Any relation between tickle fetish and mental disability?

[911]

Most people have or have had a mental disability even if it's a minor one. I'm no expert but I doubt mental illness and fetishes of any kind are related. People with fetishes are not mentally ill. People who say your mentally ill for having a fetish are probably just ignorant.

 

[P[a]pi]

Haha I hope not. My girlfriend and I aren't mentally disabled, so I'm gonna just answer no.

 

[Stage Whisper]

Hmm... well, other than being recently depressed (don't ask), I do not believe I have or have ever had any disabilities.

I think a lot of my urge to tickle others has come from the fact that, well, bluntly put, I'm incredibly shy. I have friends I've known for years and I still rarely even poke or hug them. I just never know when it's okay to cross that line. The thing is, I'm also a very touchy... dare I say, almost clingy... type of person. I like hugging/being hugged/massaging/tickling (duh =P ) / and so on. I suppose that my shyness, suppressing my urge to be touchy with people I care about, only makes the urge to tickle even worse.

Lucky me. ^^;

Very interesting topic, by the way. I just wish I could contribute more to it other than my own personal experience.

 

[GirlWhoLikes2Laugh]

I believe the term you want is "Pervasive Developmental Disability". It affects more than social skills, though they are one of the more visible areas of impairment. You are correct that it is NOT associated with lower intelligence levels; one of the criteria is, "There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self help skills, adaptive behavior (other than in social interaction) and curiosity about the environment in childhood."

However, it does require:




Although I find the DSM symptoms describe me reasonably well, experts assure me that I do not have Asperger Syndrome. That said, I do feel that my deficit in processing friendly touch (such as hugs, or cuddling) without feeling restricted and trapped would make tickling less relatively aversive.

Is this the sort of thing you meant?

I meant something like that. I am just trying to say that in a few of the books that I've read about people who have Asperger's Syndrome that a lot of them do like to tickle and be tickled.

 

[totally_evil]

I'm not sure about over the pond, but in the U.K. fetishism, BDSM especially, is legally considered a mental problem . I'm not sure about disability, but I'm sure I can find out. I think some of the legal psych types need persuading otherwise

 

[crydun]

That is what I have, asperger syndrome, I'm glad that I'm not the only one then 🙂

I have it too, hon. I've had it all of my life and never knew until 4 months before my 30th birtday. So far, I see no connection. I've been a ler since age 3 and a lee since my 20s

 

[the wiz]

I'm mental and I love ticklng,

Enough said 😀

 

[chrisheaven]

I am 100% mentally deranged and I love tickling