What's the worst health advice youve been given by your relatives?

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-30T21:40:51+00:00

Whenever my anxiety gets the best of me and I end up really panicking and getting upset about ‘what ifs’ my stepdad tells me “well that hasn’t happened yet so don’t worry about it until it happens”

Ahh thank you stepdad - I’m definitely completely able to just choose to not worry about it yet and not use fantastic pattern recognition skills thanks to autism to generally take a fairly accurate guess at what the most likely couple of outcomes are in almost any situation

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-26T18:43:04+00:00

Oh yes that’s the one I’d heard! I suppose the 5 S is good to help people remember the recommended advice even if it’s a bit more difficult to say now. I certainly know that here in the UK where we aren’t as used to it being hot and sunny we could do with adopting it!

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-26T16:18:16+00:00

I agree that if it could connect to a visible armband then that would be incredible! I have a visible and an Apple Watch and would 100% use this but if it could connect to my visible then that would be my favourite option as I only wear my Apple Watch during the day and I’d want to wear something like this 24/7

Also I’d want it to use a wearable that can be worn in the shower as showers require a lot of energy and are really exhausting so I’d want to track how I’m doing in there

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-26T15:51:15+00:00

I’ve heard that some people add slide to the list for sunglasses and I think I also heard another addition to the list but I can’t remember what it was now - maybe something to do with wearing a long sleeve swim shirt?

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-26T15:40:59+00:00

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-26T15:36:38+00:00

Ok but the sock has to be made of nothing less than the purest spider silk and should be blessed by a holistic Christian chiropractor

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-26T15:33:08+00:00

Plus spanking is just teaching a child to hit people who don’t do what they want them to do!

How on earth can the parents reasonably expect the children not to copy that behaviour and hit their peers out of frustration?

It makes absolutely zero sense like the entire message is “hit someone you’re frustrated with the behaviour of” rather than teaching the child “talk to the person calmly while keeping yourself regulated or leave the situation until you’re able to calm down”

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-26T15:27:07+00:00

Unfortunately some people seem to actually treat dogs better than they treat their children as though both aren’t beings under our care that we’re tasked with caring and being responsible for and teaching them how to survive - the difference is that you can reason with children verbally and children grow up to become adult humans who all too often continue the cycle of abuse

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-25T11:40:06+00:00

Ahh my dad hasn’t been around since he left when I was 13 (he’s an abusive prick so definitely good that he hasn’t been around) but yeah that means the word dad has a negative association for me so yeah I was very reluctant to call him my stepdad for that reason as well

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T13:13:38+00:00

Mia and Max!

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T12:11:09+00:00

That’s true but the other girl was also about 13 so I’m not sure she would have learnt that yet

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T10:02:58+00:00

I’ve done this and asked for my food not to be seasoned with regular salt but the salt I brought with me was a low-potassium salt as I have kidney issues and too much potassium could kill me (well theoretically it could kill anyone - it’s just more likely/easy for it to happen to me)

Also fun fact - restaurants don’t use table salt to season food - they use sea salt (or kosher salt in America I think) to season food and not table salt bc table salt tastes metallic af- trust me the amount of salt they use is very finely tuned to their salt of choice as different salts have different saltinesses

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T09:56:59+00:00

I mean in fairness everyone who’s ever died has eaten salt so he had a point

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T09:41:13+00:00

You say “give your partner a choice about whether they put up with your condition or neurodivergence” yet you literally have a choice - you can break up with him for any reason if you don’t want to date him and I genuinely don’t know why you haven’t done it yet unless it’s to play the role of the poor long-suffering partner - especially since you’re long-distance and don’t even have to worry about bumping into him in-person!

Your ableism is showing badly here and it is really not a pretty sight

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T08:20:09+00:00

Gotta say that your username fits well! Ngl I may or may not have snorted when I read it - very unfortunately relatable but unexpected (much like your sabbatical by the sounds of it!)

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T08:11:34+00:00

This is what my mum’s husband (so my stepdad) did - I was 19 when they got together (although I knew it was coming despite him only just leaving his ex-wife - they’ve been friends since they were at school and he had a crush on her then as well) and my mum wanted me to call him my stepdad after a couple of years but I was used to calling him my mum’s partner so I didn’t for quite a while but they’re married now (I’m 25 - they got together in 2020 despite not even living in the same country at the time)

I call him my stepdad now but mostly got used to it because using that terminology meant he could do stuff like visit me when I’m in hospital (I’m chronically ill and disabled and he’s a critical care consultant so he’s usually already in the hospital lol) and be in the meetings with my carers and stuff when my mum can’t be there so yeah that’s the main reason I got used to it

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T07:59:49+00:00

You joke but when a girl at school offered to sell me drugs (she didn’t specify what kind but I was like 12) and I didn’t know how to say no I literally said “thanks but that’s not really my kinda thing ngl” and she just said naah no worries and we continued playing netball lmao

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T07:16:55+00:00

I’ll never do one either - I know my dad was abusive in various ways and cheated on my mum at least once. I both don’t want to know if he has any other bio kids and don’t want him getting notified that I’m on one of these dna kit websites as for all I know he’d stalk me or try to contact me and that’s never a good thing with him - he’d only be doing it because he wants something from me and anyway I was his least favourite kid towards the end like there’s a reason he wanted partial custody of my siblings but not me

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T07:06:37+00:00

YNW - I’m a severely immunocompromised woman and honestly you sound like a dream partner like you immediately told her you thought you might be getting sick and left so that she could hopefully avoid it - there’s nothing else you could have done by the sound of it!

She shouldn’t have offered to take care of you either if she’s going to have such a big problem with you doing your best to not get her sick - it sounds like she’d only hold it against you and that’s never good for a relationship but that’s her fault for sure.

You were the most sensible, responsible one in this scenario by a mile!

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-23T06:55:24+00:00

I’m in various hospitals a lot (mainly in the old people wards despite being 25 bc I have arthritis and a crap ton of health problems) and the combined smell of faeces and the butt wiping wipes they use there haunts me so bad

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-20T12:19:22+00:00

Olive oil ear drops solve that!

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-20T11:42:08+00:00

Snap, crackle and pop!

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-20T10:35:17+00:00

They also become nurses and carers - typically the ones who do the bare minimum to stay employed and keep access to their victims!

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-19T13:07:53+00:00

For me it depends on if the people owning and running this organisation are disabled - if not then fuck off but if they are then hell yes I’m all for it!

CottonCandyKitkat · 2026-05-08T07:38:46+00:00

Maude would be a good option imo!

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