At A Glance
Author	Dr.Pyro
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My dear readers.

I am 14, I turned 14 on June 7th. I have my ears pierced nine times all together, my bridge pierced, and and off-center ring labret.

All of my ears have been done with a gun, including my cartlidge. (I now know better).

I pierced my bridge myself, and a freind of mine pierced my lip.

Now before all of you go on about how I'll regret it, and I won't be able to get a job, and how I'm just an immature teenager, yada yada yada, think about this for a second.

I am in Year 11. I am a year and a half away from graduating high school, and throughout my life I have felt outcast, and this is the reason for my body modification. I don't do it to be cool. I don't do it because my favourite rockstar is doing it. I don't do it because my freinds want me too. I do it because I find it attractive and therapeutic. Often if someone else has the modification I want, then I will be turned off it. I love being an individual and what I was once afraid of showing, I am now proud of. I don't care if people point and stare, or laugh and ask themselves what my parents must have done to me when I was younger. When people ask me if it hurt, I tell them the truth. I don't snub them off as just another unmodified, unenlightened person like so many of the older modified community does. Some people ask me why I do it to myself. I don't shoot back with some smart-arsed answer. I be honest.

Yes, when/if I remove it it will leave a scar. It will be noticable. I am perfectly aware that there may be problems getting a job for me. But that's O.K, because I don't want to work in a place that is so closed-minded as to judge people on their looks.

Now, I'm not the sort of girl to see a piercing on someone one day and immediately jab a needle into my body. I researched these piercings. I read all the experiences on BME that I could find.I hounded my local piercer for information, and asked as many people as I could about the procedure. I didn't just decide on a whim.

I do all my piercings well. I sterilize everything, and I use proper needles. I pierce a size bigger to allow for room. I take care of my piercings well, and visit BME very often to read up on aftercare and news. Not every young kid who wants a piercing is going to mutilate their face in the process. Sure, some will, but I, for one, will not.

Yeah, when I'm eighteen I may not want piercings anymore. Sure, I understand that. And then I can take them out, and the scars there will remind me of when I was young, and why exactly I got pierced. Or I might want piercings still. In which case I'll continue to get pierced. I'll pierce my face, my nipples, my genitals. I'll get tattooed. I'll get some sub-dermals. I'll get suspended and I'll get branded and cut and I'll do an apprenticeship in body modification so I can further enlighten other people.

I've been asked many times why I do this. I do it because I like the look. I like to be different. I know that when I'm alone, or sad, or both, I can reach up and touch the metal in my face, and the emotions that went through my body when I got pierced will return. It's better than cutting. The amount of times I've sat in my room, wishing that I could end it all, trying so hard to get the little blades out of my shaver. I wanted so bad to cut myself. But then I touched my ears, or my bridge, or my lip, and realised that above everything, I would come out of this pain alright. My body would survive, no matter how battered, or bleeding, or scared. I could do it.

I do my piercings myself for two reasons. One. My parents won't sign for me. And I'm not just being a rebellious little bitch here, my parent don't want me doing drugs. I don't. My parents don't want me going out and having sex. I don't. I do what I want, not what someone else does or doesn't want me to do. Two. There are very few people who I would trust with a needle so close to my body. If I pierce myself, I can control the amount of pain. I can stop or start when I want.

I'm not prepared to wait until I'm eighteen because I mightn't want a modified body then. I might go out of body modification completely, who knows. But I'm one of those people who refuses to not do something.I live for the moment, and I want to experience everything in life. I want to travel the world, and taste new things, hear new things, see, smell, and touch new things. I want to do it all.

The Infamous Dr.Pyro :p