How would your family react to knowing?

[Wii]

If your folks ever discovered about your tickle life (if you kept it a secret), how would you think they'd react to it?

Mine have already discovered and...well...I kinda regret ever being part of it.

They did the following:
- Sent me to a psychiatrist
- Separate me from their bank accounts
- Label me as a psycho
- Claim I lied to the psychiatrist
- Always make fun of me for it

God, sometimes I wish I never got into this if I had known I'd be casted aside like yesterday's newspaper.... *sighs*

 

[U.N.Owen]

That really sucks, and reflects on the people judging you, not on you.

My family does know, because I decided to tell them. They supported me completely, and thought it was perfectly normal. (I also told a psychotherapist once, who also told me it was completely normal).

I'm really sorry to hear what happened to you, though. It's incredible people can react that way to something so harmless.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Probably make fun of me.

 

[LittleFeather1]

My father tells people in the grocery store he has a foot fetish, so I doubt he would care if he found out, but I do think he would consider it strange. My mother in the other hand would probably think I had some kind of mental/sexual disorder, but I doubt she would really do anything about it. I don't think either of my parents would make fun of me for it as they would probably be freaked out and avoid the subject. If my brother, five years younger found out, he would probably be interested and ask questions about it, but I don't think he would tease me. In fact, I think he has the same fetishes I do, based on subtle behavioral things he does.

 

[JackVanderson]

I don't really know what my family would do if I told them about my fetish.
I know if I were going to I'd only tell my mother, because my step father..... well he's an entirely different story lol
But I imagine my mother would give me the "what the fuck" look, think of me as weird, and probably be confused about me for quite some time, but eventually get use to it. So I'm not really going to tell them xD

 

[ress123]

My parents would probably be ok with it, my brothers would most likely make fun of me and my other relatives would get on my ass about it(well some of them because i have some openly gay relatives so there is some......tolerance? I think that's the right word if not my bad):sleep1:

 

[avidler]

My mum kinda suspects because she found a hidden leg/foot fetish mag when I was a teenager. She probably thinks it's weird but she's never freaked out over it. I think she's just thankful I like women's feet, at least, haha.

Tickler21, that truly sucks about what your family did to you. Don't regret who you are. I'd wager your fetish has caused infinitely less pain than they have inflicted on you, so karmically or whatever, you're well ahead.

 

[Stage Whisper]

Tickler21, I'm really sorry to hear that you had such a rough time with your family about the situation. 🙁 It's horrible when your family doesn't support you in something, whatever it is.

Personally... I think my parents would be more like "Why the hell are you telling us this, TMI," and after an awkward laugh or two, we'd move on, and never speak of it again. Either that, or they'd go "...Seriously? No, I mean, you have a fetish? Seriously?" 😛

 

[CellarDweller]

This isn't a topic that would come up in conversation, but since they had little problems with me being gay, I suspect that this wouldn't be too much for them to handle.

 

[tickle_fan031]

Omg that's awful. Sorry to hear youve had a tough time.
I'm not sure how my family would react....they would probably pretend that I never said anything/ be in denial about it. My brother must have some idea though. He's fixed my computer a few times before I had chance to clear out tickle related stuff. He even opened a fairly explicit tickling picture and i denied that I had seen it before and acted dumb (not that that is hard.lol.)and I'm sure he's seen internet history too when I've been on here. But he's never questioned me about it. Even if he did I would probably deny it coz I feel quite ashamed about it (outside of the tickling community).

 

[christhetickler]

my step father is a pastor....when my parents found out, they thought i was watching porn and ever since, they ask me wat im doing on my laptop, or ask if im watching porn, and even told some people that they caught me watching porn...the girl was getting tickled in the video and she was in a bikini....that's not porn -_-
but yea.....Tickler21....we had the same problem

 

[DuckKingXI]

Meh, I think my folks would bother me about it for a bit, but be fine with it. They'd probably make a small fuss and possibly tease me about it (especially mein dad who constantly tries to talk to me like I'm still twelve), but I don't think they'd mind eventually. I don't need the ticklees to be nude, which is probably enough for them to accept it. My older sisters probably wouldn't mind, although I know mein older brother would just look at me strange all the time and hold his girlfriend closer >.>

...But I'd still rather not tell them. Of course there's always the fact yer estimation of how something will go won't end up as ye imagined.

 

[Inverse]

Sorry to hear you had a rough ride, that's very extreme of them. My sister knows, well she found clips when I was younger and still lived at home. She thought I was 'ridiculous' and that it was 'gross' or whatever. The clips were a bit explicit, so it was pretty embarrassing even though I'm totally comfortable with it. Well... that's a lie, tickling is still one of those things I'm very embarrassed to talk about.

Mainly it's because it's one of the few things that still causes a very emotional response from me~ I guess it's a good thing there's still some things that make me blush despite how pervy I am. <3

I don't think anyone in my family would scorn me for it, but it would make any casual tickling suspect~ I would think it'd be kind of hard not to think about once you know a friend or family members kinks.

