From my reading of social media there are two kinds of neurodivergents: 1) hates showering, most unpleasant experience, sensory overload 2) loves showering, could live in the shower, sometimes exits the shower and realises that they forgot to wash their hair or soap up or something. Only misses their daily shower when they are very busy and can’t find an hour in their schedules.
You may be a neurotypical if you:
- shower each day
- complete your shower in less than 10 minutes
- don’t forget any of the 1-3 things you are supposed to do in the shower
- have no strong feelings about showering
I’ve been known to shower until the hot water runs out. I’ve been known to fall asleep in the shower. I love showers.
Sleeping in the shower! Do you then wake up when you start gurgling?
If you want a good night’s sleep in the shower then get one of those continuous water heaters, or a recirculation shower to save on the water and energy.
I’m suddenly buying a house in extreme need of repairs (including the bathroom), so I’ll look into it, thanks!
Damn, that’s cool.
Damn, that’s expensive.
But what if you piss in the shower? Or worse …
It goes on at length about how the myriad filters remove everything. I hadn’t thought about that, but I don’t think it would clean the water THAT good.
If it’s reverse osmosis literally only water can pass through.
I think there’s two ways to do that.
- A simple heat exchanger from the drain to the cold water running to the shower. A thermostat on the shower reduces the amount of hot water you use as the cold water gets warmer.
- Recovering water from the drain to go into the shower again, probably via reverse osmosis.
Second option requires maintenance and a bunch of engineering. Unless there’s a massive lack of water where you live and you have lots of money.
First option… Well, it requires more piping and that the drain pipe is a heat exchanging pipe - a pipe within a pipe where the cold water is in the outermost pipe, running in the opposite direction of the drain water. I’m not sure how much heat you would recover. The floor of the shower might need to be a bit higher than otherwise. And if you have hard water then I wouldn’t do it. When you heat cold, hard water the calcium carbonate precipitates and you get limescale. To avoid reducing heat exchange efficiency and avoid clogs you would have to descale regularly and it’s just not very accessible. With normal descaling you can remove a lot mechanically but here it would have to be all chemical. And how would you even get the descaler into those pipes?
Tl;dr don’t do option 1, only do option 2 if you have very soft water.
A recovering water system. I can finally have a real golden shower! /s
I don’t know how much neurodivergence factors into it, though Im sure it does. Plenty of these sort of people think they only need to shower once every week or two because they don’t smell and usually insist they have “good hygiene” despite that. Some just straight up can’t be bothered. Both types tend to not have very many friends; who would ideally inform them that they stink.
10 minutes
How do you wash in that time? That’s just enough to get wet.
5 minutes baby. Military taught me to eat fast, shower fast, fall asleep fast, and clean like i have OCD
I should have gone to the military, like I wanted to. When I finished school, I wanted to serve to learn discipline, order, and structure. My parents are both strict pacifists and had dragged me to peace protests from a young age. I didn’t want to break their heart, so an undisciplined civilian life it was. Still lacking discipline, order, and difficulty sleeping.
I don’t known why people are down voting you. You do you. If you want to shoot a gun, go bet one and blast away. If you want to blow shit up, umm I can’t help you.
They can get a blaster’s license and work in demolition, or mining.
Army takes up to 36, and they’re decently disciplined. May have missed the boat on Marines though, and that’s where the true brainwashing occurs, in my opinion. And I don’t mean brainwashing making you want to kill and love war, I’m not fond of either, less so after than before. But structure is a very real thing, and developing good habits.
I’m already over 40. Thank you.
I shower in less than 10:
- Heat water while I undress
- Change water to cold, wet my hair only (dyed hair is a pain, god bless it’s short)
- Shampoo hair, Clear, apply conditioner
- Change water to hot again, wet rest of body
- Stop water, apply gel in body
- Hot water, rinse body
- Cold water, rinse head
- Get out.
That’s like 8 mins, maybe 9 because I spend 2 with my hair, maybe 10 because I spend 2 mins wetting my body to heat it up.
Ofc, if I’m feeling cold I end up spending way longer in the wet body phase.
I had a boyfriend that HAD to shower everytime he pooped. He couldn’t poop anywhere he wouldn’t be able to shower or he would be annoying until we got home. He also had IBS. Lovely time I had
Lol, I love the PSA-style “You may be neurotypical if…”
Nah cause I’m both of those. I want nothing to do with a shower until I get in and then I’ll stay there until I run through 50 gallons of near boiling water. And then as the water starts turning cold I realize I haven’t even washed yet.
This is way too general. Like I get its a joke, but I don’t think anyone showers super quickly unless they are time pressed
I get it, personal hygiene isn’t always a big priority for us nerdy types. But it’s reaaaally not hard to do the bare minimum to keep from stinking, guys. Have some consideration for others when emerging from your cave.
Like most signs, this will be ignored by the people it’s intended for.
The point of the sign is to avoid them getting angry when you throw them out. They will, but others in the store will back you up.
That’s just not how interacting with humans works though.
Chances are there are several individuals who visit this shop with “offensive” hygiene.
The sign isn’t going to stop them coming in.
When you say “hey fuck off stinky”, they’re going to react badly. Pointing to the sign isn’t going to make them any less reactive or defensive.
The correct way to handle this is to pull them aside, tell them you really appreciate them visiting the store, they’re really into the hobby and a key part of the local scene or whatever, but last time they came in a few other customers mentioned their hygiene.
