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Belfast, my NT brother has done that. I never even knew until he was in his 20's when he started dating a girl that did the same thing.

The picking or the tissue-pressing ? Sorry to be gross, but how else can I explain ?

Tissue-pressing (putting very tip of finger in nostril, while it's covered with the tissue-and edges of tissue stay outside the nose) works very well. Esp. for when I've a hair someplace up in there that's irritating me-I'll find it on the tissue & feel relief at not having to chase it around. Helps with when one gets stuff like dryer lint, dust, (or in my case, smoke) in there coating one's nasal passages. If need be-say my nostrils are dry & ouchy (from a cold & excessive tissue use)-then I moisten (with saliva-what do I care, it's all my own body-or tap water) the tissue before use, then it's more soothing & less irritating (still gets the gunk out).

the tissue pressing.

Sometimes it helps to plug one nostril by pushing the side in and blowing, by exhaling forcefully. Breath out really hard.

It just struck me(not literally)that this should go on the ...You know your an aspie if....board

"You know your an aspie if you spend time discussing the best techniques of blowing your nose...and your over 6 year old"

when i posted this i didn't really know if it was an aspie issue or not but i didn't know what else to do, but this was one of the funniest threads and if nothing else comes of it i have gotten a good laugh out of it.
the things that parents discuss

And here I thought I was the only one with a 8 yr old that couldn't blow his nose.

I'll give this method a try tho:

I never blew my nose until I went to desert areas (Death Valley, CA, Iraq, etc) for the military...

Now I just do snot rockets... holding one nostril shut, blowing, aiming the excretion at the ground. I'd blow/wipe my nose, but its not always easy to find tissue in Iraq, the concept of a hankerchief is disgusting.

Luckily here in Iraq, dust gets in your nose creating hard boogers, so we dont really have the runny nose thing going on here... If the offending material won't snot rocket out... I pick