 

[SteelJaw]

Wow dude, thats rough, but (and please take this in the context its meant) it says a lot about your family, they seem rather intolorent, and despite how you feel right now, you really have to ask your self, do the opinions of such close minded people really matter?

Im 31 years old, been into tickling sence as long as i can remember, and to my own personal exp, I never told my family, basicly because I decided it was none of there buisness.

Tickling for me is fun as well as sexual, so its part of my personal life and my family dosent need to know all about my personal life. My GF shares the same interest and her opinion is really the only one that means much to me anymore.

Basicly I look at it like this, your personal life, weather you have a tickle fetish, bondage fetish, are into furries, gay, straight, bi, or anything else it dosent matter, your a person and you are entitled to be treated with respect, and you will one day find someone special in your life that will treat you with respect.

If your folks ever discovered about your tickle life (if you kept it a secret), how would you think they'd react to it?

Mine have already discovered and...well...I kinda regret ever being part of it.

They did the following:
- Sent me to a psychiatrist
- Separate me from their bank accounts
- Label me as a psycho
- Claim I lied to the psychiatrist
- Always make fun of me for it

God, sometimes I wish I never got into this if I had known I'd be casted aside like yesterday's newspaper.... *sighs*

 

[Mash]

If your folks ever discovered about your tickle life (if you kept it a secret), how would you think they'd react to it?

Mine have already discovered and...well...I kinda regret ever being part of it.

They did the following:
- Sent me to a psychiatrist
- Separate me from their bank accounts
- Label me as a psycho
- Claim I lied to the psychiatrist
- Always make fun of me for it

God, sometimes I wish I never got into this if I had known I'd be casted aside like yesterday's newspaper.... *sighs*

Never was their business, and never will be their business. They will never find out, despite the fact that my mother at least would be okay with it; I can only imagine how shitty my life would be after my sister found out.

I'm going to be very blunt here, and you can very well be angry with me for it; but that kind of bigotry and close-minded ignorance displayed by your family is the shit that makes me lose faith in human beings.

 

[Inverse]

There many people out there that are lacking in free thought and free information. I'm not sure how they got this way~ and I hope if I ever have children that they never grow up to be so ridiculously close minded. It's literally the most suffocating environment when something like revealing tickling as a fetish would cause family to treat a loved one like he's damaged, and then mock him for it. -_-

 

[768lol]

They'd probably break my laptop, send me to a psychiatrist, and my bro and sis would make fun of me.

 

[Rockerzord]

I don't think they would mind, they're very open minded but it's not something I would tell them since it's part of my private life, what I like to do is between me and my gf

 

[dannyboi87]

i think my parents know. well i woukd say definately my mother..... when i was younger and realised that tickling was something that really interested me i did quite alot of 'research' if you will..... little did i know when your mum walks in and you quickly close down a browsing session it did not remove the site you had been looking at. bloody computer history was my nemesis even before i knew it even existed. haha. she has since hinted she knows..... but never truly confirmed. god i hope she never does.... awkward.com.

x

 

[Bashiku]

Hmmmm... I think my mothers side of the family (with whom I am living) knows about my affinity toward tickling. There isn't much talk about it, but when I bring my girl friend from university home and start 'torturing' them, there is always just one reaction from either grandmother or mother.

Phase one: They storm into the room like they heard someones scream.
Phase two: They say "What are you doing?!"
Phase three: They say "You are touching someone else's girlfriend again! Get your own!"

 

[melanie2]

My family is dead.

 

[oman]

Well I told my mom and at first she was a little dodgy but I think she's accepting it

 

[Carnivore]

They'd probably be weirded out. And rightfully so, as there is no reason to have a conversation with family (I assume we're meaning parents? Siblings?) about my proclivities. I do not want to know if my father likes big butts and cannot lie. I do not want to know that my mother prefers a certain sexual position. I do not want to know Uncle X likes being whipped during coitus. None of this is my business, and none of my sex life is theirs. Frankly, I would consider anything more than an inadvertent discovery (how? I can't fathom) to be a gross breach of privacy.

What you do in your bedroom, by yourself or with others, if you business alone (well, plus partners). No one else needs to know or really should have to know. That being said, some of these demonstrate how fundamentally uncomfortable so many are with open sexuality.

 

[Iisme]

This pretty much sums it upup.

 

[DarthGrinn]

I honestly don't think they'd react any differently than if they walked in on my (future) wife and I while we were having sex. i.e. they'd probably totally freakout, and get all embarrassed and awkward but then everything would return to normal once the moment died down.

I guess tickling doesn't qualify as an entire 'lifestyle' for me; it's more a part of what I do to get my kicks, recreationally. That is to say, it's really nobody else's business. Why should my family care about what goes on in my bedroom? Why would I make a hoopla about it and announce it to them? I think that would fall into the 'too much information' category, no?