Back in high school, I became incredibly paranoid about hygiene to the extent that I damaged the skin on my hands through overwashing, and was paranoid about not touching my shirt/pants after i'd been on a train, between the time when i'd washed my hands and walked to the kitchen table to eat.
At one point I realised it had all gone completely crazy, and during uni I took a conscious choice to relax, and to try and be more 'normal.' This meant observing the way others behaved, when they washed their hands, what they touched, what they considered normal. The diversity of the way people act, and what they think is clean/dirty is startling. I'm still perfecting my own middleground, and the people in this article are doing their best to reconcile so many differing ideas.
The instance in this article that people perceive deodorant-ness as cleanliness is amusing in the least, and nauseatingly smelly for the worst scented deodorants.
At one point I realised it had all gone completely crazy, and during uni I took a conscious choice to relax, and to try and be more 'normal.' This meant observing the way others behaved, when they washed their hands, what they touched, what they considered normal. The diversity of the way people act, and what they think is clean/dirty is startling. I'm still perfecting my own middleground, and the people in this article are doing their best to reconcile so many differing ideas.
The instance in this article that people perceive deodorant-ness as cleanliness is amusing in the least, and nauseatingly smelly for the worst scented deodorants.