Sensitivity to Water

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I was afraid of taking warm baths, after I saw one of those "shock" PSA ads. It was where they had a mother taking a child to the bath, and she "left her daughter in the tub, only for a minute", then they had the child turn the hot water wheel on. They used a sound effect of a child screaming bloody murder, and had alot of smoke coming up from the tub. Then they showed the child in the burn unit of the hospital. Not like burned, but wrapped in bandages and in a crib.

I don't really see that many graphically shock PSA ads these days, I mean..there's getting the point across to someone, but geesh! The last one I can remember was the one for a man with Diabetes. He said his doctor told him if he didn't control his Diabetes through insulin, he'd end up blind. Then he pulls out that stick the blind use, to find their way around. It's like you see the stick and are like,

In childhood (I was dx'd only as an adult) my mother had to threaten me with the belt to make me get in bathtub. I hated it, and washing hair was even worse-stung my eyes. Loved to swim (and once submerged/immersed in water I'm comfortable) but have hangups about "things" in the water-still can only tolerate swimming in a pool.
Now have a shower (instead of tub), which is preferable, but I still chronically procrastinate. The transition is the horrible part, how cold & prickly I feel getting in or out.

Handwashing-I do it often now but hardly ever when I was a kid. It's so annoying that of course one washes hands AFTER peeing yet sometimes one doesn't need to go pee UNTIL one's finished handwashing. I relate it to how young animals are raised (stay with me here) by their parents-learned this from show about rescued creatures. Raccoons, for example, lick their babies' parts, purpose is to stimulate excretion. Without the parent animal doing that, human caregivers hold baby raccoons' bottoms in sink with water & pour or dab water over the baby's parts-which serves same function. Without this being done somehow (training bodily process through aided practice), the bowels of the creature become impacted & it will die. Disgusting (and sad, bc. I like animals) yet true-if show I saw is to be believed & if I'm understanding it correctly. So I figure it makes sense at a primal level, to be triggered into needing to pee just by handwashing. Also, taking a shower sometimes makes me have to "go to the bathroom", which annoys me bc. I just spent half hour getting thoroughly clean. I figure it's a vestigial reflex and varies among individual members of our species.