Debilitating Clothing Sensitivity

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Basically I've had a severe sensitivity to ALL clothing or contact with anything for all of my life. Since I was really young I remember not being able to wear anything, for if I did I would feel severe pain and a stinging sensation. I feel sick when I put on pants, and often I would throw up when I was younger, or otherwise get sick with very bizarre symptoms. Despite all of this what really REALLY Bothers me is the fact that people find it so humorous of an issue, and I'm often just told I'm spoiled or weak minded. I'll tell you however that this is the ONLY ONLY ONLY damn thing in my life that I've truly had difficulty with, and I've gotten past a lot of other difficult obstacles. So anyone, if you have any fixes or if you can relate please reply. Thanks.

Wow, as someone with only a minor sensitivity to clothing compared to yours, you have my sympathy.
I can pray for you that you will somehow feel better, that's all I can think to do.

Buy a vest and put that on underneath.

It's not the best solution, but sometimes distraction can help. Providing another source of sensory input to distribute some of your attention to might lessen the perceived intensity. That and, as I'd guess you already do, hand-select everything you wear for maximum comfort (or minimum discomfort).

I largely aim to don myself in soft and flexible attire, I avoid a heinous dollop of sensory invasion if I aspire to collude with compassionately dangling soft and springy material, I can tolerate the harsher and less docile compositions every now and then but for the most part I like the more understanding items of clothing so I can maintain a healthy rapport with limb-attachments without spazzing out so to speak

Thanks for all the responses. To answer a few of them the vest seems like an interesting idea, and I usually end up wearing the same thing for weeks ;l

As for the soft and flexible, I agree but at the same time I like something that's heavy and big, so it's not like I'm being pressed and choked on all sides but I'm not rubbing against it either. Where else would I have just typed that haha

Anyways, also for distraction it is one of the main ways I have been able to get through MANY issues that I've run into with this supposed syndrome. Usually by being very involved in something I find that I can abandon my body and just become a mass of information.

Have you tried sensory compression clothes? Although they might not be any good if you don't like being pressed. :/

Humorous? What kind of jerks are you around? I hope you mean acquaintances and not your close family and friends.

Have you tried clothing made of odd materials? You could easily find things made out of leather, but there are also:

Duluth Firehose Work Pants
Teflon apparel
Dickie's Nylon

I was so interested in this discussion that I mentioned it in the car to my husband when we were out running errands earlier. He is autistic himself. He had some suggestions as well and I thought I'd jump back in and add them.

He said that the seams in clothes torment him to no end and that he now mostly buys tactical/extreme sporting clothes because the seams are either located in better positions or minimized. He said he had grown quite old before making this discovery. I do recall that he used to wear his clothes to threads when we were young people and now he doesn't.

He also said that taking something like Ativan or Xanax decreases clothing sensitivity quite a bit. Maybe something to ask a doctor about? It kind of reminded me of when I had braces as an adult and was in constant pain. The only thing that helped was alcohol, and I'm not a drinker. :/ I never thought about going to the doctor for an anxiety medication but now I wish I'd tried it.

What about finding pajamas or onesies with suitable material then wearing 'normal clothes' on top so no one notices? Awkward idea but wanted to throw it out there.

Have you considered joining a nudist colony? You can't live there but perhaps you could go there on the weekends for some outdoor recreation sans clothing.

So first off I read all your suggestions and took them into account, all of them.
Also just thought I would say this because its not just me that deals with it but ONE of the annoying things that no one else has mentioned is pressure on my upper back. Like light pressure. Some shirts are heaver on my upper back cause that's where it is seamed, I know nothing about clothing but that's how I can best describe that sensation.

Hey.

I wear my underwear - knickers and vests inside out on my more sensitive days and that helps as seams are an issue for me. I don't like definite areas of pressure either so waistbands are an issue...

If it is light pressure on your upper back that bugs you, consider weightier materials so that they weigh evenly and not just touch unevenly.

There are companies online that specialise in clothing for hypersensitive individuals and, as someone previously mentioned, there are clothes designed to create pressure and not generate irritation with lightness of touch. Also very soft and seamless.

Does how you look bother you at all because if not, your options are much wider...

I respect the modesty of others, but have thought about a clothing-optional lifestyle, as I have seen it practiced in Northern European forests and on American homesteads. Relatively-plain people were able to do farm work, in the heat of summer, in mines, and on boats. It just wasn't considered formal, as for city business.

It's fringe, but I have learned about "grounding" and related philosophies, watched a skilled, Native American woodwooker, in a very nice house, with western clothes and a dirt floor. He could cover his feet and have a deck, if he wanted to. It's a matter of choice.

I know that it's situational, and can be considered rude, based on the context.

I wonder if one could get custom clothes made with the seams and weighting taken into account? I would think you would just have to read up on the best way to describe what you want and don't want.

Some shirts have something called a "drop shoulder" where the seam is not directly on the shoulders but more toward the front. I'm not sure if this is something that would help (from the seam being moved) or make it worse (from moving the weight). I was looking for a picture of this and I found this awesome site that describes a lot of industry terms for clothes making.

There's a way to make a shirt where you basically make a poncho and then sew up the sides. You could try doing this yourself with a sheet, and experimenting with other ways of wrapping the fabric, and then if something worked you could tell a tailor.

Sports clothing can be more comfortable than clothing made to look nice. I personally wear my socks inside out because my feet/toes are more hypersensitive to touch and the seams drive me nuts.