It feels awful to me. It used to feel much worse when I was younger for some reason. Touching it felt like it was between by teeth.
It feels awful to me. It used to feel much worse when I was younger for some reason. Touching it felt like it was between by teeth.
Yes.
EDIT:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haptodysphoria
Well, peaches don’t bother me at all, and I can’t think of any other fuzzy surface that does. But I don’t like the feel of velvet at all.
And while I haven’t touched it recently — maybe partly because I avoid it — I’m pretty sure that, like OP, it bothered me more when I was younger.
EDIT2: I don’t experience anything like it being in my teeth, as OP does, just find it distinctly unpleasant. I remember looking at portraits of women wearing velvet dresses and thinking that they had to be outright masochists to have their entire body draped in the stuff.
I also can’t think of any other fabric that I have a similar dislike for. I don’t much like scratchy wool, but finer wool is fine, and even with rough wool, it’s not the same sensation at all.
EDIT3:
Now I’m just imagining what this this would have to feel like:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/62721fdc-78a9-487c-bebc-50b9270adbbc.jpeg
Gahhhh.
EDIT4: Further discussion in the thread and reflection later, it’s not just velvet. Suede also does it (not as strongly, I guess), and new microfiber blankets can cause a limited degree of the same sensation for me. And it’s associated with movement against the fabric.
Yes same to almost all of that, except it gets my teeth too. Worst is when my fingernails are short and my nails and finger pads touch it simultaneously, makes me want to work my jaw up and down as if I’m chewing something like fatty meat. Also send shivers down my spine just thinking about it
I also have a “grit my teeth” reaction, but I don’t think that it’s because I have a sensation in my teeth. More like I just need to distract myself from being in contact with it.
Literally this.
Whenever I try to write on paper with a broken pencil or unclicked pen, or scratch it by mistake I feel like that.
Do you get it with suede too? Now that I think about it, it’s not just velvet…suede gives me a similar sensation. And both are fuzzy fabrics.
yeah, i do.
That picture isn’t velvet. It’s velveteen, or at best crushed velvet. I’d have to check how think it is to see, but it doesn’t look like crushed velvet. Real velvet is an inch and a half thick, and a pain in the ass to wear, because if you move at all you crush part of the velvet and you can’t fix that.