• cloudless@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    My personal experience spending time with people with germaphobia:

    • They have no idea where germs actually are or how germs are transmitted. They just do specific things that they assume “clean”, or avoid specific things that they assume “dirty”
    • They share similarities with people with OCD

    Phobias are by definition irrational.

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      It depends on the person really. Mythbusters tested this, and the germophobe was the cleanest / didn’t have anything on them in comparison to the others. Iirc they had some UV dye and then had dinner together? Then shined a light on em.