Do you have any visual texture aversions?

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Did you or do you now have texture aversions...things that struck the fear of god in you when you were exposed to them?

As a child, I was INTENSELY afraid of the visual texture of wood. I would see faces in them and the faces would keep popping out at me. The grains made the most scary looking faces. It was so bad that I wouldn't sleep at night a lot. The floors in my room were wood floors. The door to my room was also wood. Even though the door was painted white, I could still see the texture and still see the faces in the wood.

I was just sitting out on my deck and I tried to look for those faces but I don't see them anymore. I just see wood now.

My daughter, who is on the spectrum and definitely has a number of visual sensitivities, is deathly afraid of red brick buildings. She's 3 and still pretty much non-verbal (well, more accurately, she's pre-verbal -- we have a few words but mostly still consonant babbling) so I don't know what she sees yet.

I never told anyone about the faces I saw in the wood. I just thought of them now when I was looking at my wooden deck...but my brain doesn't process the wood grain as faces anymore.

I can't stand the effect of bright floral patterns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9yZxZSBeM8

i hated this bbc advert made up of floating heads. It wasn't the fact that they were disembodied floating heads but the "texture". have the same feeling about certain fabrics, it's hard to explain exactly what i mean.

I see faces and shapes in things as well, but I find them rather interesting and not frightening and when I was little I loved staring at things to see stuff like that - always wondered why I do this though.

I also would find faces/patterns in stuff, but I've never been afraid or averted to a texture of a visual.

myself, i often see people's faces in clockfaces, specifically the juxtoposition of the hour/minute/second hands. for example, 2:47 would be one person but 7:52 would be somebody else entirely.
but my late mother, she would be repulsed by images with masses of small objects swarming together, like numerous bees moving about in a hive or hundreds of birds flocking in flight, or massive schools of fish swimming together in the water. the sight of hundreds of bubbles of condensated water accumulated on the inside of a lid over a pot of boiling water would make her break out in goosepimples.

the texture of a rock wallson the freeway (not barrier but actual earth made rock walls..we possibly cut) staring at them would make me angry and grossed out at the same time...not so much now though I do sometimes get repulsed by them.