Question

[johnmartin54200]

Do you think that being ticklish is an inheirted or genetic thing or is it like just more like a personality thing. For example if you have a real good sense of humor or always laughing and stuff are you more likely to be ticklish than a serious or mean person? Or if your parents or people in your family are ticklish does that make you more likely to be ticklish? What do you think?

 

[Illtcklu]

Good question!!! I think it might even be psychological.......


I've known some 'lees' to get more "ticklish" if you say the word tickle or giggle or something of the like!!!!

 

[Fidji999]

For me it's definitely not inherited. None of my parents are ticklish or into tickling at all. None of my family ever tickled me, when I was a kid. I do have a great sense of humor, but still I don't think it's related to that either. I'd rather agree with Illtcklu - it's something psychological.
If someone says tickle I'll get shivers down my spine immediately...
fidji

 

[drew70]

...If someone says tickle I'll get shivers down my spine immediately...
fidji

Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle....... 😀

 

[mb7700]

not inherited

As a new TMF member, I'll jump in here for my first thread. I do not think that being ticklish is inherited, but probably has more to do with personality type. For example, my sister, a high-strung, excitable type, has always been verrry ticklish, while I'm much more laid back and scarcely ticklish at all. Yet we come from the same exact gene pool.

 

[locker669]

I haven't heard of any triplet repeat expansions in a tickle gene, so I would say not inherited.

 

[Fidji999]

Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle....... 😀

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