I think I got misunderstood a little bit. You guys might think I'm a weirdo, but I'll reveal to much personal information in order to explain. lol.
I hit a rough spot my senior year in highschool and mixed in with the wrong crowd. The morbid stuff wasn't as big back then. But I had a shaved head (with an exception of these stupid bangs :rolleyes: ) and black hair. I had the piercings and wore chains and spikes. My little crowd went out of our way to look dirty and freaky. All we ever did was sit around and have these wannabe intellectual talks about how the world sucks, people suck, politics suck, life sucks, everything sucks. We all abused our bodies at one point or another. We were so hateful and pretty much suicidal. Only two of us pulled out of that and now have productive lives. The rest are druggies, in mental hospitals, etc... My best friend at the time, who was an honor student and beautiful girl...who changed with me our senior year, is now a lunatic. She just sits and rocks herself and doesn't speak.
Then, my brother (we're 5 years apart) went through similar crap. He was a perfectly ok kid, and then started hanging out with this crowd. They all painted their faces white and wore black lipstick, eyeliner, nails. They walked around in capes and misc. vampire attire. My brother and his wife are now adults and they have embarrassing scars on their bodies from cutting on themselves.
That's my only experiences with people that dress gothic. I'm talking specifically about gothic dressing, not black clothes, body piercing, etc...
I know that I am totally stereotyping. And I hate people like that. I guess I'm the hypocrite that Kayann's referring to in her siggy. ;) If some person in goth walked by me and smiled, I'd stand corrected. lol.
BTW, look! We all turned out pretty ok! The brother I'm talking about is the one in the darker hair. Don't let our looks decieve you though. We're still wierdos. :D
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