#body autonomy

but my god guys i got some tattoos today and i just keep feeling more and more in my actual body than i have ever been in my entire life

But it'd put me in a mental facility behind my will. I'd loose my job. I'd loose my family's respect. I'd be seen and mentally unstable and unwell and no one would look at me the same.

But if I pay a shit ton of money it's fine. It's just an extreme body mod. I may loose my job, but I could write it off as an accident. People will look at me weird but understand.

It's complete bullshit.

Today my boss was telling me about a "hilarious" video he saw about a girl who got a septum piercing without telling her parents and how her dad put a 9 volt battery up to it to electrocute her while she was sleeping. One of my other coworkers rightly pointed out that this was abuse, and I said, "I mean it's her body. Shouldn't she get to decide what she does with it?"

His response? "My kid's bodies are mine until they turn 18."

I know make up isn't for me.

But.

I hate make up the way I hate fake flowers.

So what if your petal is wilted or bruised.

You blossomed. You withstood the storm

You sought out the sun.