Asiri Comedy Shares His Bedwetting Story To Warn Parents Not to Stigmatize Their Kids
Famous Instagram comedian, Osundare Damilare, popularly known as Asiri Comedy, has finally revealed how his parents stigmatized him while growing up. He disclosed that this was because he was bed-wetting till he got into Senior Secondary School 3 (SSS 3).
According to an interview he granted Punch, he disclosed that playing pranks in his dream contributed to his bed-wetting.
The Microbiology graduate who would always jokingly refer to his discipline as, ‘Micro-comedy’ further revealed that he usually bed-wet around 1am, when he was meant to get up and use the toilet.
On how his parents tried to curb this bad habit, the young publisher explained that his grand-mom once gave him herbal medicine to drink, thinking it would stop him from bed-wetting but unfortunately, that night, he urinated on his bed, extraordinarily.
Asiri used the opportunity to send a special warning to parents who have children who bed-wet not to stigmatize them.
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“Growing up, my parents were teachers; my mother was a talented geographer. She used to calculate my walking distance from home to school. I didn’t have the luxury of playing street football; I only used to watch it from the window.
The only time I used to go out was on Sundays and it was to church. However, there was a day I wet my sister’s report card, which she had put on the couch. I had slept on it. At that point, I had issues with bed-wetting to the extent that they nicknamed me ‘Tomiwa.’
I stopped bed-wetting in SS3. At the time, it was fun because it was part of my pranks. I just knew that when it was about 1 am, I must go and pee but I would not do it.
My parents were bothered at a point and my grandma once came and brought something for me to drink and instructed that once I drank it, I should not go outside again, but that day, I gave them double portion of bed-wetting.”
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The comedian further advised parents not to stigmatize their children but to play a vital role in helping them curb this habit.
“Basically, if it is a boy that has this problem, they should leave him alone. It is considered to be a medical problem but it gets to an age before it is termed as that as it could be a form of mannerism by the child.
For instance, creative people tend to play pranks a lot which was the case for me. As for me, I used to imagine a scenario whereby my friends and I would go to play football and when we were returning in groups, there would be that one person in the gang that would say I want to pee, by resonance, I would also pee in reality.
If you have a boy with this condition, don’t rub it in his face or stigmatize him, instead help him through it by waking him up at intervals in the night.
Don’t stigmatize; if you do that, he will have low self-esteem and by the time he stops bed-wetting, the low self-esteem would still be there. Try your best to regulate it and it will resolve 90 per cent of the cases involved.”