[Poll] Check One

[thefourthvine]

Internets! I am still compiling the Woobie Poll of Dooooooooom, but in the meantime, here is a PRESSING QUESTION that came up today while I was (yay!) visiting with norah. Plus some other pressing questions, because why have one forced choice when you can have five?

So. For the rest of your life, you can only have one of each of the following pairs. Which will it be? Which is the ONLY ONE YOU CAN HAVE FOREVER? (If you already live without one or more of these, then obviously your choice is easier. Like, I will have no trouble at all with question three, but question one might kill me.)

I am also taking suggestions for future horrible forced choices. I would like to find the hardest forced choice in all the land. (That isn't, you know, of great weight or import. No Sophie's Choices.)

Poll #2389 Choose Wisely

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You can only have one of these for the rest of your life. Which? Choose wisely:

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Onions
234 (37.1%)

Garlic
397 (62.9%)

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Fat
405 (64.3%)

Sugar
225 (35.7%)

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Coffee
159 (25.2%)

Chocolate
473 (74.8%)

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Caffeine
426 (68.3%)

Alcohol
198 (31.7%)

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Sex (including with partner(s) and with yourself, etc.)
427 (68.4%)

Sweets (including all desserts, candy, etc.)
197 (31.6%)

Comments

[dhara]

I should have been more careful with my phrasing - it was supposed to be cheerful and silly, but instead sounds uncomfortably dismissive about other people's choices/circumstances which influence such choices! Which I did not intend, and I apologize for the wordfail on my part.

also you bring up an interesting point. what if the choice was cuddles vs [whatever]? or touching (other people) vs [whatever]? I am a cuddle-fiend, and would find it intolerable within the week...but for the longterm, given that babies who don't experience enough touch have 'failure to thrive,' what would happen to adults?

[recessional]

Depends on the adults, I would suppose - I'm also ASD, so in my normal day-to-day life I, um, avoid physical contact as much as possible. I reserve cuddles mostly because when I'm very emotionally close to someone, that aversion goes away - I'm single right now, but if I were to be in love again I would be the biggest cuddle-fiend for my partner you've ever SEEN. And as it stands right now, with my family, including my high-functioning-autistic sibling and my other younger sister, I am pretty tactile as it is.

But I think for NT people the tactile thing is a much bigger deal.