To be confused as to why nobody else's teeth cringe?

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A bit of a lighthearted post, I didn't really know where to put this but for as long as I've known certain textures have made me feel phenomenally uncomfortable and I can only describe as my teeth cringing. These include, toilet paper, wet cardboard, the stuff in nappies and sanitary towels cotton wool. I've talked about this to my partner, parents and a few friends and none have an idea what I'm on about. Someone please tell me they know what I'm on about before because I can't be the only person?

Cry, not fry!

Urgh I saw the thread title and thought cotton wool 🤢 and tin foil!

Mine is wool. I cant stand the thought of it on my skin and have to test if it squeaks on my teeth. Dd is the same. We call it the err err feeling (the squeaky noise it makes). As a kid my school jumper squeaked and I hated it but felt compelled to do it (shudder).
I own a lot of fleeces as an alternative to jumpers and never buy wool.

People scratching their legs through tights does it for me. The lower the denier the worse it gets. I have to leave the room!

Just thought of some more.
When my food gets caught on DP shorts or brushes last his shorts if my feet are resting on his lap URGHHH.
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My bare feet on the carpet, NOPE NOPE NOPE. One wrong move and 🤢

Foot* not food!

My nipples cringe. Noises like polystyrene, nails on a chalkboard, cutlery scraping badly make my skin crawl all over and honestly my nips do too and IDK, they go kinda hard and I just become aware of them not like in a sexual way though! I’m aware of how bizarre that sounds but honestly it happens and I’ve never said it before now 😂

The expression I'm familiar with is, "It puts my teeth on edge". Wooden lolly sticks and the thought of biting towelling (weird, I know) does it for me.

Extreme heights, and seeing anything that looks very painful, makes my joints feel fizzy.

Yes, it's just the thought of putting some of those things in my mouth, makes my mouth go 'urgggh!!' and shrivel up a bit.

Oh, certain types of cloth. They conjur the thought of me touching them with my tongue, which makes me shudder in horror.

All you wood haters should spare a thought for the poor woman in the hospital bed next to me who had part of her jaw replaced and had to relearn how to open her mouth by sliding wooden sticks between her teeth

This is the worst thread EVER..but morbidly fascinating too
I have to scratch my teeth or bite my finger to make the shudder stop. I hate the wooden ice lolly sticks; I hate washing up chopping boards, or knives with wooden handles when my fingers are wrinkly; and I hate, HATE it when someone rubs their finger across their teeth to make them squeak. Yeah, also wet shoelaces with a stray hair stuck around your finger. Ugh..!

I have a 'squeamish fanny' @chiyo666. Any gory or hospital-set tv programmes, or kids having accidents etc, make my clitoris flutter! Not in a remotely sexual way. My sister has a nervous fanny and hers goes crazy when she's running late

Fine with wooden things....
But cotton wool, wet wool and polystyrene set my teeth on edge.

YESSS. metal 😬

Don't think I've ever felt my teeth itch

Not me, but loads of my friends have described this. One teen I know, who is doing GCSE work, cannot bear to touch paper! She has to get people to put plastic sleeves over the pages of the textbook which she is planning to revise.

Woolly gloves!!!!

Yes! Cotton wool and some towels esp when you’ve just got out of the bath/shower (white ones are worst offenders for some unknown reason?!) and it has that “waaaahaaah, raaaaahaaaahhh” quality, somehow offensively squeaky on an atomic level; like Satan’s accordion... literally my teeth cringe at the thought 😂

The reverberations of a cotton sock washed one time too many, pulled too fast onto a freshly showered foot 😱😱😱

1. cheap and nasty school trousers/work trousers. Usually some awful polyester material but always black. I can’t touch it and if I hear nails/anything scrape on it I will vomit. Not being precious and have never understood it.
2. touching my hair with wet hands, not discussing it just nope.
3. gulping sounds. I have no idea why something so normal makes my teeth shrink in my gums but it does

Does anybody else react really badly like this? It sucks.

Biting clothing or the thought of christening a tie like at school, ugh makes my teeth cringe.

The finely milled and textured inside of the metal bowl of my new stand mixer.
A treat to myself that has unexpectedly taken all the joy from scraping the bowl. Eeeeeeuwww.

Totally understand the wet cardboard - I can’t even deal with wet paper! Getting nails caught in anything with a seatbelt like texture is my nightmare - getting shivers up my spine just thinking about it!!

Also people scratching through clothing🤢 Have an irrational fear of paper in general. Can hardly touch a newspaper and I can’t read a book because of it. Ebooks and online news are the only way!! Hate having to use a nail file or listening to anyone using one🤢

For me it's the thought of chewing on a jumper sleeve. The way it would rub between your teeth, squeak squeak. As well as the shuddery teeth sensation, the thought always gives me a bit of pre-nausea salivation.