Anon learns to love the bath bomb

drop your childhood stories:
>be me, age 12
>hate showering more than anything
>it feels gross and i hate getting wet
>my mom starts telling me that if i don't shower every day then i can't eat dinner
>i want my dindin so i come up with a genius plan
>let the shower run for 10-15 minutes while i sit in the bathroom
>quickly wet my hair with sink
>mom buys it, i get dindin
>after a month she gets suspicious
>realize i have to step up my game
>now i run the shower and rub my arms/neck with hand soap
>also run my hair under the shower so it's dripping wet and not just moist
>she asks why i haven't asked her to buy shampoo yet
>come up with final version of my genius plan
>i'll stand next to the shower, let the water run, rub soap on my whole body and also use shampoo on my hair so it smells like shampoo
>then i'll rinse off in the sink
>all while the shower runs

i did this for four years until i realized i was just showering on hard mode

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Kids are great. Mine spend 5-10 minutes refusing to do a two minute task.

Kind of like how I spend three or four days avoiding a ten minute phone call.

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- I am currently on month 6 of not calling the dentist about a painful tooth
  
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  Not the flex you think it is lol
  
  Seriously, get your teeth fixed. It’s such a huge impact on your quality of life, especially later in life when that damage really starts to affect your eating habits or self confidence
  
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  Broke a tooth on a pizza crust once.. 5 years later it abscessed and I had to have emergency surgery to have it removed.
  
  Fun times :/
  
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- "dinner is ready in two minutes"
  
  Two minutes later, dinner ready
  
  "but I just started a new game!"
  
  🙄
  
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  "Why did you do that when you knew dinner was going to be ready in two minutes?"
  
  "dunno"
  
  :/
  
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  “but I just started a new game!”
  
  Too bad, you either quit that game right now or no videogame/computer for you for the next 2 days.
  
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- 4 days... I've been avoiding some phone calls for straight up 3 years now, the people probably think im dead.
  
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If this isnt fake op may actually be on the spectrum. Washing yourself with the sink Is also called a catwash.

been plenty of times i ve been way to overtimulated to handle a full shower its much more manageable to wash and dry hair and body parts separately one by one.

Op learned what many autistic people do. Inventing an alternative method while masking it into the socially acceptable method.

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- It's also called a whore bath. He might just be a whore.
  
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  A friend of mine is a non-native English speaker. He teaches at an elementary school and works with 'English as a second language' students. He casually mentioned that he always tells his students to take a 'horse bath' in the bathroom sink after recess if needed. He was traumatized when I told him that he'd misheard that phrase for his entire adult life.
  
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  Reminds me of a snippet of conversation I overheard at the grocery. Kid’s talking to their mom and yells “child prostitution, ever heard of it?” She was pissed.
  
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This is a right of passage. Growing up there are times when you find out that the easy way to go about doing something is the way your parents were trying to pound into your head all along

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- Rite* of passage
  
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  Write-off passage
  
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- some of ye all were just highly regarded
  
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  I first read that as highly retarded, and thought it was a bit excessive.
  
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I’m constantly amazed at the variety of possible human sensory differences.

My problem is not spending the whole day in the shower.

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- The white noise aspect of the shower is amazing. Have you ever turned off the lights and just stood under the water in the dark? It's pretty great, in my opinion.
  
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