How often do you bathe?

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How often do you take a bath or shower?

Haha whaat.. I'm not autistic or anything but I kind of have to wonder why anyone WOULDN'T bathe/shower every day, as long as they had the ability to..

I take a bath everyday, sometimes two a day.

Every day is a lot...that would waste water, not that the water around here is any good in the first place...not to mention it's probably unhealthy to shower in it too much. I honestly wish I had a water filtering showerhead, I wonder if they even make those. But I hate gross hair so I have to at least once a week, I try to get most of my showers in at my friends house who lives in the mountains and has good mountain water that doesn't have prozac and only Satan knows what else in it.

Last edited by Sweetleaf on 04 Apr 2012, 8:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I put everyday,but i often bathe more then that, usually twice, even as many as four times a day. I like to be clean, I don't like it when i smell sweat or my ears start to feel greasy. Ick!

Yeah I can see how that would be an issue, bad water makes all the difference haha. I guess I've never had that problem because I live in an area of cali that has good water quality and all..

If I lived in the mountains I would always have good water quality, but not in Lakewood, Colorado........and Denver which is very close is not much better. My cousin lives downtown and I was at her house and she showed me what comes out of her sink, I couldn't even see through it I wouldn't want to drink it either.

Every day when I am going out to work or other activities (so Monday to Friday, plus Sunday). I usually slob around the house in old clothes on Saturday and unwind - so no shower. It might wake up the rest of the household who are sleeping in!

When I am home on vacation, I suppose I tend to shower every second day (as though every other day were a Saturday), when I need to wash my hair or it gets uncomfortable. If I am going out, though, I will shower that morning. If I am travelling on vacation (e.g. overseas) I will shower every morning.

In part, it depends on whether the day has a routine (workdays, Sundays, travelling), or whether I am just sleeping in, getting up and throwing on some old clothes and hanging out in my study, playing on the PC. Unstructured days are shower-free days, structured days are showering days.

Showering is very difficult for some of us to deal with. Personally, I can only deal with scent free body wash, as soap makes my skin even more uncomfortable and scents can cause migraines. Simply the smell of shampoo often makes me feel like I'm going to vomit. I'm unable to wear clothing until I'm completely dried off after showering or bathing, so I need to plan an extra half hour for drying off completely (even if my hair doesn't get wet).

The first few days after washing my hair, its physical painful to brush. (I have particularly dry hair). Washing my hair too often, causes me problems. If it doesn't need washed, getting it wet makes it harder for me to deal with other things, because the temperature differential of wet hair on my back to body temperature is hugely bothersome to me. Luckily, I can keep my hair in a bun on my head when I shower, so I can shower more often than wash my hair.

When someone else can just run through the shower, in order to do the same I must spend time figuring out what I can deal with that day, how much time I have, and whether its an option for me to shower or whether it'll not be an option. Often its not an option.

While its not that way to me, some people with sensory issues feel the water in either a bath or a shower as physically painful. Some, like me, find wet skin while not in water problematic. Some have difficulties with remembering to shower (like me again). While to most NTs showering is just something they do and don't think about, to some of us it is such a major thing to think about that we should reduce the number of hours we'd work if we're expected to take part in regular self-care activities daily.


As for my answer to this question - I bathe rather often in the getting wet sense because it helps with muscle tension, but in the washing with soap-like substances, definitely not daily.

That's probably why I find bathing so soothing; it's all the prescription pharmaceuticals in the water soaking into my skin. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh... That's better.

Really? Wow, I wouldve thought everywhere in Colorado would have good water, I dont know why but gosh that must be hard to not shower often! But maybe thats just me, because I like being all clean and perfectly made up haha.

Oh, wow. That sounds like an ordeal. I had no idea such simple little things could set off SPD so severely!! Thanks for giving me some insight into that haha. And sorry if my post came off as offensive, I was just confused, but now I see how crazy that must be to deal with everytime you just want to bathe..

Once I bathed twice daily, but used no soap of any kind for 6 weeks. I felt pretty good, but
I know I had a cloud around me also. I had to change my pillow case every couple of days because it would smell so awful I couldn't sleep on it. I still don't know why I did that.

Once a day normally, hair washing every 2-3 days, soap used every few days, and I never brush or comb my hair.

You left once every two days/every other day out of the poll.

Shower. Feel. Good. (caveman with exceptional punctuation)