I totally understand that most people don’t want to have that second interaction, that’s fine.
My point is, in either approach the sign doesn’t help.
They’re all going to be "dammit what time is it? Anyone got a calculator? "
When you go to cons you always see these guys who are clearly spending mad cash, but they’re in a ratty t shirt and sweat pants, and they smell like unwashed ass covered in baby powder. You can play magic for 10 hours but you can’t go take a 15 minute shower???
I heard it’s a strategy to make other people disgusted and so they are less concentrated on the game
In the mid 90’s I was with a group of union apprentices attending the mandatory four week training at our headquarters in the Midwest. They put us up at a decent hotel in the downtown area. During our stay one year they had some kind of fantasy con. Many of these people were foul smelling. They were not used to being told they couldn’t enter the elevator without getting fucked up. Some of my fellow apprentices were how shall we say it. Impulsively violent toward people who smelled like unwashed ass. After all nearly everyone of us would shower once or twice daily due to the job. The con attendees quickly learned how to use the back elevator away from our floor.
It was really kinda sad but the Navy also had a floor for their recruits to stay at while they were being processed in. Many were young women all of legal age with the navy personnel trying but not always succeeding in keeping those ladies away from forty or so young construction workers. One of their main tactics was to encourage the navy recruits to use the back elevator. In forcing those unwashed losers to the back we inflicted them on those recruits.
I’ve spent too much time in unventilated back rooms for Magic tournaments. It was musty.
This is my favorite thing to show people when they never ask.
Yes but do they actually enforce it is the biggest question. My game store most certainly does not.
Our local bookshop used to have similar sign at the door. It’s a coffee shop now because people took that “do not enter” to heart.
Probably smells better tho
It smells like there’s a lot of coffee))
Can we add brushing and flossing to this?
Eh. The point is not to ensure everyone takes care of their health. The point is to make sure no one makes the space uninhabitable due to their BO.
Yep, and not flossing can result in some funky breath that really travels.
good thing i don’t play card games anymore. stupid money pit.
Magic the gathering store? Then why is there a Pokémon visible on the door?
Edit, seeing the down votes: it’s a joke guys, come on.
I’d rather smell unwashed gamer than the overpowering perfume in these bloody deodorants.
You do know you can buy lighter scents…
I can buy it with no scent. I wish to fuck other people did. If you put this junk on yourself every day, and put more and more on until you can actually smell it after your olfactory nerves have been burned out by years of such abuse, think about what that’s doing to people that are actually sensitive to this shit.
Nah. They all suck. Id much rather shower more frequently and stay in a climate controlled environment than have some asthma activating supermarket washroom smelling crap making me itch.
Bro what the fuck
Whats so what the fuck about this? Are you seriously saying you believe people smell the moment they’re out of the shower?
Are you saying people smell just from the brief amounts of heat moving from one climate controlled place to another?
Are you saying people smell before the by products that actually smell are produced by the bacteria that are abundant around sweaty regions?
This just seems like ignorance on your part.
You’re unhinged dude. Take your meds.
Your history is literally mostly short thoughtless insults hurled at other users.
What does this have to do with the price of tea?
Unpopular opinion but I agree. Maybe I don’t hang around enough stinky people, but I’ve encountered far more instances of punch-in-the-face perfume/cologne than body odor.
Thank you. Body odor is gross, but it doesn’t give me an insta-headache like the chemicals people douse themselves in every day.
Ha ha lol lets insult customers!
Seriously I do not understand signs like this.
They only scold the very customers they want, while they will bounce off the customers they don’t want.
These signs are self masturbatory in nature. Just someone who wants to rant and feel better than others in a public fashion.
That’s not a sign that just gets put up. That’s a response to a problem.
Im not arguing about whether it is or isn’t. Im saying no sensible person thinks this is actually a solution and this is 100% a narcissism play.
What’s a sensible solution to the problem of unhygienic customers then
Ill tell you what it isn’t: This.
Rude and demeaning text aimed at your customers absolutely does not help the problem.
They could try a probably still bad approach of saying the rooms are warm and so people might want to pay more attention to this.
They could have people just approach those who smell and point it out to them politely
They could have better air exchange to mitigate the problem when not caught.
There are so many options which arent this, because this simply does not work.
Eh, i fw it. Either come back with the decency to hold up your end of the social contract or I don’t want your money.
If you are a regular person, it tells you that you are associated with this now.
It means you don’t want to go to a place that is associated with this.
This isn’t actually affecting the people its pretending to affect.
You’re overthinking what a regular person would think and do
The only way someone would be offended by this, is if they don’t wear deodorant and are aware of their own BO, but decided it’s actually a good thing that everyone can smell it.
Wanting everyone to have a good time and not have to smell something horrible isn’t in any way narcissistic.
Thinking it’s okay to make everyone else smell your own BO, absolutely is narcissistic.
Not at all.
If you are a regular person, it tells you that you are associated with this now.
It means you don’t want to go to a place that is associated with this.
Wanting everyone to have a good time and not have to smell something horrible isn’t in any way narcissistic.
You pretending you don’t understand my point doesnt make your argument sound.
How is it so rude and demeaning? It literally is just a warning sign that if someone doesn’t have a hygenic lifestyle they will be asked to leave.
If you are a regular person, it tells you that you are associated with this now.
It means you don’t want to go to a place that is associated with this.
Why does it upset you so much? Kind of suspicious XD
Ah but we are dealing with gamers here, not sensible people.
