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Much to the chagrin of some of my family members, I’m a big fan of tattoos. I’ve got really great ones like the owl for my sister and I have really dumb ones like the bottles of beer I got with my buddy (if you’ve seen my Cheers posts, you can probably guess what beer I got inked on me forever).
But some people are still put off at the permanence of tattoos, the possibility of regret afterward, and even the pain factor of it all. Pat Masga, a tattoo artist out of Northwest Inkorporated, ran into a situation with those issues, but it was other tattoo artists who had those fears, not the client.
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Other tattoo shops Buzz had visited with his parent’s had turned him away or bumped the prices way up.
This was because Buzz stands at 6’3″, and weighs 200 pounds. Mix that with the fact that not even his parents had any idea how exactly he would react to the pain of the needle, and it’s reasonable why tattoo shops would be hesitant.
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“As a child, he loved the faked ones and would freak out when they washed off” -Buzz’s mother, Sandi Green. Buzz had apparently decided on getting Tommy Pickles from Rugrats over 5 years ago.
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I love this tattoo, because growing up watching Rugrats, Tommy Pickles was the original badass. Sneaking out of his play area, keeping a shiv in his diaper, and he rode a dog like a horse if he ever got hopped up on too much chocolate milk.
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In fact, less than a week later he was back in the shop getting that half-sleeve done.
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This made me laugh, but it’s also pretty true. Just because he is autistic doesn’t mean he will immediately regret this choice. And people without autism definitely have gotten tattoos they wished they hadn’t.
If I’m allowed to walk into a shop and tell the artist, “I met a girl named Jenny today, so I want her name tattooed across my neck”, then why can’t Buzz get inked after 5 years of waiting.
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Moral of the story? Tattoos are awesome, Tommy Pickles is a badass, and hats off to the people who see a challenge and say “let’s make this work!”
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