Normal things that gross you out.

[BluePonds]

Not sporn or gross habits. Just every day things.

Used teabags make me feel funny.

Bits of cooked egg on a fish slice/spatula is gross.

The corners of books when they're turned up.

Feet. I even hate the word. This time of year is the worst for it with people wearing sandals. No one seems to put socks or shoes on their toddlers and babies. I hate it especially toddlers when their feet get chubby and shapeless. It's horrible.

Also certain names and words make me feel ill.

Such are the joys of being autistic and having an overreaction to so many things.

What normal things disgust you?

Mugs especially with cold drinks in.

Thankfully, I dont care for tea and coffee anyway.

Hair in sinks.

The bit of tea/spit that runs down the mug after you take a sip. Ew.

Solidified/crusty food on sauce bottles especially ketchup. This has actually morphed into a ketchup phobia.

The little flakes that sometimes gather around the top of a milk bottle and land in tea or coffee.

Swimming pool floors make my skin crawl.

Eye goop/crust on dogs.

The dishwasher water that gathers on the bottom of some of the upturned cup/mug in a dishwasher.

Dishcloths, but more so other peoples dishcloths.

Mushrooms.

Anyone other than me cleaning their teeth. Even on TV.

Cigarettes and more specifically cigarette butts. They make me feel faint and vomity. I have to avert my eyes if there are butts on the ground. I cannot tolerate sitting on an outside table (like at a pub) where they have an ashtray.

Once on a picnic I got up from sitting on the ground and found a butt stuck to my calf. I threw up there and then.

I say it is not a phobia. But an intense aversion.

People eating fruit in public. Juice running down their mouths, strong smells bothering others (bananas are the worst for that), stones/pips, peel, everywhere. Yuck.

I only notice that with bearded men.

Oh, so many. For a start, @FIZZYTEDDY - I’ll have all yours!

Then…

• belly buttons particularly outies for some reason)
• shower curtains (I’d rather a strip wash as I can’t have them touching me)
• filthy fingernails
• greasy scalps
• smell of greasy scalps
• virtually all bodily fluids
• other peoples’ dish cloths and tea towels
• dried snot on babies’ faces
• gross, smeary windows on buses
• bath mats in hotels and many peoples’ houses
• old, stained mattresses
• stained cups in cafes
• moles and blemishes on skin (even my own)
• cigarettes
• public loos
• loo doors not my own
• gross washing up water
• all bins (I use a plastic bag, sorry!)

Washing out a pan that you’ve mashed potato in. Gives me the ick.

@FIZZYTEDDY everything you said

Blood. Used teabags left out. Feet. Sweaty bodies with no top on (I'm thinking of you, man in the beer garden).

Wet bread
Dirty white trainers
Everything @FIZZYTEDDY listed
Cold damp dishcloths

Same here, @SouthernJurassic - I hate smoking intensely. The smell upsets me and over-stimulates me sensory-wise. And yuck, the butts everywhere, particularly this time of year. I’d hope by now that smokers would be more considerate in chucking them away from the edge of playgrounds etc.

Oh, and dentures and food that collects in them. A while back, I worked as a live-in carer, and although I was never fond of personal care (I’m squeamish), poop was nothing compared to slimy food remnants in the dentures that’s I’d have to clean each night before sterilization m- boak! And I know this is my issue- not one for my lovely clients, but many carers can deal with it.

@shakingmytambourineatyou - you’ve just put me off my late lunch with your mention of revolting and sweaty shirtless men! Yuck; I’m thinking hairy backs with pimples and massive moles all over now!

Rice that has stuck to the bottom of the pan. It happened to me once, and it was stuck all over the bottom and it literally made my skin crawl, I don't know why! And then when I scraped it off it was all stuck together with a sort of starchy film, gaaaaah!

Mash potatoes. (I was made to eat (cold lumpy & grim) it at infant school until I threw up back in the 70's), still can't face it

Balloons. Creaky, squeaky, floaty fuckers full of spit 🤮🤮

Me too! I can't bear it.

Leftover food on plates - I find scraping it into the food bin really gross.

I'm fine with actual leftovers, I frequently batch cook and keep some for another day. But for some reason cold food left on a plate is horrible.

Nellesvilla would absolutely hate my house! We have at least 60% of your list here

Wooden spoons
Labels on clothes poking out
Plasters in the swimming pool
Hair in the sink
Soggy food - dunked biscuits/bread and butter pudding 😷

No one seems to put socks or shoes on their toddlers and babies. I hate it especially toddlers when their feet get chubby and shapeless. It's horrible

I am in shock at this comment! Surely there is nothing better in the world than babies/toddlers feet? I actually miss the slightly cheesy smell of my dc's feet when they were small! Mens feet I agree with - I have never seen a man with nice feet. Strangely women's don't bother me, unless they have unpainted yellow toenails. Even worse if in Birkenstocks.

For me it's:
*People mopping up bean juice/gravy etc with bread. That knocks me sick.
*Swimming pools - especially the area around them. I actually had to go to a spa recently and nearly had a panic attack when we went to get in the pool - the thought of everyone's bare feet walking around in that slimy wetness and then the water draining into the pool 🤮. I managed about 5 mins in there and then got out!
*bluebottles - I'd rather have a snake in my kitchen than a bluebottle.

The P word. (A diminutive for pants).
It makes me cringe, I can’t bear it. My DDs learned to call them knickers, pants or jokingly and euphemistically “the P word”.
A boyfriend of theirs once innocently used the word in my presence and both DDs gasped in shock “He said the P word! You can’t say the P word!”
Poor chap was v puzzled, but fell about laughing when they explained. It helped that he was autistic, as are both DD1 and I, so had his own foibles.