what did u think of your tickling fixation BEFORE you found out others were into it too?

[natscott6282]

at first I just thought everyone was into tickling then I found out none of the people I knew were into it and I thought I was alone and also that I was weird af! then I found out others were into it which was a big relief!

 

[tickle_maniac]

I didn't think I had one until I saw some of FM Concepts' videos. So by then I knew that I wasn't the only one.

 

[com_tklr]

I... thought it was normal! Like, I thought more people were into it than not.

 

[aberdeen]

at first I just thought everyone was into tickling then I found out none of the people I knew were into it and I thought I was alone and also that I was weird af! then I found out others were into it which was a big relief!

but at what age did this first realization first occur...like when you thought everyone was into it and no one seemed to be? I can believe how alone you must have felt...and then what age did u realize others were into it as well (relief occurred)?

 

[SugarSoaker]

I felt so painfully alone. Even once I found the tmf, there was a sense of relief but I still felt so weird: I didn’t see anyone my age or gender here (at the time) so even though I knew I wasn’t the only one, I thought I was the only 18 year old (yup. I was def. 18 when I discovered the tmf and not a day younger) woman into it. It probably took another ten years for me to realize it was a lot common than I thought.

 

[solarcharger]

I actually used to wonder if there were others around who were into it. It wasn’t until I was in my twenties that I found a guy in Dallas who was just as into tickling women’s feet as I was!!

 

[4Pawz]

Let's look at the bingo card, shall we?

Asexual.
Autistic.
Nerd.
Quietest guy in the room without exception.
Has a functional scale in metric and imperial tattooed on his arm and uses it several times a day.

Liking tickling is probably the most normal and least weird thing about me, if you take the time to look.

I feel this more than you can know lol

 

[Elyos]

Yeah it definitely didn't felt as nice back then as it does now. I think it's all about learning to truly love your fetish – once you finally do, it's a bliss in many ways and enriches your life. 👍

 

[tickle_maniac]

I felt so painfully alone. Even once I found the tmf, there was a sense of relief but I still felt so weird: I didn’t see anyone my age or gender here (at the time) so even though I knew I wasn’t the only one, I thought I was the only 18 year old (yup. I was def. 18 when I discovered the tmf and not a day younger) woman into it. It probably took another ten years for me to realize it was a lot common than I thought.

It's never the easiest and each of our journeys is long and hard. But I guess we have one of the "milder" fetishes so that makes things easier now and then.

 

[Bellylaughs]

I was a little embarrassed and scared, at the time, being the goody two shoes of the family came with expectations, and it didn't fit those expectations. It didn't seem to be something anyone else would tolerate either. I felt alone, but I felt less "alone" alone, but monstrous, like I had a skeleton in my closet.

I was already a metalhead before I got into this, and at the time I was fully buying into the warrior culture of manowar (which I cringe about to this day, especially now that I know about their closet skeletons). I wasn't "allowed" according to myself, to like anything " soft". Like, look at me, even without this I'm weird.

I'm an autistic, metalhead non-binary (any pronouns, no dysphoria) ace that happened to have been born with boobs n a snatch, I have a higher "doing stuff" or "aggression" drive than enough people I know to acknowledge I sometimes have to tone it down for my own health, not even mentioning around the normies that it'll scare. I have so much that gives peeps the oogieboogie factor that tickling is just the icing. And yet I'm out to like three people irl. Still.

 

[Jezebel Lee]

Somehow I knew it was abnormal even when I was very little, but at the same time I also knew there were tons of abnormal things about me. I suppose I just thought it was one of many weird things about me.

 

[4Pawz]

I’ve known I was different from a very young age. By the time I was 2 I had the awareness that nothing made sense about me. By body didn’t match my sense of self, I had varied interests, I didn’t talk like others, I was intellectually accelerated and already reading. At age 6, I started naturally transitioning more into my self-image, even though I knew I wasn’t like others. By the time I hit puberty, I was in full dysphoria and really just didn’t like myself. I had been pushed toward one thing or another, dismissed, shunned, and in a lot of ways I was on the struggle bus.

By the time I discovered the interest or pleasure, I was in “whatever” mode and it was just one more thing that made me feel different and alone. Finding this place helped me, slowly, explore it and know that while I was still alone, and very different, I had something in common with others.

 

[FootTickleManiac]

I thought I had a unique and very weird off shoot of a foot fetish with my tickling girls feet fetish. Didn't even know others had it or that there were actually porn videos for it in the 80's and 90's. It made my sex life very difficult in those 2 decades. But I did finally come out about it in the mid - late 90's to one very cool and open minded lady I was seeing and all was good from there forward.

But It wasn't until I first got on the internet in 1999 that I found out I wasn't alone. It was both a relief and a let down at the same time. The let down was that I didn't have the unique fetish I thought I had all my life 😆

 

[FFT32]

Being that I always loved pretty feet and wanted to tickle them, combined with the early experiences I had, I loved it and assumed others did as well.

