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

  • @sbv@sh.itjust.works
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    151 year ago

    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.

    • qevlarr
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      11 year ago

      “dinner is ready in two minutes”

      Two minutes later, dinner ready

      “but I just started a new game!”

      🙄

      • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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        “Why did you do that when you knew dinner was going to be ready in two minutes?”

        “dunno”

        :/

      • I Cast Fist
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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.

    • @CJOtheReal@ani.social
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      11 year ago

      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.

      • @frosty99c@midwest.social
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        61 year ago

        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.

      • IndescribablySad@threads.netOP
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        11 year ago

        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.

  • @Hikermick@lemmy.world
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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

    • IndescribablySad@threads.netOP
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      You’re allowed to do anything anywhere. All acts are permissible, in the grand scheme. I just don’t care to. Now bothering the people who want to say it, that’s my jam.

      • I said fag-got and it got censored. What a fucking joke. Why is a British suet pudding fucking illegal to say? What do they have against British food? Fucking faggits

    • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      Lemmy seems to hate that word more than reddit funnily enough. It was my first instance of learning that Tankies have a FUCKED sense of priorities

      • @abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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        11 year ago

        A lot of us are really hoping Lemmy doesn’t turn into tankie-voat to the extent a lot of lemmy instances are staying away from tankie instances. Being uncool with some shit (like making fun of mentally handicapped people) is part of that.

        • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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          1: The vast majority of people using the word Retard are NOT maming fun of mentally handicapped people, its a word used for someone who made a very stupid decision they were perfectly mentally capable of not making, both people who are and who arent mentally handicapped are capable of being retarded.

          2: Its the tankie servers that gave me a 3 day ban for using the word, the fucked sense of priorities I was talking about was their supposed heavy support of social justice issues while simultaneously supporting/believing Russia/China have done nothing wrong

          • @abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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            The vast majority of people using the word Retard

            I have had too many mentally challenged folk in my life, and they are offended by it. It’s something to keep in mind.

            the fucked sense of priorities… believing Russia/China have done nothing wrong

            Oh yeah, they’re idiots. Thank god they’re not smart enough to make their dystopian wet-dream happen.

            • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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              Thats fair, and tbh I’d never use the term around someone with a mental disability unless they told me to (which HAS happened) in person, but on the internet where a thicker skin is required in general, or around friends I dont really see a better blunt term for stupidity, idiot has the same problem as Retard and any term that works now will eventually be tainted by the few who DO use mental health terms derogatively

  • @leftzero@lemmy.ml
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    Had to do x km/day on the static bike, because fat.

    Got no time for that.

    Old static bike, with mechanical revolution counter.

    Unscrew spinning cable that feeds from the bike into the counter.

    MacGyver Lego contraption, with motor, with a pointy bit that fits where the cable would go.

    Motor goes brrr, do required km in seconds, plug cable back in, rinse and repeat;, parents never find out (I “exercised” while they were working).

    Still fat. 😞

  • @Feirdro@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    I’m constantly amazed at the variety of possible human sensory differences.

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

    • @jesterkun@midwest.social
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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.

  • PatFusty
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    11 year ago

    are you guys that bitch made that saying retarded on a 4chan sub is crossed out

    • Yeah ngl as someone who grew up being called retarded for being autistic I really hate how this word has become a slur.

      Like every time people create a word for a specific type of person it becomes a slur. At some point people need to just get the fuck over it.

      • @LwL@lemmy.world
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        I also just don’t get the point of censoring. I don’t have any particular feelings about the word retarded, but I’m also autistic. Do I get annoyed when people use autistic as an insult (i hope it never reaches actual slur status because I’ll never accept it as such), esp for stuff that has nothing to do with ASD symptoms at all? Sure. Does it make it better if someone crosses it out in a screenshot, or censors it in a quote? Lolno.

        • @smeg@feddit.uk
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          11 year ago

          Censoring is stupid and people self-censoring just makes me think the user is a child who’s scared of being caught saying the naughty words or is just copying what TV does as if they also have to adhere to broadcasting regulations.

          A lot of people online don’t seem to understand the difference between referencing a word and invoking it. For example, we’re in a 4chan community, you should really expect there to be very offensive language in the posts themselves, but we’re adults here and we can look at the word “retarded” without thinking that it’s OK to use as a slur ourselves.

  • @bugs@lemmy.world
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    Are we ignoring the fact they did this until they were 16? I mean like, if this ended when they were 12 that’d be pretty par for the course kid idiocy. But 16? Damn dude.