Can you tickle yourself?

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(Sorry in advance if my extremely specific poll options overloaded anyone...)

I've heard that most people can't tickle themselves, a notable exception being schizophrenics. I know that a lot of schizophrenics have similar sensory issues to autistics, so I was wondering if self-ticking ability is actually a sensory processing thing rather than a schizophrenic thing.

I'm not schizophrenic, and I definitely can tickle myself, although not everywhere. It's also not as agonizing as when other people tickle me, but it's pretty close on the bottoms of my feet. (I'm extremely, painfully ticklish to the point that I've threatened violence to people who wouldn't stop tickling me... )

So, who else can, and what's your diagnosis/diagnoses?

I can tickle myself on my knees.

I can tickle myself, but not as well as other people. If other people tickle me I laugh uncontrollably, when I tickle myself it's a very subtle feeling.

I can tickle myself on the soles of my feet.

Depends what you mean by "tickle yourself". I voted "no", because I can get a mild ticklish feeling if I touch myself in a certain way, but it's nowhere near enough to actually make me crack up laughing, as I do when others tickle me (which isn't often, thankfully!)

No I can't tickle myself, nor enjoy a massage on myself like I can when somebody else is doing it.

I'm not the least bit ticklish. when i was little i reacted violently when anyone tried....don't like the feeling at all. i do like getting neck and shoulder massage though....but can't get the same feeling trying on myself

The feeling I get when I tickle the soles of my feet or my armpits is nothing like when someone else does it.

only on the soles of my feet, and it hardly has any effect, compared to when it's done by other people.
i scream when i get surprise tickled...i don't really enjoy it. i also don't enjoy most massages either.

I cannot tickle myself, and though it makes me laugh, I hate being tickled. When I was a little girl, my siblings would tickle me no matter how much I begged them not to. One time, they were tickling me and I made myself Throw up, and it got on them. They were super pissed but they did not know it was deliberate. They stopped tickling me because They were afraid I would puke on them again. And...fifty years later...I still would.

I promise I won't tickle you, Vicky!

But you do tickle my fancy

Yes, I can tickle myself. ASD. (no schizophrenia)

Thats impossible.

No one can tickle themselves. Thats what Ive always read. And its what I experience. Just now rubbed my index finger along the bottom of my feet, and I do get an unnerving tickle-like sensation. But I dont laugh.

In fact I even had my own theory: that if your body recieves a sensation signal from both the tickling finger, and from the target tickle area at the same time it cancels out the tickle response. So in my theory you could tickle yourself only if you dipped your finger into somekind of topical anesthesia before you ticklyed yourself with that numbed finger. Never tried it though.

But if one third of you all say that you can tickle yourselves to the point of laughter then- what can I say? Its a paradigm shift!

I can tickle myself, but only in one specific way: but touching the tip my tongue to the roof of my mouth.

This produces and extreme, cascading sensory response just like being tickled intensely by someone else. After I test it to see if it still works, as I did just now, the whole area is sensitized and the feeling is quite unpleasant. Non-schizophrenic ASD.