I’ll share mine first.

I had a psych patient one night pile shitty toilet paper next to his toilet overnight. Normally my psych nurse brain would consider this a symptom of disorganized psychosis, EXCEPT!

I remembered an aita post about a conflict between a western OP and his middle eastern roomate trying to figure out why their roommate put their shitty toilet paper in the trash. Turns out many middle eastern toilets can’t handle toilet paper.

Oh and inpatient psychiatry doesn’t provide freestanding hard plastic trashcans (turns out they make great clubs). We gave him one of our freestanding paper bag trashcans and problem solved.

TL;DR; Reddit expanded my cultural knowledge enough to differentiate disorganized psychotic behaviors from a genuine cultural difference. Thanks reddit!

Anyone have any similar examples of positive exchanges of knowledge or culture using reddit?

  • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I mean I didn’t learn this from Reddit but I used to piss in bottles a lot in my room and my wife caught on to it (we have separate rooms because to both of us sleep as sacred and we don’t need to share a bed to love each other) and got really upset about it. Until I explained to her that when I was young my dad used to beat my ass for getting up and going to the bathroom in the middle of the night as if I was some kind of pussy for not being able to hold it. As a result, I conditioned myself to not pee at night in the bathroom, but pee only in what was most readily available. As I became older, it carried over when I would wake up in the middle of the night and be too scared to go to the bathroom for obvious reasons. Sounds ridiculous. Might even sound disgusting but that’s my experience and there’s nothing wrong with me and I don’t do it anymore but it took me a long time to understand that nobody was going to kick my ass for going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. It wasn’t because I was disgusting and it wasn’t because it was mentally ill. It was because my father had conditioned me.