Comments by "Kathy Bramley" (@kathybramley5609) on "I messed up. You're using too much detergent." video.
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This video was okay. My favourite bit was "feels like sticking it to the man!" - that's my kind of vibe! But my thing is also feeling weirdly triggered by unsympathetic dismissals of things people can't articulate well or might not have a good reason for or that just might be outside of your experience. This is as a very clumsy and possibly ADHD late diagnosed autistic. You sort of reminded me of people who thought it was ridiculous when I have tried to express what I have found hard. Double empathy problems! But I work quite hard a lot of the time to understand other people!
Why would people prefer to wash up by hand!? Why would people prefer the opposite!? Well, it's not just on efficiency grounds. Ability or the sense of overcoming things matter. Loading & unloading a dishwasher without chipping the plates can be harder for some of us and all the ridiculous decisions about how best to put things in there takes an age and can be quite mentally taxing! But then washing up can be physically difficult, and a sensory nightmare too. But it's also a sensory ritual with side benefits.
Rituals that we're used to especially can be soothing and psychologically valuable. It can feel like overcoming something, give meditative thinking time and feel homey: the dopamine hit of achievement, going through something piece by piece. But so can loading a dishwasher it's just a different sensory experience.
You have more control on the adaptations for hand washing, like washing one thing at a time, quietly, in a plastic bowl without bending low down. Uses a lot of water but has its own points!
That said, a dishwasher hides dirty dishes from relatives and social workers, can be filled bit by bit and many find it easier. What works works, as you say.
"It's just soap in the machine" - ahhh, not so fast!! You've missed the mess problem, probably because you don't have this issue. Clumsiness, dexterity, tremor and physical aspects of disability have implications for the type of product: spilling a pod on the kitchen floor from a wheelchair, with MS, Parkinson's, or as a dyspraxic is a very different matter to spilling powder. Asthma and other sensitivity can be triggered by powders thrown up in the air too.
So, I really dislike the implications people are st*pid or never clumsy enough to spill powder outside the machine or somehow people like that shouldn't exist. I guess people can be annoyingly smug about anything. But that's me ranting a bit harder than is maybe fair!
You were ok: good on the tech and industry sh*t and advocacy for your preferences - but I think you could up your game on psychology and general accessibility aspects of objections & what seems easier.
Yeah, colours sell better doing nothing for more profit, but why do they sell better!? Is there a sympathetic reason we can bring up without undermining your message?
And there's other issues mentioned above that even for the skeptical at some level (at least ADA) actually do qualify as real psychological & physical factors that are worth considering as 'in the real world' useage factors.
Disabled people are the largest minority/marginalized group, diverse as we are. And fuller consideration of the diversity of people whether or not they meet or would claim the disabled term is really beneficial. It certainly is for the companies looking for profit! Why should the devil have all the "good" takes on morally neutral vulnerability.
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