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?
That the assumedly unique, mysterious and hopefully supernatural ability I’ve had since childhood is actually only extremely rare and is called ear rumbling, and basically consists of a voluntary flexing of the tensor tympani.
I assumed that was something everyone could do 🤯
Wow! I also assumed it is the same for everyone!
Honestly, I figured it was one of those things people didn’t talk about because it was useless.
Same, there’s dozens of us. We’re like the mutants in X-Men but cooler
TIL I have this!
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