Current Events > Why some people don't wash their hands

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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200417-the-hidden-reasons-some-people-dont-wash-their-hands

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There's no hidden reason. I just don't want to bother most of the time.

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There were days as a kid that I didn't wash my hands after wiping my ass. I figured I didn't get shit on my fingers so I must be good to go. Coincidentally I had pink eye often, no idea if it was connected.
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Because some people are fucking animals

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I don't wash my hands as often as I should. But it's not some big mystery to me as to the reason. I am very uncomfortable with my hands being wet. When I was in pre-school, I literally started crying when the teacher tried to force me to do finger-painting. Having anything wet or slimy on my hands makes me queasy, and no matter how well I dry them off I feel like there's something still there for like an hour afterwards.

As I've gotten older I've obviously gotten better about suppressing the nausea, of course. But I still avoid it whenever it's reasonably possible to do so. If I take a shit, for example, I always wash my hands. But if it's just a piss I usually don't bother (or will simply do a quick rinse with water and no soap).

I get a similar feeling if I'm wearing tight-fitting gloves (latex medical or food service gloves are the worst) for more than a few minutes. I think that comes from when I was a kid as well. I used to get these really weird bumps on the insides of my fingers every spring as an allergic reaction to something we were never able to figure out. They were unbelievably itchy and the only way to really even keep the agitation to a tolerable level was to wear gloves to help avoid rubbing them pretty much 24/7 for like 3 months a year. Baseball batting gloves seemed to work best. They just sorta stopped showing up when I was around 15, but wearing gloves still gives me phantom itches to this day.

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