 

[AI93JR]

Well I never really fit in with the other kids or anyone of my generation so I was very comfortable being the private weirdo.

 

[wolfman40]

I first got the internet in late 96, and it was great to know I wasn't alone.

Although being in the UK I felt very isolated.

Now over the last 20 years the UK scene has grown exponentially and there are lots of events and munches, and I've made many friends, so I feel a lot more connected and a part of something special

 

[milagros317]

When I didn't know that anybody else thought of tickling and being tickled as erotic, I thought that I was weird, some kind of freak.
It wasn't until my teens that I saw, through letters in Penthouse magazine, that others shared my erotic interests.

 

[aberdeen]

When I didn't know that anybody else thought of tickling and being tickled as erotic, I thought that I was weird, some kind of freak.
It wasn't until my teens that I saw, through letters in Penthouse magazine, that others shared my erotic interests.

The Penthouse magazine was where I got some of my first exposure to tickling fixation (bec I pre date the internet). Reading the our stories of sensual adventures did sometimes include tickling, I did some fun tickling of girls before going to college, but the real awakening for me came when I met a GF in college who was housesitting for a professor. She was older ( 24 to my 20/21 ) and we worked together on campus. She decided to make me her 'spring / summer project' IE "fling' while the professor (who she had been dating) was on sabbatical. So she essentially seduced me but in our discussions, she pulled out the professors Penthouse collection and said I could choose what we could re-enact in the bedroom. Well, I found a couple of sensual scenes but also a couple tickling scenes. This girl was tall and enjoyed bondage and being tied up by me (much shorter - 5'5" to her 6'3) ! She wasn't really into tickling, but to get the bondage and sex she(we) wanted, we came to an agreement that I could use bondage and tickle her pretty much to my heart's content as long as we enjoyed the 'rewards' afterwards! It was a nice partnership while it lasted. Thank goodness for the Penthouse magazines as I may not have brought up tickling to that extent without the stories that prompted me!

 

[bluey1]

at first I just thought everyone was into tickling then I found out none of the people I knew were into it and I thought I was alone and also that I was weird af! then I found out others were into it which was a big relief!

I was the other way. I thought no-one other than me and people in videos were "into" tickling. Until I found (on ebay) and read Veronia Francis' "Let's Talk About Tickling" book in 2015. And then I found the TMF.

 

[SoleHarvester]

I thought I was just weird.

 

[Sunriseticklee]

My goodness, I thought no one loved it as much as I did, and it just added to how weird I was overall. Lol

I see many of us have a lot more in common than our love for tickling. 😊

But I was the biggest ler (much more than a lee at first), and the amount of time I spent terrorizing others is a bit shameful. Gained tons of wisdom with age. Lol

It was such a relief to find out that I wasn't alone. I do love that so many of you are here... I still question the whys and my insatiable desire to give and receive. I've just resolved myself to a vanilla life til the end of time. 💁🏾‍♀️🙃

 

[natscott6282]

My goodness, I thought no one loved it as much as I did, and it just added to how weird I was overall. Lol

I see many of us have a lot more in common than our love for tickling. 😊

But I was the biggest ler (much more than a lee at first), and the amount of time I spent terrorizing others is a bit shameful. Gained tons of wisdom with age. Lol

It was such a relief to find out that I wasn't alone. I do love that so many of you are here... I still question the whys and my insatiable desire to give and receive. I've just resolved myself to a vanilla life til the end of time. 💁🏾‍♀️🙃

what level of ler were u? as in how in depth and extreme tickling would u of taken it too if u could?

 

[TickleYeti]

at first I just thought everyone was into tickling then I found out none of the people I knew were into it and I thought I was alone and also that I was weird af! then I found out others were into it which was a big relief!

I've come to realize that even amongst kink sites we are oftentimes as rare as unicorns, so I cherish every tickling inclined connection that I make haha

 

[duderino84]

I thought I was nebulous, I guess, which would be obvious in certain ways.

This place was kind of my 18ish kind of realization "oh, there's a club for this, too."

I think in some ways I "opted for the hard life" with this interest; it came to my awareness when I was alone, I never really had a fluency of the whole intimacy situation, it just happened to be the thing that made me feel connected.

Even when I put something as subtle as a picture of feather ticklers in a dating profile, I still feel a little defensive and suspicious when someone makes the spontaneous correlation. it happened recently. Idk. To me, in some ways, I just feel like one I'm a billion that is "interested in tickling".

 

[Toesheldback]

I’m going to be the unicorn here, but I remember my male friends in elementary school being into it, I.e. we’d chase girls down at recess and pin them down and tickle them. But they soon outgrew it. I did not.