From my reading of social media there are two kinds of neurodivergents: 1) hates showing, most unpleasant experience, sensory overload 2) loves showing, 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

10 minutes

How do you wash in that time? That’s just enough to get wet.

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.