#I'd avoid whiteneing toothpaste though

[alighted-willow]

I distill the tap water for cooking and drinking because of sensory issues and a matter of local water quality— my town recently had to replace most of our pipes due to led and heavy metals, and my house had to do the same when my nephew's routine, mandated blood tests showed acute led poisoning.

Anyhow! This information is useful and I appreciate it! I shall try getting my hands in fluoride tablets. May I ask how often one ought to be used? My current method of fluoride exposure is to let my toothpaste rest on my teeth for a few extra minutes in the morning and evening.

(And yes, I have chipped my teeth while eating before, once when accidentally biting a fork and another time when I accidentally clicked my teeth against each other. Neither are recent incidents.)

Okay listen I have another disability related thing that’s important!!

If you have any disabilities linked to tooth decay/erosion, through direct cause or secondary symptom, it is vital that you get one or both of the following items: Sensodyne toothpaste and enamel repair mouthwash

This includes health conditions such as acid reflux, diabetes, thyroid conditions, fibromyalgia, chronic pain & mental illnesses such as depression that create poor hygiene routines, sensory issue disorders like autism and ADHD, and any health condition that causes frequent vomiting / increased stomach acid, including eating disorders and migraines.

All of these disabilities will erode the enamel of your teeth, not only opening you up to cavities but making it very easy to chip your teeth from such simple things as biting the wrong way on the tines of a fork. (I’ve chipped my teeth at least 4 times this way).

The toothpaste on the left here (sensodyne pronamel) is gentle on your teeth, won’t cause painful sensations from any extreme mint flavor, and will even protect your gums if they’re sensitive from any of these conditions.

The mouthwash on the right (Crest enamel repair) will, as it says, repair your enamel — which is marvelous, because the technology to repair your enamel at all is relatively very new to society! — but it is most importantly non-alcoholic. Meaning that it works well as a once-a-day rinse without any of the burning sensations of antiseptics that typically discourage people with sensory issues from taking care of their teeth.

I know remembering to do these things every day can feel like a lot when you’re sick and exhausted, but I promise a collective three minutes out of every day is going to save you an incredible amount of pain and money in the future. If your teeth are susceptible enough to rot, you can actually die from infection. And as they say, with how little insurance actually covers dental —

Not brushing your teeth??

In THIS economy???

[tuliptiger]

I would love a breakdown of how it does affect us then. Because I am also with the people who vehemently hate commercials and will actively avoid using products advertised. I am tired of feeling this way and being told it's the opposite, I'm frustrated actually.

These are my honest feelings and I mean no harm to OP or the commenters. I need more than just, "you are affected" though, from a personal, emotional standpoint and as an evidence standpoint.

I don't think I'm the specialist person out there nor do I believe I am immune to propaganda, that isn't what I'm saying at least not intentionally. I need evidence why and HOW I'm not immune though, because these conversations make me feel helpless and like I'm going insane.

If my absolute disdain or my lack of any feeling at all towards a product or brand doesn't make a difference and somehow is exactly what the companies want I really need that spelled out for me man.

The only thing I know is that ads ARE effective when introducing a new product or idea to people where the company needs people to know. But this will only affect the target audience!!! The audience that was only ever going to want the new thing in the first place and that the company wanted. And I guess what I'm saying from a, "commercials don't affect me" point of view is that my target for my attention and money is so incredibly small and nigh I'd argue useless that...for a majority of advertisements yes they dont work on me.

The other thing I can think of working on people who aren't interested in the ad is that it may generate conversation. I had a perfect example of this last night with a TikTok commercial that keeps coming up. It solidified my absolute hatred and refusal to use the app but I was so mad about it I made 2 posts about it. I am acting to lengthen and spread the advertisement's lifetime and reach. I can understand that too.

I don't think ads work on me MOSTLY, I'd argue because I'm poor, but I want to be able to say it's also because I'm putting effort into enjoying what I have and taking a slower pace of life. I'm putting the effort into not buying things and getting creative with the things I do have.

I know that packaging and branding get me, I know that I will choose a toothpaste that fights cavities over whitening teeth. I know that if a commercial advertised something I was actually into I might look it up or even go buy one. And maybe this is a communication issue where I and others aren't stating exactly what we mean. Advertising doesn't advertise things we're into frequently enough or at all that, for the ads we have seen, no they don't work on us because we aren't the target audience.

I don't know what else, from the extent I've mulled things over and the time I've spent contemplating this, that's all I can think of. Is it truly just an issue of "I am immune to propaganda" that bothers people into saying, "you are not immune to propaganda" though? Or is there more??? This response with no further elaboration makes me feel a little disrespected and frustrated.

Edit: After reading the comments, which are kind of driving me insane, is that my argument is for me being unprofitable for advertisements. Which is my understanding of the whole point of ads, which makes me feel like I am immune to them. I am not buying name brand item because it was advertised to me, I may never buy the name brand anything actually. I may buy the item that's from a different brand or I may not buy that item at all ever.

Using an example in the comments, I don't understand how pizzahut advertising pizza to me and me buying a frozen pizza at safeway is related in any way shape or form. It's unprofitable for pizzahut at that point unless the argument is now "big pizza" has "its" hands in everything and just wants me to buy pizza. That makes absolutely no sense to me. Yes pizza is on my brain but pizzahut isn't, did "big pizza" pay for pizzahuts advertisement??? No.

Does seeing the pizzahut commercial make me think "man pizza sounds good haven't had that in awhile" yeah absolutely do I act on that? No or yes but it isn't for pizzahut and often times it isn't even acted on at all. Maybe I will talk to someone about pizzahut because of it and they go buy pizzahut.

Yeah ok sure, indirectly caused profit for pizzahut. Or maybe I don't talk about it at all except in this Tumblr post. And pizzahut died in obscurity in my head forever or I buy a pizzahut 5 years from now. One purchase every 5 years doesn't make a business profitable.

I just need more, I need more information than just "you are not immune to propaganda" and for now I will stop saying I am "immune" and give a little more nuance. My tone in this edited part is absolutely more frustrated and maybe harsher so I do apologize for that. I'm losing it at the arguments in the comments and the more I talk about this the more agitated I feel so I will leave it at this.

You are not immune to ads. Ads are not becoming ineffective due to oversaturation or savvy young people or whatever. Billions of dollars are poured into market research and analytics every year, corporations would know if ads were a waste of money way way before a tiktok comment section and stop spending money on them

By believing yourself to be "too smart" to be affected by advertising you're only making yourself far less mindful of and more susceptible to it. The ads you're exposed to poison your mind - be aware of that so you can combat it, and try to be exposed to as few as possible