29 May 2023, 11:54 am
29 May 2023, 9:30 pm
My allistic husband agrees that I impact electrical systems. We've been together 30 years and we've collected evidence. If I computer is on sleep it will wake up when I walk by. He will shoo me away from the computer if I am in a bad mood. It seems my cars exhibit electrical problems when I am especially stressed. I constantly shock everyone and the cats and relevant objects, but figured it was because I live in a dry climate now. I just checked with my spouse and he says that doesn't happen to him. Hmmm. (I do not set off metal detectors.)
I find this online "You can find ESD shoewear (such as the Red Wing 2241's I wear constantly)". In the house I wear socks a lot in winter; I'll have to pay attention to see if it happens with footwear or when I am barefoot.
Also, "synthetic fibres like nylon and polyester [and wool] are all culprits for electric shocks. If you don't want to buy a whole new wardrobe, you can add baking soda to your laundry as this creates a barrier to stop charge accumulating".
I'll have to pay attention to when I am relaxed or stressed and with or without shoes or static-producing clothing and see what happens. 
30 May 2023, 7:51 am
30 May 2023, 7:54 am
I find this online "You can find ESD shoewear (such as the Red Wing 2241's I wear constantly)". In the house I wear socks a lot in winter; I'll have to pay attention to see if it happens with footwear or when I am barefoot.
Also, "synthetic fibres like nylon and polyester [and wool] are all culprits for electric shocks. If you don't want to buy a whole new wardrobe, you can add baking soda to your laundry as this creates a barrier to stop charge accumulating".
I'll have to pay attention to when I am relaxed or stressed and with or without shoes or static-producing clothing and see what happens.
Ooh, spooky! My husband says the same. Not about computers but about how static I am. I often shock him and our daughter when I kiss them. They don't shock me or anyone else.
I don't really wear nylon, polyester and wool. I usually wear cotton, acrylic and viscose. Most of my clothes are natural fibres in fact.
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31 May 2023, 6:51 am
I'm dynamic. 
31 May 2023, 7:05 am
^ yes it just occurred to me the different meanings of the word static! 
31 May 2023, 5:58 pm
I wondered if it's just me or some autism thing and we all do it.
OK, it is going to sound like a sad joke now, but "YOU STOLE MY THUNDER"!
BUT, to your question...... This world is essentially one gigantic battery. and a lot of things that move around, INCLUDING PEOPLE, generate a charge, and may hold it for a time. This is especially true on newer carpet, or during the winter, etc.... So who knows. At one point in like the 1960s or so a lot of people found that tapes would go bad. It took a while to find out the cause. The programers often had secretaries or some other people that were often women, and they would take the tapes and put them in the tape drives, like in the old movies showing computer tapes a lot of you have likely seen. Anyway, the tapes rubbing their stockings or whatever wasn't good for the magnetic fields on the tape.
As an aside, I DID once need to have a paper scanner, and I went through two or three before I really realized tat I was accidentally touching the socket and hurting the device. It only happened in winter though, because the humidity dropped which meant the air was less conductive, and the power my body absorbed was enough to hurt such a device.
02 Jun 2023, 5:37 am
