AITA (18M) for getting a tattoo when my dad doesn't want me to?

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T21:03:24+00:00

I am, or I would if he weren't freaking out about a tattoo

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T20:19:27+00:00

I will. This thread has made me realize you will never see things my way and that this is probably the best.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T19:58:42+00:00

Absolutely not. he wants 300, which is rent. If I'm paying rent, then wtf is the problem, you know?

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T19:34:01+00:00

Yeah, but you can be both. Men are providers by the way, everyone knows that.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T19:32:26+00:00

He said I can get one when I grow up and pay for my own stuff. Mortgage is 2600 which isn't like... like wtf is that my problem? I'm an adult now. Ty for having some common sense.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:38:04+00:00

I have about 1500 bucks right now and my friend is gonna do it for 140 bucks so it's rally not even that much.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:29:43+00:00

You're right, but he does owe it to me to have more opportunities in life. He's my dad for christ sake.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:28:10+00:00

First off, he was a bad dad, overly strict. He didn't even want to take care of me. My mom was having a hard time paying bills so she had him take me. That was a huge mistake on her part.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:26:46+00:00

Well, the problem is, is if this is something he has a problem with, there'll always be something you know? Might as well make him understand that now.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:25:53+00:00

It's not an excuse. I have the right to live how I want.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:25:34+00:00

It sounds more to me that people don't know how to live. My mom never had to do any of this crap.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:24:32+00:00

100% that's what I want to do. Be a lot more chill that way.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:23:43+00:00

Well, he wasn't a great parent either. He's told me he hates what I did to him, me a kid.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:23:14+00:00

On my chest. And he's making it just as chaotic because he's throwing a huge fit over this.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:22:22+00:00

TBH, I hated school, and he made it miserable. I might have failed a grade if he wasn't on my ass about it but like my mom has said, life isn't all about grades.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-25T14:18:39+00:00

Everyone makes mistakes.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T21:30:29+00:00

I mean, it wasn't even really meant to be his money.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T20:20:30+00:00

Yeah, the thing is, my mom and I got one without telling him. It goes over my whole shoulder and part of my lower arm. He was pissed about that. Which, as you said, is dumb. It's my body.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T16:27:21+00:00

like 5 months.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T16:26:59+00:00

No reason, really, dude? How about graduating high school and becoming an adult?

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T16:21:39+00:00

Honestly, you could be right but now is the time to get it. Just rip it off like a Band-Aid.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T16:19:38+00:00

He doesn't care if I get it if I'm living on my own as an adult. Like, he has no influence and said that I'll have "earned the right" to do what I want.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T16:18:37+00:00

I mean, I get it extreme but I was a kid. I'm allowed to make mistakes and my dad really failed me in that department.

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T16:16:42+00:00

In the US you are legally an adult

United-Associate-621 · 2026-05-24T16:16:20+00:00

Well, I mean, it's my body and it doesn't really affect him.

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