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who are wrong, drinkin outta cups, yes i have three water bottles in this room with me but this is a building without running water, i drink directly out of zero of them! i have a cup!

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Clean the mold out of your reusable water bottle including the cap and straw

Mold poisoning will kill you and has a high chance of causing severe hallucinations and nightmares while it’s doing it. My final message goodbye

Oh, hey, yea that’s a good reminder! Wait a second tho

A year or so ago I saw someone who studies bacteria on food surfaces talking about how she never ever uses a water bottle for longer than 2 days without washing it with hot water and soap or running it through the dishwasher and I’ve become really adamant about it ever since. Everyone has enough water bottles to keep them cycling through the dishwasher and in use.

Also please don’t die.

Yup to all of this, but also, if you read this and went “lol, I have too much ADHD for that - do you know how many water bottles I would actually need to buy?”

I need you to listen closely, right now

Yes, you might, in fact, need to buy a mountain of water bottles

“But the plastic-”

There comes times when disability, sustainability best practices, and your health cannot co-exist

And you cannot stop being disabled

You might need to not only buy a mountain of water bottles, but also keep prepackaged single use water bottles for emergencies when every surface of your house is covered in reusable water bottles that haven’t been cleaned, and you find yourself asking “what’s the harm in using this one for one more day?” for the seventh day in a row

Or going “well, I’m not that thirsty anyway” and stopping drinking water altogether

Don’t make yourself ill holding yourself to standards you cannot meet

Well, this stopped me cold.

“There comes a time when disability, sustainability best practices, and your health cannot co-exist.

"And you cannot stop being disabled.”

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i don’t wanna be a weird old person but there’s this great invention that holds liquids you can drink from, it’s called a cup or a glass, it can come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and you can use it any time you’re near the source of the liquids you like to drink, and you can just refill it whenever, and you can wash it however you want, and if you’re lazy about washing it, it’s open on one side so there’s nowhere for bacteria to really build up? anyway i recommend them, they used to be so fashionable as to be omnipresent and nobody seems to use them now but i promise they work great. i even like to bring them places and then pour my water from my bottle into them, and then i never put my mouth on the bottle so then i can share it without sharing germs, and don’t have to wash my bottle as often, so i don’t need that many bottles.

cups or glasses often come in sets of multiples, so you don’t tend to run out of clean ones either!

you can even wash and reuse smallish glass jars for this purpose. salsa or jelly jars work great. a little harder to clean because the mouth is threaded, but still more sanitary than a water bottle because the mouth is wider so you can get your hand in there to scrub it. Can’t recommend ‘em enough.

I know this sounds condescending but I am fully losing my mind at the thought that someone would need so many water bottles to have a constant supply at all times every day or otherwise they’d get dehydrated. I’m sure there are a few lifestyles where that’s the case but please let me preach to you the good word about just having a cup of water in your house. If you ever spend time in your house I really cannot recommend a drinking glass enough. You can ignore this if you like but if you had not considered drinking out of a cup let me remind you it’s a thing you’re allowed to do, especially if you left your good water bottle at work and don’t have a spare.

Bonus: They make these things called pitchers, which you can leave in your fridge, and then you can have cold water whenever you want, in your cup! (Your picture was not posted)

I mean this in a kind and friendly way: your respons

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I'm certainly sorry if it came across that way, but the disability I thought it was mostly about was ADHD, which I do have (well, probably, I don't know how to pursue a diagnosis), and which was the only disability specifically mentioned in the original post, and as part of that there's sometimes this problem where you get stuck in a loop of something where you can only do it if it's one way. So that's who I'm meaning to address-- if you think you can only drink water if you have your water bottle because that is the routine you have, I'm saying, there are other options. If you have a disability where you can only drink out of a bottle, which I apologize, was not a thing I had really thought about, then this is indeed a wildly inappropriate answer.

No, I surely do not intend that people who can't take my advice should take it, and I'm sorry, I forgot that this is the era of the Internet where we don't have context, we don't just talk to people who know us, and we therefore can't assume good-faith intentions by speakers anymore. I know that also sounds condescending but I genuinely do mean it-- I was fully flabbergasted within my own assumed context, and did not think of other contexts there. The post did not mention special water bottles for disablities etc., or anything of the sort, so I didn't pick that up. I don't know if that's ADHD of me or what, because again, diagnosis beyond reach (you have to have executive function to pursue it, it turns out, and I'm using mine up not dying of other things apparently), maybe it's just me missing the point like I generally do.

So, yeah, no, if you can't do a thing, then you shouldn't do it, whatever lifehacks you can do to manage your conditions you can do, you should do them, and I suppose a note to my future self, if a post seems really wildly weird to you, you're probably missing the fucking point of it, but this note will not do me any good because I will forget it when I next need it (after dwelling on it in every quiet moment between now and then, of course, because that is the way).

So, cool, how many of my other notifications are people also mad at me for missing this same point? Let's find out. (Your picture was not posted)