I've been dealing with a strange issue for as long as I can remember. Even just the thought of touching paper, cardboard, dry rough wood, or similar things drives me up the goddamn wall. I cringe and get goosebumps. It makes my fucking skin crawl. I've looked around and have seen people having the same issue on google and 4chan, but I cannot find an answer as to what it is. Some of the worst shit: popsicle sticks, folding construction paper, newspapers, stepping on paper, and scratching my arm on a cardboard box. It was never that much of a problem until earlier this year in college, I took a drawing class that I had to drop after an hour into the first class because of an oncoming panic attack. The sound of pencils scratching paper, the sawdust in the air from the new not-quite-finished building, the cardboard boxes laying around, etc. just set me off. I ended up talking to a college counselor about it, who thought it might be OCD. Turns out I have a few symptoms of it. I then talked to my psychologist, and discovered it is a possibility, but not really confirmed. I already have anxiety, depression, and insomnia, so I didn't find it too unlikely. Despite all my searching, I cannot find a definitive answer for this phenomenon multiple people experience. Anyone else here on Facepunch experience this? Maybe someone here is more knowledgeable than me on this?
touch a lot of paper and get used to it
I hate the noise of boxes ripping; or that goddamn noise when you unsuccessfully peel plastic off of cardboard. The feel of it really bugs me too so you're not alone in a sense. I think we all have weird quirks like that. I also can't stand styrofoam, the feel, sound, EVERYTHING. I just accept it's part of who I am.
One time I was eating a pizza, using a cardboard plate as a cover. I accidentally bit into the cardboard, and ever since that I can't anymore use cardboard plates for pizzas, or I just get massive goosebumps. I'm a broken person, these wounds will never heal.
[QUOTE=Bordellimies;46756133]One time I was eating a pizza, using a cardboard plate as a cover. I accidentally bit into the cardboard, and ever since that I can't anymore use cardboard plates for pizzas, or I just get massive goosebumps. I'm a broken person, these wounds will never heal.[/QUOTE]
im not gonna lie that sounds fucking awful
I'm not a fan of touching cloth either.
Every night I strip naked, cover myself in vaseline to help prevent paper cuts (shit still happens though) and climb into a refrigerator sized cardboard box that I have filled with several thousand sheets of white printer paper. I call it my paper bin and to writhe in it is really the only thing I can feel anymore that is comparable to joy.
I used to get the same thing but with chalk. The feel of it and the noise it made scraping on the concrete.
If I stick my fingers in a box of powder laundry detergent and rub them together I feel absolutely awful. I can't describe it - it's just a repulsive feeling
Hearing metal cutlery grinding each other makes my teeth whinge. Never figured out why.
I like banana peel.
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;46756171]im not gonna lie that sounds fucking awful[/QUOTE]
It is, I immediately lost my appettite that time and I kept shivering so much whenever I gave even a little glance towards either the pizza or the plate
I get this sort of effect with people scratching stuff like waterproof jacket material and certain materials they use to make trousers. I just feel uncomfortable and get goose bumps when that happens.
I only have a problem with that scratchy scuba material
i can't stand filing - neither the sound nor the vibrations that occur when doing it myself. be it someone filing fingernails or filing some metal bit, i also get goosebumps and cringe.
For me, it's anything powdery or chalky.
Powdered anything I just hate touching or find kind of revolting. I can't explain why. Like, a powdered doughnut is just "eugh" for the first second when it just feels like powder but then the sugar immediately melts in your mouth and I'm alright.
Tape, or anything clingy and sticky touching my fingernails is the absolute worst feeling.
I've never had any problems with paper.
if the glans of my penis comes into contact with the rim of the toilet bowl i can hear satan laughing at me
it is a cruel and cold laugh
Eh, I have a standard tolerance for these things I suppose.
Chalk scraping, forks scraping on plates, etc.
[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;46756354]I get this sort of effect with people scratching stuff like waterproof jacket material and certain materials they use to make trousers. I just feel uncomfortable and get goose bumps when that happens.[/QUOTE]
I'm sorta like this but only if you get two bits and rub it together, no idea why
I think everyone has something like this, a certain noise or feeling that makes their brain flip shit for no reason. You're just unlucky enough to have something unavoidable. Maybe do what Evi said, just relax yourself and try to do something with a piece of paper or some cardboard, then work your way up through things until you're comfortable with it
One of the worst parts about school. My hand resting on it, it always had such a grippy feeling, and worst of all was my blazer scraping the edge of a piece of paper, or resting on it. Fuck that. Fucking torture device, is what paper is.
I hate the sound when a fucking pen marker with no ink draws along a white board. It squeaks and or however you explain that shit; I hate it.
I can't really ask the teacher to "use a better pen" because everyone will look at me with a whole insulting-smile-before-laugh-like-a-cock-head-look.
I couldn't stand touching the blackboards or the chalk in school.
I remember eating a sandwich or something I bought and it was covered in cling wrap and I didn't get it all off and before I realised what happened I saw pieces of the plastic on the bread.
By then I have already ate a good 2 or 3 bites of the cling wrap.
Was wondering why it was so resistant.
I can't stand the sound of felt pen writing on paper, makes my skin crawl.
I hate stickers the same way.
I've never been a fan of metal on metal. It sends shivers down my spine.
i hate having sticky/greasy hands
paper is ok, but touching holograms isn't
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