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You look old, tired and run down (people actually used tell me that out loud to my face) if you don't use Botox, and fake if you do (but it is less polite to say that out loud). I prefer the latter.

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There isn't anything really wrong with Botox in my opinion, it's not permanent and it works more as a preventative measure for wrinkles and visual aging than anything.q

NeatoBuilds

Just eat bad pickles and get botulism the fun way

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Ikr? It is just weird that there is so much pressure on people to not do it but also remain youthful/age gracefully. In a complete rebellion to society, I've pumped my face with enough Botox to tranquilize a horse, but I don't have wrinkles (I'm smiling about it but you can't see that either).

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where is the joke? is it just that people who use Botox to look different... look different?

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Pennomi

Like most things, excessive usage is the problem. A little Botox can be a win but some people overdo it. Faces are supposed to have SOME lines in them!

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Yep, different is the right word for the results of a lot of plastic surgery.

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I've been vaguely curious to try it. Are you joking or can you really not move your face easily? Cause I think I'd dislike that.

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I might be reading into it, but I thought the joke was that parents can react childishly when you change your appearance in a way they don't approve of. My mum keeps saying 'ooops I thought there was snot hanging from your nose but it's just you piercing', for example.

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Getting some botox is not "a lot of plastic surgery" tho

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ah that makes sense actually

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I read this as an Alzheimer's/dementia joke. And those are never funny.

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I'm a little bit happier since I trained myself not to give a shit what others do with their bodies. Especially aesthetic choices, regardless of how 'subtle' or 'excessive'. Takes a bit of mental practice to get there though.

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They need to make a piercing that looks like a blob of snot for people to wear around their parents.

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It's a toxin that temporarily paralyzes the areas where it's injected.

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I bet it exists. I'd check Etsy, but I'm too lazy.

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I have been using it for over 10 years for headache/migraine, so I get a way way higher dose than cosmetic, much more frequently, and with far more injection sites (60-80 depending how my neurologist is feeling and what shifted complaints I have). So like take that for what it’s worth.

It turns out after a long enough time (which, fun fact, super long-term use hasn’t really been well studied! Yay!), you actually do get some facial expressions back, but they are super muted. Mostly your face starts to employ other muscles that aren’t paralyzed. If you also get injections elsewhere for many years, like I do (neck and shoulders), the recruitment of other muscles can lead to some nasty rebound pain as the unparalyzed muscles desperately try, and fail, to make up for the loss, and knot the fuck out of themselves in the process. I’m dealing with this one now, going on 6 mths.

But for the most part, yes, you do lose a solid range of emotional expression, depending where you get the injections. Say goodbye to anger, surprise, confusion, and unfortunately compassion, among many other brow-heavy expressions (I decline injections in the constricting muscle between my eyebrows so I retain passable expressions of compassion confusion and anger, but surprise is gone entirely). For the first few weeks after getting it done, starting at about day 3 post-injection (every single time for at least a decade, I promise), you’ll feel how paralyzed your muscles are. It’s a weird feeling. You try to make a face and can’t, but you can feel the struggle. If you ever adjust to it, you still feel the first week or so, but significantly less.

I’ve declined to have any purely cosmetic injections, despite my neurologist making regular comments over the years about my lop-sided smile lines and crows feet (I use my face in asymmetrical ways; I like the wrinkles. It’s character.), so I don’t have the smile problem, tho I do get TMJ injections which make chewing tough stuff really difficult. I get enough of the shit injected already that I don’t really want more just to be “pretty”, but even with the current regimen, I get to look eternally youthful as I fall apart from the inside. Yay..

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Why do you assume I don't know that? The person I replied to said they think faces should have lines, that's clearly about aesthetics. Also, I believe in bodily autonomy, without caveats for toxins, as long as informed consent is given. I also believe in peoples right to use other toxins, like ethanol.