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Can you tickle yourself?

AuTriker

My feet are so hypersensitive it is unbearably ticklish even when I wash them myself, nobody else is allowed to touch them. But this podcast says most people can't tickle themselves apart from people who might be prone to psychosis because they struggle to tell if it is them doing it or someone else kind of, don't think I put that well, apologies. But I am fully aware it is me touching my feet, they are just so horribly hypersensitive. I wondered if any of you can tickle yourselves or not?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0THGoXBz18AioDuMKdv9MC?si=A66PjnqKTLmHA-lvwJDGiA

I absolutely hate and loathe being tickled, it is too overwhelming and makes me terrified and furious, I think it is just as bad as having pain inflicted on me. Anyone else?

  • in reply to Martin

    That makes sense. I guess my touch is just so hyper that it just doesn't make a difference to me if I know it is me doing it, it is still overwhelming sensory input.

  • in reply to Roy

    I'm sorry, I laughed at the vomit response, but it served them right!

  • in reply to battybats

    I don't mind being touched in ways and situations I like, but intensely dislike certain kinds of touch and certain situations, and as you say surprise touch. Yes, I have also had that very fighty response to it, i can relate to nobody trying it twice! Back before I was physically disabled.

  • I find I can tickle my own feet if I use a very light touch with the tip of a fingernail. I expect it is because there is little sensitivity in a nail and therefore no feedback, such as one would get from the fleshy part of a finger, telling the brain that it is yourself doing the tickling..

  • I’ve never liked being tickled, don’t really like being touched full stop. I can remember a relative when I was quite young who thought it was funny to tickle me, they stopped after I vomited over them. Problem solved. I’ve always wondered how people can have massages, I couldn’t think of anything worse.

  • I hate being tickled. I don't like surprises or being touched, and tickling is both at once combined with a lot of sensory input that I can't control.

    On the plus side, my 'fight or flight' instinct tends towards the fighty end of that response, so it's rare that anyone tries to tickle me more than once Smile