I've picked my nose and eaten boogers since I was a kid, and still do. I usually don't do it in public (but sometimes I do inadvertantly), but I have two really close friends who are auties and do the same thing. When we're around eachother, hanging out, we pick'n'chew and we don't feel embarassed because we all know we do it - it's no secret.
And quite frankly, we don't gove a damn about what people think about us anymore. I personally think this taboo is a very dumb one, and they think so also. We've spent eight years trying to fit in, we've failed, and we don't care anymore. We just want to be ourselves, and we'd rather have two best friends (three people total) who we fel the most comfortable around and are carefree, than 20 friends where we'd have to worry about which guy will backstab, which unwritten rule or taboo that we don't know about we'll break, or which friend wants to blackmail us.
My advice? If it works for you, do what works for you. You're your own person. As long as you don't rob stores, smash windows, murder, rape, kill, scam, decieve, or be an abusive person, why should you worry about that?
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ONTARIO NORTHLAND RAILWAY
Connecting the North since 1902
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