Touch sensory issues - what bugs you the MOST?

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- Socks
- Tight t-shirts/shirts/jumpers
- Newspapers (not the actual paper, but the ink or whatever it's called)
- Sometimes I can't stand being touched by anyone
- Certain types of porcelain
- Cutlery against teeth

Etc.

... clothing tags (i have a collection of the ones i have cut out. someday i will make a quilt)
... too-smooth skin (don't like to shave my hair off as it takes the peach fuzz off too and it feels naked)
... microfibre cloths (they get snagged on my fingertips)

Clothing tags
Wool
Heavy fabrics (too hot)
Any clothes that are too tight

Usually tall grass it makes my skin real itchy and sometimes I break out in a rash and super dry things!!

Above all else - my sons crying sets me off. I can stand it for a couple of minutes, but than I just lose my mind. I've learned to keep hearing protection handy because that helps me to stand it longer. I've also learned exactly what he needs and how to get it to him as quickly as possible so that he settles down faster.

I don't mind the sock threads as much as when a hair gets stuck in my sock around my toe or something. I hate that!! I also hate Styrofoam and when someone scratches something dry like a wall with flat paint. When my husband tries to "lightly caress" me it makes me itchy lol. Oh, and sand or dirt in my sandals is also pretty horrible.

Nobody like it, but I absolutely HATE styrofoam! Just a light touch of it goes right through me. In fact, I can practically feel it right now even though there is none around me. I also don't like shirt tags and have ruined a number of shirts by ripping them while instinctively ripping the tags off. I also have to use a plastic plate when using a knife because I can't stand the feeling of metal against glass.

My brother also likes to touch, poke, punch, etc and that drives me insane! Thankfully he's 3000km away! Even during his last visit he was constantly touching me on the spine and shoulder although I repeatedly told him to knock it off.

weird smelling food, a lot of people around.

These. I hate powdery things and didn't know it was a sensory thing until I read this. I hate it. I've only gotta dust my TV unit and I feel absolutely horrible afterwards

I hate hot weather and I hate unwanted noise. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head but I know there are others.

I'm the same way. I enjoy deep pressure, but any form of touch involving skin-to-skin contact is agonizing.

In regards to heat, my house feels like a morgue due to my inability to regulate my body temperature. I cannot sleep if it's not cold.

Being touched number one by far.
Clothing tags are also really bad.

Until I was about 18 I couldn't wear anything except jogging pants and loose t-shirts.
Especially the harsh, rugged and snug feeling of jeans was a hellish experience.

My tactile sensory issues are the most severe, and I have too many to name them all. So, I will just say the tactile sensory issue that truly is the most intolerable- being wet. Particularly having my face get wet or having to walk around in wet clothes. Water rides at amusement parks pretty much are one of the most unpleasant experiences I can undergo.

Edit: If I were to pick a #2 worst tactile sensory issue, I think it would have to be tight pants/pants with zippers. I have never worn a pair of pants with a zipper in my life. I rely on pants with elastic waistbands.

Same. I've also found that wool flares my eczema up. I was once given a pair of walking socks, which were wool. They were awful.

I'm am happy to hear that someone else feels this way. My problem is more pants than shirts. Clothes that *fit* make me incredibly uncomfortable. Once in class I became so focused on how my pants were so tight I wanted to cry (I was 12). Now I try not to think about how my pants get when I sit down (they ride up over my belly button!) and other things. I found that some petite jeans made in the eighties are especially nice feeling to me. But they are so old! I don't want them to wear out.

I am not so picky anymore but I used to despise how certain foods felt in my mouth. I still don't like baked potato. How anyone stands that mushyness in their mouth is beyond me.

But the feeling that I will hate for the rest of my life, arg I don't know the name of the fabric, but its used on cheep couches. Sometimes jeans have the same effect on me if they are really worn out. I can sit on these horrible couches if I don't move, but my finger scraping against it (a worse crime if its the nail) can only be fixed by instantly putting the offending finger in the mouth and bitting down on the nail. The feeling of the fabric and the sound are both really awful. If someone does this I ask them not to it and I scrunch myself up in distaste. >.<

Clothing tags for me as well, usually I end up cutting them out as soon as I get something new. I wonder if the person who came up with tagless clothing was aspie, as this seems to be a common trait.

Wool against my skin.

Nickel- I'm actually allergic to that metal, so I can't really wear silver jewelry, or earrings that aren't marked as hypo-allergenic.

This, and there are certain areas of my skin where even a light touch feels like sandpaper on sunburn. And clothing tags and fallen-out hairs. And I don't wear socks unless it's freezing out. And I can't stand anything hat-like on my head.

Greasy food.

When a sock thread gets caught on my toe.

I don't really have too many issues as far as tactile.