Repulsed by patterns

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I've noticed that looking at certian patterns make my skin feel like it is crawling and sometimes I litteraly feel like I am going to vomit from looking at certian patterns.

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When they show the people supposedly morphing into lizards, the patterns make me feel sick. Espicaly at 3:16 in the first video and 8:35 in the second one when Jenna Bush supposedly turns into a lizard via a checkerboard apearing on her face. It's not the subject of the videos that repulses me, but the pattern on the people's faces. Even as a kid, I would get physicaly sick just from looking at certian patterns. Is this common to autism?

There's a phobia of patterns, I forgot what it's called.

Thanks to Bun, I just did an internet search, and this came up:

trypophobia

http://www.popsci.com/trypophobia

ps: researching is one of my "special interests" and it bothers me when I can't find an answer to something.

Although I don't have your extreme reaction, I am repulsed by some patterns. I also have a tendency to look at surfaces with any kind of markings on them to see if I can see shapes or patterns, in the markings. This includes wall paper, floor tiles and linolium, counter tops, wood grained panelling, etc. I realize that some of these already have shapes and patterns deliberately put on them, but I look for additional shapes and patterns within the intended ones.

I don't know what this signifies. Remember, we on the spectrum are all:

A Different Drummer

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,

Perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears,

However measured or far away.

--Henry David Thoreau

I think of trypophobia as an aversion to clusters and patterns as being more regular.
The difference between this


and this

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

One I find quite pleasing, the other I find repulsive.

I don't like looking at certain fractals, I just start to feel kind of weird.

my late mother absolutely could not stand seeing massed little objects swarming together- massive flocks of bird in the sky or swarms of bees in a nest of piles of ants in a hill, they all made her turn away and clomp off in disgust. as for me, the only things i had a hard time looking at, were condylomas and jagged lacerations, which was unfortunate for me because i worked in a hospital.

I have not noticed patterns bothering me but ever since I was a child, I would pick out faces in things like we had real wood paneling. It had lots of real knots in it and grain etc. I could spend long periods of time, seeing faces, like cartoon faces. Like where there are 2 knots for eyes and a curves line under it for a mouth.

One thing that really bothered me as a kid and I did not know why but I knew it bothered me and made me feel aweful was there was a very large grociery store that had yellow walls. I hated going there because of those yellow walls. I did not know about autism or Asperger's but knew this made me feel aweful.

When I was a teenage one time someone I knew was talking about doing some kind of hallucinogen with their friends and how they then saw faces in the walls. I didn't say anything but I remember thinking I could see them right then and I wasn't even on anything.

the patterns that are in spirals and designed to make you feel dizzy make me nauseous.

Has anyone else had problems not being able to see those hidden 3-d puzzles?