Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ah people who try to hard. To accomplish something, anything.
My kid is super accomplished in sports and academics. And has multiple piercings. Sorry your kid is so binary that it's one or the other. Waiting for DC to get home from the summer job in a medical office as I write this, where everyone loves her.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ah people who try to hard. To accomplish something, anything.
My kid is super accomplished in sports and academics. And has multiple piercings. Sorry your kid is so binary that it's one or the other. Waiting for DC to get home from the summer job in a medical office as I write this, where everyone loves her.
speaking of binary...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ah people who try to hard. To accomplish something, anything.
My kid is super accomplished in sports and academics. And has multiple piercings. Sorry your kid is so binary that it's one or the other. Waiting for DC to get home from the summer job in a medical office as I write this, where everyone loves her.
Anonymous wrote:Ah people who try to hard. To accomplish something, anything.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s either youthful experimentation that will reverse and will be removed as she matures. (My kid was this, thank god!)
Or it’s experimentation and a lean into counter culture that will not reverse, gradually increase, and the cultures and peer group will influence life and career choices……
You are either a main stream adult or you are not. You cannot be both.
Oooh how edgy! Conformist or non conformist. Hippie or worker. Protestor or capitalist.
Love them supposed binary labels.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not PP but studies show that healthy adventurous people experiment with a couple of tattoos and piercings, ones with several are almost always clinically depressed, no matter how fun they try to appear to external observers. Button,plug, tunnel piercings and large tattoos are often a cry for help.
Oh please. I know dozens of ppl with multiple piercings and/or many tattoos. They do it for themselves not to appear “fun” to others. And it’s quite a conclusion to think all of these folks are clinically depressed.
How do you know they aren’t?
Anonymous wrote:It’s either youthful experimentation that will reverse and will be removed as she matures. (My kid was this, thank god!)
Or it’s experimentation and a lean into counter culture that will not reverse, gradually increase, and the cultures and peer group will influence life and career choices……
You are either a main stream adult or you are not. You cannot be both.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not PP but studies show that healthy adventurous people experiment with a couple of tattoos and piercings, ones with several are almost always clinically depressed, no matter how fun they try to appear to external observers. Button,plug, tunnel piercings and large tattoos are often a cry for help.
Oh please. I know dozens of ppl with multiple piercings and/or many tattoos. They do it for themselves not to appear “fun” to others. And it’s quite a conclusion to think all of these folks are clinically depressed.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sound like how I came home from college. They're fun and not permanent. Ears and nose are totally mainstream at this point. And nipples are usually hidden - maybe not at the pool, but not much is covered at the pool. These aren't things that will prevent her from getting a job or anything.
I turned out to be a totally mainstream suburban mom, who is glad I had a little fun back in the day.
Gross
Anonymous wrote:The piercings aren't the problem. Her mental health crisis is.