How I Shower: What it Means

Sometimes I wonder if I’m just better off not knowing things and what those things actually say about me! Not long ago I had a conversation about two and three syllable car names and learned that Corvette is not pronounced “Cor ah vette” that sent me down a rabbit trail wondering what else have I been pronouncing wrong my entire life? I think we’ve all been having a conversation with someone just enjoying the day went out of the blue,they say something to imply that something that you have thought your entire life is actually incorrect. Sometimes we verbalize it,sometimes we discreetly get out our phone to fact check, but however we handle it we’re never quite the same afterwards. OK, I’m being dramatic but this morning I imagine my surprise when I was scrolling through Instagram and realized that not everyone showers the way I do!

It started innocently enough scrolling through Instagram, making my daily social media posts. I stumbled across a post that said showering backwards is a sign of neurodivergence. I took a deeper dive, what is meant by backwards? Apparently, this means facing away from the shower. Wait surely everyone faces away from the shower when showering I thought back to any commercial or movie clip I’ve seen where they facing the shower or facing away from the showerhead. It seems to me that my memory recalls them facing the showerhead. Anyone following my OF page knows that I face away from the shower head. Are they just being polite? No one’s ever questioned this decision are all of my followers of the neurodivergent type? Are we all just a happy little band of people showering in a way that conflicts with “normal society”?

I lost the next half hour of my life, reading articles about sensory overload, how warm water on the back can regulate the nervous system and make you feel safer. That neurodivergent people do not like having water in their face that they often use a handheld showerhead and that they prefer to shower with dim lights or no lights and need to use soaps that are calming. I thought about this for a while. Do I face away from the shower for any particular reason? Well yes I don’t want water in my face. Could I adjust the showerhead so that I didn’t get water in my face or stand at a different distance to prevent the water from being in my face? Again yes but why not just shower backward and is it backward or is it the correct way to shower? I’m going to put it to a question for all of you when you shower do you face the shower or only when rinsing that side is there a correct way to shower and how will we ever know the truth?

Thank you for listening ❤️

Patsy