Hi all
Thanks for the balanced views - please remove if deemed offensive. My thoughts are that it's a simple sharing of information. She references it herself in a fun way, I would imagine it's not something she loses sleep over.
I don't think the sharing of this information trivialises asthma at all, although on reflection my choice of wording in the initial post may imply that one would wish to induce an asthma attack by tickling, or that an asthma attack would in some way be a hilarious outcome, which of course was not the implication I intended, I was just referring to the context in which her ticklishness was revealed in the article (....it reveals it by reference to a potential by-product of this ticklishness....). The fact that when someone tickles her her reaction is one which can bring on an asthma attack implies a ticklish reaction of some sort, be it laughing, out of control behaviour, 'I can't breathe', panic etc - thus implying that Hannah Miley is indeed a ticklish celebrity.
Yes the reaction can induce an asthma attack, but this is a tickling forum so people have of course focused on that aspect - I would hope that nobody hear would doubt the seriousness of asthma as a medical condition, but that's not (or wasn't...) the debate within the thread, so people have not mentioned it.
Hope that makes sense....as I said, please remove if deemed distasteful - no offense intended - I imagine that an interesting, productive discussion could be had around this topic - there's bound to be many tickle fetishists as well as non-fetish people who enjoy harmless tickle fights with partners, but for whom asthma is a barrier when it comes to enjoying tickling
Cheers,
TTG