what did u think of your tickling fixation BEFORE you found out others were into it too?

[natscott6282]

at first I just thought everyone was into tickling then I found out none of the people I knew were into it and I thought I was alone and also that I was weird af! then I found out others were into it which was a big relief!

 

[tickle_maniac]

I didn't think I had one until I saw some of FM Concepts' videos. So by then I knew that I wasn't the only one.

 

[com_tklr]

I... thought it was normal! Like, I thought more people were into it than not.

 

[aberdeen]

at first I just thought everyone was into tickling then I found out none of the people I knew were into it and I thought I was alone and also that I was weird af! then I found out others were into it which was a big relief!

but at what age did this first realization first occur...like when you thought everyone was into it and no one seemed to be? I can believe how alone you must have felt...and then what age did u realize others were into it as well (relief occurred)?

 

[SugarSoaker]

I felt so painfully alone. Even once I found the tmf, there was a sense of relief but I still felt so weird: I didn’t see anyone my age or gender here (at the time) so even though I knew I wasn’t the only one, I thought I was the only 18 year old (yup. I was def. 18 when I discovered the tmf and not a day younger) woman into it. It probably took another ten years for me to realize it was a lot common than I thought.

 

[solarcharger]

I actually used to wonder if there were others around who were into it. It wasn’t until I was in my twenties that I found a guy in Dallas who was just as into tickling women’s feet as I was!!

 

[4Pawz]

Let's look at the bingo card, shall we?

Asexual.
Autistic.
Nerd.
Quietest guy in the room without exception.
Has a functional scale in metric and imperial tattooed on his arm and uses it several times a day.

Liking tickling is probably the most normal and least weird thing about me, if you take the time to look.

I feel this more than you can know lol

 

[Elyos]

Yeah it definitely didn't felt as nice back then as it does now. I think it's all about learning to truly love your fetish – once you finally do, it's a bliss in many ways and enriches your life. 👍

 

[tickle_maniac]

I felt so painfully alone. Even once I found the tmf, there was a sense of relief but I still felt so weird: I didn’t see anyone my age or gender here (at the time) so even though I knew I wasn’t the only one, I thought I was the only 18 year old (yup. I was def. 18 when I discovered the tmf and not a day younger) woman into it. It probably took another ten years for me to realize it was a lot common than I thought.

It's never the easiest and each of our journeys is long and hard. But I guess we have one of the "milder" fetishes so that makes things easier now and then.

 

[Bellylaughs]

I was a little embarrassed and scared, at the time, being the goody two shoes of the family came with expectations, and it didn't fit those expectations. It didn't seem to be something anyone else would tolerate either. I felt alone, but I felt less "alone" alone, but monstrous, like I had a skeleton in my closet.

I was already a metalhead before I got into this, and at the time I was fully buying into the warrior culture of manowar (which I cringe about to this day, especially now that I know about their closet skeletons). I wasn't "allowed" according to myself, to like anything " soft". Like, look at me, even without this I'm weird.

I'm an autistic, metalhead non-binary (any pronouns, no dysphoria) ace that happened to have been born with boobs n a snatch, I have a higher "doing stuff" or "aggression" drive than enough people I know to acknowledge I sometimes have to tone it down for my own health, not even mentioning around the normies that it'll scare. I have so much that gives peeps the oogieboogie factor that tickling is just the icing. And yet I'm out to like three people irl. Still.

 

[Jezebel Lee]

Somehow I knew it was abnormal even when I was very little, but at the same time I also knew there were tons of abnormal things about me. I suppose I just thought it was one of many weird things about me.

 

[4Pawz]

I’ve known I was different from a very young age. By the time I was 2 I had the awareness that nothing made sense about me. By body didn’t match my sense of self, I had varied interests, I didn’t talk like others, I was intellectually accelerated and already reading. At age 6, I started naturally transitioning more into my self-image, even though I knew I wasn’t like others. By the time I hit puberty, I was in full dysphoria and really just didn’t like myself. I had been pushed toward one thing or another, dismissed, shunned, and in a lot of ways I was on the struggle bus.

By the time I discovered the interest or pleasure, I was in “whatever” mode and it was just one more thing that made me feel different and alone. Finding this place helped me, slowly, explore it and know that while I was still alone, and very different, I had something in common with others.

 

[FootTickleManiac]

I thought I had a unique and very weird off shoot of a foot fetish with my tickling girls feet fetish. Didn't even know others had it or that there were actually porn videos for it in the 80's and 90's. It made my sex life very difficult in those 2 decades. But I did finally come out about it in the mid - late 90's to one very cool and open minded lady I was seeing and all was good from there forward.

But It wasn't until I first got on the internet in 1999 that I found out I wasn't alone. It was both a relief and a let down at the same time. The let down was that I didn't have the unique fetish I thought I had all my life 😆

 

[FFT32]

Being that I always loved pretty feet and wanted to tickle them, combined with the early experiences I had, I loved it and assumed others did as well.