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those wacky thai

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why do you send the harm at us in that way huge
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I had to wear the damned things for three years. Why on earth anyone would choose to wear the blasted things is beyond me.

/with deborah

(mm, perhaps it's one of those "schoolgirl" accessories to make one appear younger/more innocent?)

I remember, though, being a fourth-grader, thinking my sixth-grade brother's braces were pretty keen, and wanting them, and everybody rolled their eyes and said I'd get 'em in a couple years.

I couldn't wait, I was so excited.

It's probably a status symbol (braces are expensive and few families have the money/care enough to invest in them), kind of like the long painted fingernails on cashiers that prove they don't have to work for a living.

HA! Deborah, I wore mine for many more years. Lets see, I had braces on my baby teeth (is that even the word in English? Milk teeth?) when I was 5 and 6 years old, to try and prevent the catastrophe that happened later anyway. When I turned 13 I finally got my 'adult' braces - and they wanted to put one of those things that go on the outside around your head on me (gaaaah! Scary!) - but I ended up with just the biggest braces they could find eventually. It was the spring I was going to turn seventeen before they finally came off.

And you know what? Now that my teeth are moving again, I want braces. It took me a long time to get straight teeth and I'll b damned if I let them go again.

Plus I never did get rid of the metal brace glued to the inside of my bottom row of teeth. Apparently that one doesn't come off. I wish they had told me that before putting it in. Bastards.

Yep, baby teeth is what they're called in North America (milk teeth is usually applied to animals). I can't believe (well, I do, but you know what I mean) that someone put braces on baby teeth. I never had one of the head gear thingies but my older brother did.

I can see wanting braces if they're needed, but not as a fashion accessory. Although what Hugh said makes sense. It is quite possible that people are wearing them as a status symbol.

A few years back I entertained the idea of braces again. Because suddenly I thought it looked cool and it was sorta the last chance to do it before I got too old.

Now I'm just too old! HA! *Smiles with crooked teeth*

But yeah that baby-teeth braces thing was nuts. Plus it gave me a lisp and I couldn't say "street" without spitting.

hmm, dabitch - orthodontic technology has, apparently, gone a very far way from when I had 'em as a kid.

Maybe there's a modern alternative to your "permanent" band?

/never did have a chance to get my braces locked with someone elses "by accident" =(

Why on earth anyone would choose to wear the blasted things is beyond me.

They are a bit of a fetish item.

Mitheral, that doesn't surprise me. As someone said (Mefi? Metachat?): if you can feel, hear, see, taste or smell something, there's bound to be a fetish attached to it.