To think it's normal to not like my skin to touch my skin

[Serena1977]

Just that really!

I dont like the feeling when my skin is touching my skin eg having my legs together in bed without material between them, folding my arms or allowing under boob to touch chest skin. Things like that or am I weird?

Same here! Hate my legs touching and usually end up with the duvet between them even if I'm wearing pyjama bottoms lol.

YANBU, I hate my bare legs touching, I'm another who uses the duvet as a leg divider.

Also dresses and skirts, must be work with tights, leggings or them short type things.

Just hate the sensation

Even in summer il leave one leg in the pj trousers while the “top” one (if I’m on my side) is out to create a barrier so the skin doesn’t touch!

I can leave a bra off but il find myself quite often absent mindedly orbunconsciously lifting them up or tucking material or my hand under them when I’m sitting for a while watching tv etc so they don’t sit on me

Can’t stand my bare feet touching each other. So wrong. Agree also about boobs touching the skin below them.

I’m funny about touch in general though, and like to wear long sleeves and legs (or tights/leggings) pretty much at all times. I take Vitamin D because it’s only my hands and face that ever see daylight!

This is crazy to find a person exactly like me! This is literally the reason I could never cut my hair short or sleep with it tied back. Would have to put something over my ear. And I always sleep with trouser pjs.

I can’t have my skin touching at all in bed and have to have my ears covered. I also hate wearing skirts and dresses without tights. It makes me cringe.

You're not weird to me, I'm the same.

Well I don’t know about weird or not, but I hate it too. (I am Autistic though). I hate not wearing a bra so much that when I came round from having major surgery i insisted someone help me put my bra on because I can’t stand my boobs touching my chest 😂

It's bony bits for me. Ankle bones touching 😷

Seems to me life must be quite challenging for people who "can't stand" to have one part of their own body touching another part of their own body.

Just goes to show, you never know the mountains other people have to climb.

I know you're being semi-facetious/silly (and this won't be the case for everyone who doesn't like this feeling of course!) but sensory issues are genuinely pretty stressful to live with and can be quite severe!

I can't stand the feeling of touching my own hair (anywhere on body) when it's wet. When I'm going through a rough period/my sensory issues are especially heightened (illness, a bad MH period etc) I will avoid showering because of it, which is a pretty miserable way to live.

Obviously, it can just be an aversion for some people (and maybe there's a hint of hyperbole in some of these responses 😅) but... sometimes what seems trivial or silly can actually have quite a lot more to it.

(Sorry - not a lecture, more a friendly sidenote)

Y E S.

I can’t stand this. What’s really upsetting is that I can’t stand the feeling of my boobs on my chest (they’re huge) but I ALSO can’t stand the feeling of fabric strapping them in. Both make me incredibly uncomfortable. I wish I could just cut them off but I’m not eligible even for private surgery.

Also can’t stand the feeling of my hair being down, my skin being wet, my breath on my skin or other people’s body heat.

I also have to sleep with earplugs as I can’t stand the duvet crinkling - but the curtains must be open as otherwise little chinks of light wind me up.

Life is pretty tricky sometimes.

There's no need for the lecture "friendly sidenote". I have a few sensory peccadilloes myself, and certainly wasn't questioning the existence of such a phenomenon.

My post was literally just intended as a light-hearted comment on the fact that I'd never heard of this one in particular and think it sounds more onerous than an aversion to say, wearing shoes, tight waistbands, etc, etc.

I think the way you put “can’t stand” in quotes implies that people are either lying or being ridiculous. If you have sensory issues yourself I don’t know why you would put it that way. Because yes, actually, it IS challenging to live with. Also I think @housemaus was a damn sight politer and nicer than I would have been to your comment that reads extremely patronising.

I'll tell you what I don't like. My inside thighs touching each other on a warm summer's day 😬
#chubrub

Why all the obsessive worry on here about whether something is 'normal'? Everyone is different, and that's good.

f you have sensory issues yourself I don’t know why you would put it that way.

Because it was a direct quote from PP.

Because yes, actually, it IS challenging to live with.

Which I acknowledged. It sounds REALLY challenging, well beyond the examples I gave.