Repulsed by some visual textures?

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Ever since I was a little kid some textures make me sick and repulsed.

Usually if I am a passanger in a car I will notice a jaggedy rock wall that has a bunch of cracks in it and is very disorginized in the pattern and it makes me sick to look at it.

It's not logical why I despise certain visual textures...but I do.

I look at them and I hate them.

Usually it's oddly shaped natural rock patterns.
But also like the inside of melons with the seeds.
Probably more that aren't coming to mind =/.

Oh I hate that sort of thing. I get like that... there is a commercial that comes on the television sometimes about this foot wash thing and it just makes me sick. I have to shut my eyes or leave the room. Just the site of that foot thing... and then the people actually stick their feet in it. Oh gawd! I cannot handle it. Just bleeeccchhh! It gives me heebies, jeebies, and I need to shake that stuff off and I still feel a bit ill for awhile after it has passed.

Patterns of small uneven holes completely repulse me. I wouldn't say I have trypophobia or whatever, but small clusters of uneven holes just gross me out so bad I become physically ill at the sight of certain images or whatever.

Urg, yes! I can't look at certain textures. I start gagging. Small, uneven hole clusters make me ill.

The more I read the forums the more I realize how pervasive AS has been in my life. There are certain visual textures that make me want to vomit too. I always thought that it was some sort of association I did not understand. Now I wonder if it was really a manifestation of the AS.

It's just so interesting to find that other people have this - patterns of holes!When I was a child exactly the same sort of textures repelled me also. A kind of aesthetic revulsion.

Lattice patterns used to get me as well. Strips of pastry on top of a pie, my grandmother's Sunday hat (which used to make me cry).

I feel sick every time I see/touch clothing labels. I don't know if it's the shiny texture or how it looks but it really grosses me out.

Oh wow. I used to be repulsed by certain visuals/textures, but as of late, I find myself more tolerable of them, if I look or think about them in a different way. That's how I deal with anything repulsive. Just find another way to look at it. Like... those drawings of a cube on a peper, by drawing two squares and connecting the vertices with lines. Can flip it to look like the other face is protruding instead of the first one.

The texture that I remember disliking was plaid. When I was little I cried if I had to wear it. Now I rather enjoy it, though I will not go out of my way to add it to my wardrobe.

hi all. new here. (hmm. at what point am i no longer new here?)

very recently diagnosed and enthusiastically trying to find me way from year 0. lol

patterns. i definitely have a thing about patterns. some good, some bad.

neat, organised patterns. great.
complete chaos and total lack of pattern... great (like a visual equiv of white noise perhaps)
i think pattern wise... if there is a discernable pattern but its gone wrong or has been distorted and is incomplete... that really makes me spin-out.

this happens in other areas too. say.. for example... a cup... on a table... but slightly over th edge of the table. it drives me nuts. its not as if its going to fall. but its unresolvable. its not ON the table, or OFF the table, but ridiculing me with its "jutting out-ness".

if however, everything on the table was in complete disarray.. id find me hilarious. i love chaos, absurdism etc. in art, music, comedy.

oops.. tangent. lol

funnily enough, a recent trip to the DSS (uk government poor box) for a medical assessment.... 3 types of lurid blue chairs. no particular order. horrible grey and red dotted pattern carpet (that i couldnt look at without feeling dizzy), plain sickly painted walls, an over loud buzzer to un-nerve me, a lady breathing loudly, but not in any way regularly, and the building was out of kilter with those around it. all very un-cricket like.

oh, and while im thinking about it...

the 10 x 10 multiplication tables on the walls in school always danced about and kind of... lit up in various ways too. which is fun i guess.

strangely, this fascination with patterns and aversion to some of them... seems strong in a sibling too. grid paper pattern drawings. tonnes of them. so detailed that they form a kind of moire pattern. brilliant.

R