ADHD, tryptopobia and holes

[MrsTerryPratchett]

There's another thread running about fear of holes. You know those pictures of lotus flower heads and the like?

Well I realised the sporning/holes thing is linked in me. I react to the pictures but it's a bit like the feeling with blackheads, weird but good.

I also have ADHD.

I was wondering about the rest of you weirdos.

I also have adhd. Love a hole (ahem), especially on those close-up videos of people pulling blackheads/sebaceous filaments out with tweezers. phwoar It's like ASMR to me.

slinks off back to spoorner corner

Wait! I'm in sporner corner already, ffs...

I know my audience!

Enjoy!

I love it. I want to pull everything out when I see those lotus pictures. Also have ADHD!

I have trypophobia and the sporning/blackhead videos are the worst. They can linger for days…

<backs away from the thread>

There there, you’re among friends…

Sidling past.... virtually rubbernecking🥴

I'm too old to have been diagnosed with ADHD, but I think I probably do have it. I have a lot of the traits. I have always been and squeezer, a picker and a prodder. I get the same itchy fingers with the trypophobia photos and blackhead squeezing vids. Its a kind of deep concentrated anticipation, its almost mouth watering. I'm so pleased to have found this specialist corner of mumsnet.

I wonder it's there's some kind of adaptive thing.

<ponders PhD>

I have the tryp thing - started with barnacles on rocks when I was young. I am also a massive sporner but it's a scale which heightened enjoyment of sporn sometimes tips over into Tryp and I have to stop.

They're definitely linked for me - the tryp is the fear / disgust of stuff in the holes so the sporn is clearing that stuff out and cleansing the image.

I'm a sporner, not got ADHD just a dirty sporner 🤣

I do sometimes wonder if a feature of ADHD is how we process risk. I know were typically less risk averse. Roller coasters and scary things are biologically very similar. Maybe ADHDers are just more likely to process those biological prosesses as fun not fear.

And therefore the same for holes/sporn.

I don't have ADHD but do love the holes!

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/ITM/

I do have ADHD and am a professional sporner but hate rollercoasters.

Any jobs you'd like taken off your hands?

<rubs thighs>

I have that condition too, there's quite a few about really. I belonged to a so called online 'support' group for it, but left as quickly as I joined as it made my phobia even worse!

I could have written this.

It’s why I stay away from those vids. I know they would warp me further.

I have autism and I am a trypophile - love holes!

Two of my DC have diagnosed ADHD. One of them is a sporner and loves rollercoasters. NT DC no interest in sporn or rollercoasters.