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getting face wet

Pats

Pats

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Believe it or not that's always been a big issue with me and created problems. 1 - makes it hard to swim having to hold your face out of the water - so you don't go swimming with friends. I had a good male friend who invited me over for a swim and cookout. His nephews were also there and was making comments and asking my friend things like "what, does she thinks she's a model and afraid to get her hair wet?" It was very insulting and somewhat humiliating, even though I told them I can't swim. I can float for a short time on my back and I can dog paddle for a very short time (it's tiring). I remember my mom making us go for swim lessons and making up a stupid story as to why I was afraid of water and wouldn't join the others in actually learning to swim. I tried - I used to practice putting my face under water in the tub and once, to try to be like everyone else I jumped into the lake - which was a big mistake and I thought I'd never come up and, of course, I panicked. I thought I would drown once in the ocean because I was trying to be like everyone else and swim out to another shallow spot. Another mistake - getting there was easy - a very short distance. But with the water pushing against you coming back I really thought I was going to end up drowning before ever getting back - felt like I was getting no where. And this was when I was an adult and I would have been too embarrassed to have called for help.
I'm just as bad in the shower. I hold a washrag over my face to wash my hair and IF my face gets wet I have to dry it immediately and from splatters, I have to dry my face before I wash my face with a wet rag. lol
And try being around a bunch of kids with squirt guns. lol
Anyhow - I have tried everything, and it's just one of those things I can not tolerate and it's such a simple thing and common thing for everyone. Oh, and I did teach my kids to swim when they were young and they are all good swimmers and I made it a point to run water over their head so they would be used to getting their faces wet in water. I guess I felt the need to make sure they didn't have to struggle with such a simple thing.
Anyone else hate getting their face wet? Or some other simple thing that everyone else does every day?
 
I prefer my face to be wet usually, as for things that everyone does every day, i could probably fill a few pages quickly if I were to try to list
 
I hate wind. I hate how it feels against me and I hate it throwing my hair around.
It’s windy today and it gave me a headache.
 
You remind me off my mother.
She never put her head in the water and rarely swim and only when she can touch the bottom. And she always hated when I splashed the water near her face.

For me swimming was second nature until I had a panic moment in deep water and also my head hurts in water now.
 
I don't like the feeling of of water splashing or running down my face either, or even worse, cobwebs when I'm walking in the forest. It's horrible! However, I can swim.
 
Not to the extreme as yourself, but hate being wet and dread showering. Have to psych myself up and if I forget, it is too mentally exhausting to do.

I guess my hair is my saving grace, as it gets greasy and that motivates me to wash.

I am the same as you with swimming. I can actually swim on my back, but as soon as school was over finally, so was the torment of going to swimming bars. Although, I do love the smell.

It is a sad fact of life, that we are judged according to our sex.
 
I also hate getting my face sprinkled on. Not that I don't wash it, I do with a rag with no problems. But just the stray sprinkles I really hate. Like when lime builds up in the showerhead and the strays shoot all over the place. Hate the rain. And I don't swim. I don't boat, I hate waterparks. Can't put my head under water no matter what. Even being in up to my chest, it feels like someone is sitting on my chest and it makes me feel both queasy and short of breath.

I love looking at the water, so I'll stick with being on shore with my camera, and maybe a wade with bare feet if the sand is soft and clean.
 
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