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Hi Guys,
Maybe I'm being totally random, but this is something I find really interesting. I've heard that I'm not the only blind person who has an issue putting toothpaste on a toothbrush. I've perfected a way to do it though. What I do is I squirt a glob onto my finger so I can tell how big it is, and then I put it on my tongue (sounds gross, but I don't move it, I just put it in my mouth and let it sit while I grab my brush). Then I kind of put it on the brush lol. I thought i was the only one to do this, but then I heard about blindies doing it! And I heard that lots of them have the same sort of issue, but solve it in different ways. When I went to a little tech camp for the blind, an over night thing, and I went to brush my teeth, there was toothpaste all over the counter! It was gross! And I figured this out, of course, by accidentally touching it, ewwe. Anyway yeah. I guess not all methods are foolproof. But, for me, it's hard to squeeze toothpaste with one hand, hold the toothbrush in the other and not be able to see if the paste is landing on the brush, or how much you've squeezed out. Toothpaste tubes are very temperamental in that sometimes you squeeze hard and nothing comes out, and sometimes you squeeze gently and a huge mountain comes barreling out. So yeah. I think I've written enough. Curious to hear what the rest of you have to say on the subject?
Caitlin
Once I had a sort of home-helping-do-stuff-around guy come and he told me to put my fingers on either side of the brush while squeezing the toothpaste and that sort of works. I used to squeeze the stuff all over the sink.
James
Hmmm that sounds like a good idea! I'll have to try it...
Caitlin
Hey, I tried this, and it worked a treat! Thanks a lot!
Caitlin
I have an issue as well. I just squirt a glob in my mouth then I put the brush in my mouth and go from there. I know it's not the correct way but hey it works. No one is around anyways when I brush my teeth so I don't care.
Troy
I just do the same thing. I just take the tub and flip it around. Then, try to put it a half of an inch above the teethbrush and put two fingers, each in one diferent side. I remember pressing it too hard and a really huge montain came out and aaaaah! I just got my t-shirt full of it! also, just a comment, I saw a salty toothpaste. Yes, sound groose, nasty, but its good for an infflamation in your teeth and it kind of helps cleaning better. But why should it be salt? i mean eww. I could take a taste of it. Yuck! anyway my aunt from Japan has her own ways, so...
Salty toothpaste? Interesting. I get cuts on my gums and inner lips all the time from braces, ugh. Plus, my gums are swollen now for some odd reason, I think braces too long there? Anyway, maybe I should try that. My ortho recommended some thing called Gel something, but we haven't gotten it yet.
Caitlin
P.S. I used to do that mouth thing, putting the toothpaste in my mouth directly from the tube, until my sister saw and told my mom and they told me it was disgustingly unhygenic, even though it was my own tube lol!