Tattooed Freaks

People look at us like we were freaks or dirtbags who are going to rob them. Some people are shocked to learn that I own my own home and have four kids and two cats. I have had a few people tell me they thought I lived in a basement apartment somewhere. But most of the people I have met in the tattoo world, the "freaks" as we are called are the most real people in the world. You don't have to be afraid to be yourself, no matter how weird you are. No one will judge you as being to weird or different. It's the weirdness and differences that attract us to one another. Yeah, we might bust each other’s chops sometimes, but always in a joking way. It's the 'normal" people who tend to judge harshly, ignorant of how horribly nasty they are being to the person they are judging. Ignorant, not in the way of not knowing but in the way of not caring. But I guess as long as they go to church and ask the nameless god to erase their sins it's ok to go through life treating people like shit.