I don't think you necessarily need to worry about self-inflicted pain... I used to do that a lot as a kid, and still don't think there was anything unhealthy about it. I just wanted to be tough and to develop my pain resistance - I wasn't being suicidal or self-hating or anything, and only used methods with non-permanent effects (nettles were a favorite).
As for flying things, I have a childhood story about that too... We had some really old Christmas hard candy that we didn't want to eat, so me and my brother put in out on the windowsill (is that the right spelling?) and opened the window so the wasps could get to it. The wasps were really happy about it, and we ended up with *lots* of them crawling around our window for several days. We had a net on the window so they couldn't get into the house, but we'd put our hands under the net all the time and play with them, and they never stung us. To full of candy, probably <g>. Weronika On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:07:19AM -0700, susan wrote: > i think you can be sure no one here will try that at home! it's good to > know she wasn't completely insane. a mother would have to worry about a > child if she liked inflicting pain on herself! -- Weronika Patena Stanford, CA, USA http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
