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?

    • iamnotacat@lemm.ee
      17·
      1 year ago

      A fellow denizen of r/legaladvice, I see… I miss the CO detector jokes (though it also served as a pretty damn effective PSA, which was cool) and tree law / SovCit jokes…

      And shitty MS Paint diagrams.

      • httpjames@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        1 year ago

        If you’re in a detached house, I suppose not. But if you’re in a townhouse or apartment, are you sure your neighbours are 100% gas free too?

        • Scrollone@feddit.it
          8·
          1 year ago

          Yes, here in Italy the whole building is either connected to the gas grid or not.

          Moreover, they add a very strong garlic-smelling additive to gas, so you can smell it from far away if there’s a leak.

          There must be something different because I’ve never see a gas detector in Italy (unlike fire detectors, which are everywhere)

        • iamnotacat@lemm.ee
          10·
          1 year ago

          IIRC the OP had what sounded a lot like paranoid delusions, and sought reddit’s help - someobody figured out there was a CO leak and the guy was stable and mentally healthy except for the CO…

          Alternative was him walking into a police station in an altered state trying to report people doing arguably crazy sounding things to him, which would have ended very poorly in many places.