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Styrofoam. It’s the devil’s material.
Sticky
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
Those types of soft or semi-hard foods with hard seeds inside, like pickles, zucchini or mountain cucumbers/maroon gherkins/spiny cucumbers/West Indian gherkin/bur gherkins/bur cucumbers/gooseberry gourds/wild gerkins/whatever they call them where they live (I’m talking about Cucumis anguria).
I HATE the srnsation of the seeds within those vegetables.
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.
Gavin?
I know this name but I can’t place it. I’m interested in the correlation either way, if you wouldn’t mind enlightening me.
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?)
Paper tissies, ah I got a chill and I am so miserable right now!
I can relate to that way too much
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.
Suspenders helped me a lot. I can still to looser ones and no tightness on my stomach.
I’d love robs being cool too!
Fascism.
Stuffing for stuffed animals, when I touch it I can barely breathe. I have no idea why.
Also satin material.
Cotton T-shirts
Finely brushed metal. I am fine with silverware on ceramic but please, for the love of Cthulhu, no brushed metal
As a non-neurodivergent person with no texture issues, I find this subject fascinating. I find many of the textures listed here to be interesting, but not anxiety-inducing or anything like that. What makes your reaction to it so much different than mine? It’s so interesting that the brain would react so differently.
People taste things differently, smell things differently, etc., so why not react differently to textures?
Ive a similar perspective and I live with multiple neurodivergent people in my house. It seems like a visceral reaction that doesn’t even make it to the brain. Just like your hand jerks back if you touch something hot, they immediately gag or cough or itch or whatever.
They ate or touched one thing one time, decided they didn’t like it, and now their limbic system protects them from anything similar to it.
It seems to be mostly food and clothing. I can’t tell the difference between these two cotton shirts but they will have a long conversation about how one in great and the other is horrible.
Cooked raisins.
Anything that squeaks. Squeaking hair when its clean, green beans that aren’t cooked enough.
Are you saying green beans squeak, or are undercooked green beans a separate thing? Because I would argue that disliking undercooked green beans isn’t a neurodivergent thing.
I love green beans, but they squeak on my teeth if they are steamed to the proper level. I need mine over cooked until they are soft enough to no longer squeak, or raw.
I can’t stand crunchy peanut butter for the same reason.
