Or other permanent body things.
I regret some of my scars from cutting myself. Have to make up shit about them when my kids ask…
Well scar sure. With I didn’t need those stitches in my leg. Zero out of 10. Would not recommend. I mean, do people gather scars for fun, like tattoos?
Some people definitely do, but many also got scars from things that while they might not be thrilled about the scar or hospital visit, they are happy with what they did.
Like saving a class of kindergartens from a burning bus on the high way and getting a big scar on their face. I don’t necessarily think that person would like the scar, but they wouldn’t necessarily regret saving the children ether.
I see.
Be careful about offering up identifiable information that you can’t change on a random lemmy post, especially if you’re in the U.S.
For reference, I got a full back tattoo when I was 17, but the only thing I regret is having to get a few bad teeth pulled due to not taking care of them in my twenties.
Take care of your teeth kids. They don’t come back.
I’m not a violent person, but I have gone down on a road bike many times and one of the common injuries is skinned up knuckles. I have some deep scars as a result. It would be easy to assume they were the result of violence. My size and build also supports this assumption. I am entirely the opposite type of person.
My hands look awful, but any scars are literally from my crappy skin cracking horribly from 3 years of food service hand washing. Frequent handwashing is brutal if you have bad skin…
Were you a cook? I did 8 years front of house and my hand never got to that point, even with a 2nd job working in a dirty warehouse
Worse, grocery store deli / hot food counter. Frequent switching between ready to eat food and raw ingredients, and shitty gloves that constantly ripped open.
All my tattoos, they are cheap and one contains my kid’s deadname so I keep it covered is much as possible.
I don’t regret any scars. But I have two tattoos I wish I didn’t have and one I wish was a little different. I’m black, and most artists that aren’t black themselves do not work with black skin. So some of my earlier stuff is “bad” because of that . However, I rarely expose my limbs so I forget about them a lot. At the end of the day, I just don’t fancy them, but I’m grateful they’re not something truly horrendous or offensive.
Edit: I regret getting a second ear piercing, but that’s because it caused a keloid. I was relieved that it was about the size of a pimple and never risked it again.
I have a scar in my left armpit. I have several patches of skin all over my body which looks and behaves funky. I have brown straight hair but where my funky skin is I have blond spare curly hair which doesn’t grow long. I got it lasered on my neck and face as a teenager because I was told it needs to go because insurance didn’t want to continue paying for an acid creme to make it brighter (the skin is also darker and uneven). + random assholes asking me if I didn’t wash my neck. Under my arm the skin got often inflamed from sweating and looked like a rough naked mole. They tried to laser it and I got bad scarring and they decided to cut it away. Roughly 10 cm. The scar is ugly as hell. I can’t feel shit and it is uneven and hard to shave around. Lifting my arm for sport like jumping jacks hurt. Lucky me I hate sport anyway.
Sure, one scar. We were demolishing a bigass concrete retaining wall and I was chipping out the wrought iron handrail. Couldn’t be arsed with safety glasses and safety squints weren’t doing it, so I was just chipping it out with a 35lb electric jackhammer with my eyes closed most of the time. As I got to the last parts, it was really starting to lean out over me.
Absolute looney toons moment. About five hundred pounds of wrought iron fell over onto my head while my eyes were closed and made a two-inch tear on my scalp. It was floppy enough that it didn’t break my neck, but I had to get staples.
I don’t regret any tattoos.
I regret the piercings.
Got my ears pierced when I was a kid, hated wearing earrings and I still have holes in my ears.
At 18 I got a belly button peircing that was even more annoying, so that’s just another hole now. If you’re getting any part of your body pierced that you have to move, really think about what you have to do for the next two weeks because you’ll be VERY aware of it.
I’ve done so much self harm for over 12 years leaving so many scars. Got into skincare years ago which faded many of the old scars, but family finds it so funny that something below them is doing something out of its league instead of just knowing its place as scum below society so I’ve relapsed again with new scars from punching walls.
Have you considered cutting contact? I have a very toxic parent that I had to do that with and it did wonders for my mental health afterward. People like that don’t deserve to be in your life.
hugs
I’ve been trying for years to move out and never see them again. Thankfully I now have an opportunity to relatively soon 🎉 I’m looking forward to being able to exist as a human being without every single thing about me being a joke.
Good luck! You aren’t the joke, they are. Never forget that.
10" chest scar from open heart surgery. Some days I wake up, forget its there, then see it in the bathroom mirror.
“Ooooh… riiiight… that was a whole thing.”
Do you regret getting open heart surgery?
Well, considering the alternative… but it was a hell of an experience and the post operative complications continue 6-7 years later.
I’m mixed.
I have a badly healed broken pinky. It only hurts when I grip someone hard for a long time (get your mind out of the gutter!) such as when doing sports like rock climbing or fencing.
I regret letting my helix piercing heal up. I need to get it re-done.
Sweet Sports, my dude!
I spent a short time in the US Navy, just long enough to get a couple of tattoos that I put literally zero thought into. One, a stupid cartoon character done at a whole-in-the-wall shop while I was drunk faded away pretty badly, but the other one, a sexy sailor girl (done by Philadelphia Eddie himself!) stayed pretty nice for quite some time. I was sober that time. That was about 44 years ago. I don’t necessarily regret them, but I wish I’d put more thought in to them, especially dumb old Yosemite Sam…
I got an ugly scar on my pinky from a bullying incident at school when I was 12. It’s not like this was their intention, but it got out of hand and a door slammed hard on my finger.
I had to get rushed to the hospital, got stitches and a massive bandage for half a year.
The bullies never apologized and it got brushed off as an accident.It’s a reminder of bad times during my teenage years and I still get sad when I look at it.
