to lie about it. The degree to which it is appalling that my parents had surgeons perform a surgery on me that they were not qualified to perform is overwhelming. Whatever.
Point is, I don't want to draw attention to my mangled naval with a piercing.
Wait, is there some meaning behind which ear is more pierced? I feel like I'm always missing out on all this Western pop culture stuff and then I look stupid. It comes from growing up in the Private School Bubble at school and in the Immigrant Family Bubble at home. I don't even watch television...
I would get my naval pierced, but a childhood surgery (I was six I believe) to fix my hernia gave me some fairly minor scarring and a prominent outie. The story, however, does not end there. My parents decided to get it "fixed" a couple years later. (I was asked if I wanted to, but I don't think an eight year old should be allowed to make choices about permanently modifying their body.) So after THAT my belly button just turned really horrid looking. Imagine somebody taking a scalpel to an outie belly button and trying to carve it into the appearance of an innie. Yea.
I think it might have turned out okay-looking if actual cosmetic surgeons had done it, but my hazy memories tell me my parents/the hospital actually had surgeons who normally do hernia operations do it so that they could lie and get the insurance company to cover it. In fact, I remember my mother telling me to lie about it. The degree to which it is appalling that my parents had surgeons perform a surgery on me that they were not qualified to perform is overwhelming. Whatever.
Point is, I don't want to draw attention to my mangled naval with a piercing.
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Date: 2009-09-07 04:46 am (UTC)One of my male friends in elementary school wore a skirt. I really wish I'd stood up for him and kept in contact with him, but as I child I desperately wanted to fit in and desperately hated people so... it was an odd time and I was still trained well by our heteronormative, binary culture. I got to a certain age and rejected all things "girly". But these days, assumably straight guys tend to wear one earring. Gangbangers especially seem to waer that big diamond-looking stud (honestly, I always thought they were hideous, but that's a different story).
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Date: 2009-09-07 05:10 am (UTC)I commiserate about the not being able to handle being touched on your torso. If people touch my lower back I panic like woah. No matter how prepared I am for it. No discernible reason though, unlike you.
Elementary school is sort of crummy like that. Little kids are so amazingly vicious. More so than teenagers I think. And usually you're just not old enough to stand up to the pack.
Every one and their grandma has at least one ear pierced here. It's like some sort of NYU law. Must have facial piercing. Often accompanied by emo floppy hair.
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Date: 2009-09-07 06:30 am (UTC)Yeah, it was not the best time of my life. Well at school anyway.
AM JUST PICTURING EMO-HAIRED, PIERCED GRANDMAS. it's vaguely hilarious.
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Date: 2009-09-07 06:46 am (UTC)There was pokemon when we were in elementary school. I find this to be the redeeming factor in that period of my life.
LOL. EMO-HAIRED GRANDMA MYSPACE PIC. Complete with eye-searing cleavage shirt. Have fun going to sleep with that image in your head. :D
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Date: 2009-09-07 07:05 am (UTC)THIS IS TRUE. except I was so anti-conformist that I refused to admit I liked Pokemon until it wasn't cool anymore. I ♥ Pokemon.
OH GOD THAT'S TRAUMATIC