Four seems to be a pretty common age. Makes me feel a bit more normal. Haha. Me, I was four years old. I was in a daycare, and we were watching this video, I can't remember the name of it now, but they were singing a song and tickling the kids in the video. And I saw this, and my whole body seemed to tingle, and I didn't understand what it was but I just knew that I needed to be tickled. By anybody. I begged the other kids to tickle me, but none of them obliged. They all looked really confused. I didn't understand it then, but what I was feeling was sexual arousal. A need to be satisfied. Something most four-year-olds are unfamiliar with. Over the next four years, whenever I saw a video or a mere image of somebody being tickled, I wanted it so badly for myself, but people began to regard me as strange. The last time I remember revealing my strangeness was when I was eight years old, enrolled in a different daycare. I suggested playing a tickling game to my group of friends, involving various restraints (for instance, we used my belt to tie the victim's hands to a wooden beam so they could not move). The immobilized person would then be tickle-attacked by the entire group. I found it loads of fun and, of course, always volunteered to be the victim. Eventually my friends grew tired of the game, as children do, and began to move on to other forms of entertainment. When I insisted again and again that we continue playing the tickling game, they finally sensed that something was different about me. Wrong. And just like that, they didn't want to play with me anymore. And I was alone and confused.
As I grew and entered puberty, my strange fetish seemed to take more shape, and I understood certain things. For instance, I understood that I preferred to be tickled by people to whom I was attracted, and if somebody platonic attempted to tickle me, I merely felt uncomfortable. But it wasn't until my junior year of high school that I fully understood who I was and the nature of my strange obsession. And, I'm somewhat ashamed to admit, not until my senior year did I finally confide in somebody. After my third-grade experience, I was terrified of what the people I told would think of me. But I couldn't hide it anymore when it was affecting me so strongly. I told my boyfriend. To my immense delight, he told me that he didn't think I was strange at all. In fact, he sought to understand it, and then to help fulfill it. He's learned to read when I want it, and he's happy to oblige. And you know what? He recently confessed that he may be taking a liking to it too. I'm a lifer, but it's nice to know that there are other people out there who are willing to understand and even join our world.