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The skin on my fingers instantly turns into Velcro whenever I touch microfibre.
Not just me then. Although it is dependent upon the quality of the cloth.
Fatty grissle in meat for me.gag
Styrofoam. It's the devil's material.
Fascism.
I absolutely HATE the this decade's fashion trend is to make everything out of woven fabrics. I cannot stand the feeling of weaves on my skin, and it has severely limited the clothing options available to me for the last six years.
Velvet, especially crushed velvet.
Yesss. Makes me gag.
Sticky
Anything that gives people the ouchies
I must be autistic wrongly because all of these are perfectly fine for me.
Idk, last I saw they want to make new categories for different types of us, ig bc there's more data now?
Stuffing for stuffed animals, when I touch it I can barely breathe. I have no idea why.
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Chalk
I hate hate hate hate the little hooks from insect's feet/legs, they hook into your skin but just the very outer layer and it's like it's getting to rip my skin off by making it peels off of the skin itself!!! Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate
Also, paper being eaten in any shape or form. I had to roll my lips over my teeth while I wrote that down it just makes them hurt even from just imagining it, seeing my baby nephew eating it made me have to look away and try to ignore the entire ordeal as much as possible, even people talking about it
I hate to say it but pants.
I know they matter. I wear them. But man I can't stand it sometimes
I'm with you. Jeans are the worst for me. They're heavy and stiff, and depending on how intense my sensitization is that day, the waistband can feel like anything from rough cardboard to sandpaper against my skin. Adding a belt makes it even worse.
I'm grateful my employer lets me wear loose-fitting athletic pants in the office. A coworker and I were talking about it recently, and he couldn't understand why I dislike jeans because they're his favorite pants. Clothing that feels perfectly comfortable to most people usually feels restrictive, heavy, and abrasive to me. If robes were culturally acceptable as everyday wear in the west, I'd wear them constantly.
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Velvet, corduroy, some microfleece, crushed velvet, suede
I can feel the fiber in my fingerprints and it wigs me out.
Neurodiversity is so weird. I have very string texture requirements, but they're apparently the opposite of yours. The feeling of corduroy grooves in harmony with my fingerprint grooves is recently satisfying to me. And velvet -- omg heaven is literally made of velvet.
My issues are with inconstancy -- a space of smooth fabric is ruined if there's a tiny bit of grit somewhere. Crumbs in the bed? I'll sleep on the couch. (Interestingly, both velvet and corduroy can obscure such inconsistencies, maybe that's why I like them?)
Suede is the only one of those I like.
Wet bread as a texture can make me puke, even the thought of it makes me queasy. Also I hate socks, hate how they grip, hate how they get wet, hate them all around. I know there are few other textures I recoil from, but I encounter them so rarely that I can't remember what they are associated with off the top of my head.
I just talked about this topic with a few friends and family members and they all cringed in response. Every. Single. One.
If you're writing with a wooden pencil, the graphite snaps out, and the wood of the pencil drags across the paper.
Just writing this made my skin crawl.
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The sound of a permanent marker used on cardboard makes my teeth itch. I know it’s not a texture but I can sure feel it.
Same! It’s lessened over the years, but there’s still something about that sound that makes my teeth itch. The absolute worst were those huge permanent markers with metal bodies that smelled like chemical warfare.
smelled like chemical warfare
😂💜
Yea, same. It's the granularity of the micro-roughness in both materials that does it for me. Same as brushed metal
Finely brushed metal. I am fine with silverware on ceramic but please, for the love of Cthulhu, no brushed metal
Raw wood. Whenever I see someone put a wooden spoon in their mouth I want to scream. I have to keep the wrapper around popsicle sticks.
Yessss. Also wood floors. I'm pretty sure preferring laminate over wood puts me in a minority of people.
I highly prefer wood floors, so long as it is sealed and finished wood, but I’ve worked as a handyman for many years and have developed a deep and personal hatred for all forms of laminate flooring.
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