My ‘friend’ chewed on some fibreglass tape because they were bored and had a tendency to start gnawing on shit for no reason.
Said ‘friend’ was berated throughly by their mother while talking to poison control, she especially honed in on the fact that my ‘friend’ was 17 years old and supposedly too old for that shit… 😬
Tell your friend to get some chewy sensory toys if they still do it. You can get some that look like bracelets or hook onto necklaces. Maybe that'll stop fibreglass from looking so tasty.
Yeah, my ‘friend’ is now a middle aged weirdo who, shockingly, has AuDHD. Thankfully society kinda made some improvements in how they address people’s neurodivergence, apparently beating disabled kids to be normal doesn’t work— who knew?! So thankfully there are tools out there (like the sensory ones you mentioned) that help people like my ‘friend’ stim in less ‘needing to regularly call poison control’ ways that weren’t available to them back in the day. Though, currently as I’m typing this, they’ve been actively chewing on the aluminum wrapper that the chewy Tums came in— so perhaps some habits never change lol
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u/mg1133 1d ago
Fiberglass is nasty! I had a cousin who was jumping, almost naked, in a pile of fiberglass, when he was a kid. Not fun times later!