Can You Pretend To Not Be Ticklish?

[TKLVR181]

I was talking to AutumnDreams in the childhood fears thread and I got to thinking--when I was growing up I avoided being tickled by pretending to not be ticklish. My step siblings would try for a few seconds and I would hold still, keep a straight face, and stare them down. I could still feel the tickling, but I could psych myself out so that it just didn't affect me.

I've learned that to be 'really' ticklish I have to feel safe--I always felt like I had to prove myself my step sibs, so I held it in with ease. Anybody else have any similar stories of being able to just act not ticklish?

~K

 

[Numbah-1]

Yup, I would pretend all the time not to be ticklish. If I reacted to someone trying to and they ask, "Are you ticklish?" I would always shrug it off and insist no. Lately I seem to have more response to pokes and tickles though.


Either Im getting more ticklish because
1. more comfortable in life with this fetish
2. Ive truly believed for years I wasnt ticklish and I really was.
Either way as a 'ler its bullshit lol

 

[Wade1]

I have tried this so many times. So many times when you really don't want to get tickled by someone and you know all you have to do is keep a straight face for a few seconds and they'll assume you're not ticklish and give up and you'll be safe.

I've never managed to do it. There are so many situations where you can be stoic and tough it out, including pain, but for me unfortunately tickling is just not one of them. I try to resist the sensations but as soon as they touch me my face changes -- my lips tighten, my eyes brighten, you can tell I'm suppressing giggles -- and my body tenses, nearly quivering with the strain of trying not to twitch.

And I can see my ticklers see these signs, and I see the grin broaden on their faces, and I know I've screwed it up -- the tickling continues and I'm milliseconds away from breaking.

 

[Ticklishz]

I love to try but nearly impossible for me! Maybe light tickling on my feet or back--cause it can feel good but even then I let out a giggle.

 

[DarthGrinn]

I think being touched by strangers or people I don't trust, though that rarely has ever happened, overrides any ticklishness with a sense of general unease. It's hard to enjoy something when you aren't comfortable, yknow?

So, no, while I cannot outright pretend to be not-ticklish, I wouldn't react to tickling if I was generally uncomfortable, uneasy or upset.

 

[botman]

I can hold the laughter for those crucial couple of seconds. People give up rather easily after that initial try.

 

[oritaku666]

I've tried, but I'm a bit too squirmy to hide how ticklish I am.

 

[TKLVR181]

I have recently learned that it does not work on my upper legs :blush Knees, thighs, and hips drive me wild no matter how hard I'm trying to keep my voice down. I always knew those were my worst spots but apparently they're worse than even I knew!

~K

 

[sparkychao]

lolno, I'll never be able to pretend I'm not ticklish. Personally though, I'm ok with that.

 

[Senshi1]

Assuming it does not catch me off guard, I'm in the same boat as Botman - I can act unaffected for a few seconds, but I break down if the tickler persists.

 

[BlackDragonScar]

I've tried but women like Karen over there bring it out of me >_< CHEATERS ALL OF YOU!

 

[silktkl]

i have tried but it never works for long

 

[chicag0]

I'm the same as you, Karen. I have to be comfortable and relaxed or my reactions will be muted. Even more so if I'm mad or someone I don't want to touch me is doing so.

 

[sparkychao]

Now that I think about it, if I'm expecting it, I think I'd be fine.

 

[MistressValerie1]

I'm the same as you, Karen. I have to be comfortable and relaxed or my reactions will be muted. Even more so if I'm mad or someone I don't want to touch me is doing so.

I'm pretty much the same way.

 

[mrlaskoskotacz]

If I must be honest, I don't know how much I am ticklish exactly because of this.

Yet, I probably not so ticklish because I can endure tickling even from surprise by some time and then all people who try, think that I am not ticklish.

Of course, probably if someone will try harder then find some ticklishness in me, not saying about tickling with bonding, when in this case someone can find ticklishness for sure, but...
But I am sexually in to tickling girls, not for being tickling myself, so...

PS When I was child, I was very ticklish, but I try endure tickling to that level when in now I easy fake that I am not ticklish at all.

 

[TKLVR181]

If I must be honest, I don't know how much I am ticklish exactly because of this.

Yet, I probably not so ticklish because I can endure tickling even from surprise by some time and then all people who try, think that I am not ticklish.

Of course, probably if someone will try harder then find some ticklishness in me, not saying about tickling with bonding, when in this case someone can find ticklishness for sure, but...
But I am sexually in to tickling girls, not for being tickling myself, so...

PS When I was child, I was very ticklish, but I try endure tickling to that level when in now I easy fake that I am not ticklish at all.

I was the same way growing up, hiding it whenever someone tried to attack me, and therefor I thought I wasn't very ticklish. Until I met people who tied me up. Then I found out that being able to hide it when you're untied and able to psych yourself up and keeping it in when you're bound and helpless are two very different things xD You may well be ridiculously ticklish, maybe one day you'll find out!

~K

 

[mrlaskoskotacz]

Maybe, but as I said, I am not fired up to being tickling, this is really neutral for me. But tickling girl, this is another thing completely.