"CABBAGE WHITES TURNED MY SON INTO A CABBAGE"

"Dead butterfly remains"

That's like saying someone was killed to death. You can't have one without the other. Remains already says it's dead.

I learned from high school biology class around that age that injecting random shit into your blood isn't a good idea when I asked "what would happen if you just injected air in someone" and got the answer "they would die from an embolism."

I mean, I was 14 once, and I have 0 butterflies in my bloodstream. I'd say that should be old enough to know better..

My personal opinion is that a 14 year old should know not to inject things into their veins because it's dangerous.

We used to smoke cinnamon sticks. Good times.

That's Malcolm x tea.

Helps with withdrawals

Syringes I could get, I used them all the time for applying glue. It's needles that weren't easy to come by.

Eating and directly injecting in your bloodstream are not the same thing

They did say toxins in the butterfly mix and I think it is unlikely that a 14yo would be grabbing distilled or RO water for his secret experiment. Not saying it wasn't something to do with the butterfly, but the water alone may have been enough.

They can do depending on what they eat - the article mentions that one possible suspect data milkweed. This isn't uncommon - a lot of daytime moths, like the Cinnabar and 5 Spot Burnett, eat ragwort almost exclusively which is so hepatotoxic that you have to clear it away from field edges if you have horses. It is a good tactic as it makes them unpleasant to eat and their black and red markings are clear danger warnings.

I’m sorry, but there is so much confusion and chaos hitting this current generation of both parents and their children, that needing to have the “don’t inject yourself with butterfly remains” talk is not something many people are thinking about.

If you kill your kid, or raise them so stupid they kill themselves, and I guess if they're your only kid, then it still is a Darwin award for the parents yeah?

TBF, how many parents would it ever even enter their minds that anyone would do something like that and need to be warned not to? "Son, it's time we talked about the birds and the bees, oh and also the butterflies--don't ever inject those."

Honestly, this feels like one of these things you can't even teach someone. Even at 14 years old, I never would have injected something into myself. I'd know only doctors or trained medical personnel should do that unless it was an epi pen.