Alright, so, this is going to sound crazy, but I don’t like showering. It has nothing to do with the feeling of being clean (I love cleanliness and order), but just simply because I find it uncomfortable to shower. I have a whole bunch of fancy shampoos, nice-smelling body washes, etc to help encourage me to shower, but it still just feels freaking uncomfortable and annoying. And it’s so embarrassing to talk about it because of the stereotypes about people and showering. I end up showering on about an every-other-day or every-two-days basis, and I’d really like reducing that down to every day. I don’t like smelling, or desperately trying to avoid people because I’m insecure I stink. I just want to be motivated to shower without having to constantly force myself to do it for the sake of everyone else or picking up the pieces.
By the way, my psychiatrist strongly suspects I’m autistic. I’m being formally evaluated w/ the psychologists and stuff in late July. So that might be a reason why I have such an odd dilemma like this.
This is a very individual thing. I start smelling really fast, especially during the summer, and i also sweat a lot (which i take advantage of at home by having a good ventilator, which is my constant companion if temperatures start rising above 27°C) - ideally i should shower twice a day so i can feel clean. Medically, everything is fine with me - Blood samples are fine, my circulatory system is fine and i don’t eat fast food more than once every 2 weeks or so, the rest is home cooking.
Since I know that this is bad for my skin, i skip it when i don’t meet people, but for me daily is really the minimum to dont feel icky.