Soft touch - Certain materials - Rubbing skin

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I may laugh when someone tickles me, but i hate it with a passion.

I used to pretend it didn't bother me, but that never lasted long. I had a boyfriend that would constantly tickle me. He hated being touched too so it was like we were both torturing each other.

Back to the original post I hate the feeling of such materials. My boyfriend that I mentioned above would annoy me with his cold hands and would even place a freezing cold mobile phone on my skin.
And I still can't bring myself to wear a few of my clothes because of how the material feels.

I'm the same when it comes to certain clothes.

When I was young my mum thought I was allergic to the washing powder, and then when we ruled that out though I was allergic to certain materials.

But the fact is all clothes no matter the material seem to make me feel uncomfortable, heck even my skin feels uncomfortable.

Sometime it seems like I was an experiment and someone stuffed me into this skin shell and half hassedly tied my nerves into so I constantly have to feel through it but everything feels wrong.

gee, i always relate to the sensory integration dysfunction threads. I am so fussy with all that kind of thing. I cannot sleep with anyone. I need a pillow to be cool also. i hate being touched and get a rise of rage and nausea in me when someone does. It is mainly unexpected touch with me. Anyone coming at me when i am unable to control it or unprepared for it. Although there is one exception and that is with my son. (i am so glad i can cope with hugs fromhim, although he knows I CANNOT STAND ANY touching around my face or head or hair. ugh!)

i have chilli on all my food.
I have a poor sense of taste but a heightened smell which is really hard sometimes and overhwelming.
NOise can jsut e unbearable sometimes and i am thrown into a meltdown because i sometimes cannot filter out sound and it all comes at me and overwhelms me.

there is definitely mild synaesthesia in me.
water soothes me unbelievably.


On bad days - and this morning was one of those - i go back to bed for a while and just rest. Sometimes my sensory issues get worse when i am tired or exhausted from too much people contact.

I thought I was allergic to washing powder too.
I can relate to what you said about your skin too. Different areas of my body feel really uncomfortable, even if I had a shower.

My all-time worst fabric is the thin, stretchy nylon ordinary women's stockings are made from. I can't even touch them, let alone wear them. If I even look at them for too long I start imaging what the fabric feels like in my mind and feel sick.

I can't put on rubber gloves, they are just so eeeew.

I once got my hands badly burned with industrial oven cleaner. I knew it was acidic and corrosive with skin but I still couldn't make myself put on the gloves.

I hate gloves too, fortunatly, I can bare it just enough to wear them, although I hate it, especially if my hands are wet and stick to the gloves as I put them on. I also hate having wet hands, unless my entire body is going to be wet.... And wet hair is the worst, why did I have to like having long hair so much? I also can't stand having water on my nose..... ever..... its just that awfull sensation of having a drop of water that wants to fall, but isnt falling soon enough... Fortunatly, I've learned to somewhat avoid getting my nose wet when I shower... although sometimes it can't be avoided.

I only wear gloves when I absolutely have to, if I'm outside in the freezing cold, etc. I can tolerate them then.

But, if I am indoors and warm, I get this weird sensation that my hands and lower arms aren't there when I wear gloves. I get a total disconnection from my hands and it's kinda scary. Especially if it's those thin rubber gloves.

I have a lot of sensory problems so I guess it has to do with that. Clothes are a constant struggle with me. I'll find something that works one day and the next drives me crazy. Literally keeps me from being able to focus on anything.

I go through periods where my pillow has to be cold. This is not a problem anymore b/c husband likes the house cold.

I rub my legs together and against the blanket in bed and kick in my sleep. Kicking is an escalation of my leg-rubbing urge. People can't sleep with me in the same bed on account of this (and snoring). I'm a hard sleeper and don't know I'm doing this.

I'm a constant stimmer... I have a variety of stims I do in a variety of situations (sitting, standing, typing, hands-free).

I literally chew on my knuckles and hands when I'm anxiously problem-solving. My hands are torn up and scarred.

I like my skin being touched and stroked, and I touch myself (I have a stim where I stroke my skin lightly), I love all kinds of touch from someone I'm attracted to/love

I can't stand being touched or having my personal space or boundaries invaded by someone I'm not attracted to/love -- fills me with wild fury & I will meltdown if I can't put a stop to their violations of my space/boundaries.

One day, I was coming out of a concert with a male roommate, cutting across the grass outside of the coliseum in the dark, toward the parking lot. He started goofing around physically and pulled me down unexpectedly and we feel to the grass side by side. Without any real thought forming in my head I did a backhanded karate chop against his Adam's apple, and he was a little damaged for a while. It just happened instantly as if I were a cat or something. I just had to put distance between him and me at any cost, no rational thought.

I think I'm synesthetic where I have crossover between analytic thought and tactile sensation cognitive primitives. I believe my systemizing is a kind of "stimming" for that reason. I.e. I generate stimming of myself sensually, in my head, when I am systemizing. I can almost go into a trance when I am thinking about my systems, like a deep meditation full of sensation and movement, but all by thinking. My husband says I get lost inside myself.

I both love and hate the feel of cold metal. Also my most commonm stim is tapping, although eating is a pretty powerful one. Fortunatly, I have replaced the eating stim with having a glass of water always beside me... and by not having things that are premade available to me, so if I am stimming, I have to do something else. I also play with my hair a hell of a lot. For other touch things I can't stand, try having your hands just a little grimy or dusty or wet or anything other than perfectly clean..... Its horrible and makes me want to skin my hands to get rid of the feeling, although I just end up washing them and keeping them very clean because of it.... I hate handling something my 5 yold bro has handled just because he doesn't keep his hands very clean, and as I'm typing this I am trying to figure out how to best clean my hands without getting my sweater wet..... my other thing I really hate, wet clothes, even if slightly wet.