For better or worse. Small scale or large. Personal or shared. What is an event you’ve experienced that changed the way you act, live, feel, etc. It could be short-term or long. Share what you feel comfortable with. Triumphs and tragedies alike.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      To spare the more morbid details, I somehow got it into my head that my dad died because he’d been “poisoned by accidentally swallowing mouthwash”. And so I stopped using mouthwash because I was scared that it would kill me “too”. Eventually this came up in conversation with my mom, and she told me that I was mistaken — but I just never really got back into using mouthwash despite that reassurance. I think a part of this was just that I associated mouthwash with my dad so strongly that using it without him was too uncomfortable.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        It’s funny what small details kids latch onto and carry with them for the rest of their lives. If it helps, you should check out the song “What about Mouthwash?” by the late Trevor Moore