piercings

I’m non binary and the way I dress, plus the piercings and tattoos I choose to wear, the ones that help me express who I am, cause me a constant negative judgment from people.
I’m a teacher and the places where I work won’t allow me any opportunities because of this, regardless of the positive feedback I’ve received for the last four years
At the beginning I stood up and spoke about it to my boss, but now I feel like I’m doomed to deal with it and just accept that, as long as I look like this, I’ll have to accept that treatment.
#Anxiety #nonbinary #Discrimination #Prejudice #Tattoos #piercings

Just wanted to give anyone a heads up whose on an aspirin regiment whose having to get their lip re-pierced and it's developed scar tissue, you might bleed, allot, I did for a half hour and taught my piercer a thing or two about basic f-ing 1st aid, even though she's done piercings for 20 years. I clotted and she removed it! I was like, you don't remove the clot,I was telling her to apply more pressure, she wasn't for shit, I finally had to take over, her and the guy who does tattoos no nothing about cross contamination. Unreal. No your piercer.

i’ve been self harming on and off for about 8 years now. I am diagnosed with #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder and #Depression . Now that I’m older i am able to get #Tattoos and #piercings . Often when i feel like i am close to relapse i will book an appointment to get a tattoo or a piercing. After i leave the studio i always have this sense of relief and the urge to self harm is not nearly as strong. at first i didn’t notice that i book these appointments when i feel i’m close to relapse , but it clicked today. does anyone else go through this or cope similarly? i’m sure it’s not the best coping mechanism but it seems that it’s saved me from relapse quite a few times and i am relapsing less often than i did as a kid. does this make sense at all?
#Selfinjury