When did you realize you were a Lee, Ler, or Both?

[goddess_nemesis]

Most of us have our preferences. Some are lees, others are lers. There are those who switch, but lean one way or other or are 50/50 switch.

Many of us discovered that we enjoyed tickling at a young age, maybe not realizing it was a fetish until we were older. Just tickling in of itself. Either being tickled as a child or seeing it on TV, there was something about it we enjoyed more than others did.

So my question is when did you realize what your preference is?

For me, I knew I enjoyed tickling at 13-14 years old. I remember seeing tickling on TV and having a strong reaction because of it, but didn't think of it until I was a teen. However, I didn't really know if I was ler or a lee or a switch until after I had my first session. Up until then, I had considered myself a ler because I didn't think I'd enjoy being tickled and didn't want to lose control like that. After the session, I knew I loved to be tickled, but I'm also willing to switch. So I'm like 90% lee, 10% ler. 🙂

 

[Tickler15]

Most of us have our preferences. Some are lees, others are lers. There are those who switch, but lean one way or other or are 50/50 switch.

Many of us discovered that we enjoyed tickling at a young age, maybe not realizing it was a fetish until we were older. Just tickling in of itself. Either being tickled as a child or seeing it on TV, there was something about it we enjoyed more than others did.

So my question is when did you realize what your preference is?

For me, I knew I enjoyed tickling at 13-14 years old. I remember seeing tickling on TV and having a strong reaction because of it, but didn't think of it until I was a teen. However, I didn't really know if I was ler or a lee or a switch until after I had my first session. Up until then, I had considered myself a ler because I didn't think I'd enjoy being tickled and didn't want to lose control like that. After the session, I knew I loved to be tickled, but I'm also willing to switch. So I'm like 90% lee, 10% ler. 🙂

As far back as I remember....I liked tickling...but since I am not ticklish I am 100 percent ler....

 

[Katie Pants]

I never had the same thoughts about tickling that I did about being tickled. So I guess I always knew I was a lee. Except for the terminology, of course

 

[robmic]

When I knew..........

Supposedly, when I was too young to remember, my much older sister tied me to a tree and tickled me. I don't remember anything about it but I do remember her b/f/at the time, now her husband, decided that she could use a good tickling by me. So, he proceeded to hold her legs and wrists and I remember jumping on her ankles and peeling her sneakers off and going to town on both feet. She went ballistic! I was in a zone! Time seemed to stop and I don't know how long I got to tickle her, but I do remember getting that "feeling" in the pit of my stomach. I was in heaven. Ever since then, I was hooked. I tickled anyone, anytime, anywhere, as long as I could get someone. When I was a kid, I found that boys were more fun to tickle because the just laughed, where as girls would either scream or cry, which took the fun out of tickling them. As I reached puberty, I found out that girls could be much more fun for obvious reasons!
So, I guess that it started when I was quite young!

 

[the tickleshow]

When I was 16, I saw a woman get tickled in a chair in a shopping mall as a gag on a game show called Anything for Money. I always liked tickling, but I became a 'ler from that point forward.

 

[leafstk]

Always liked tickling itself, as long as I can remember 🙂 Although I admit, as a child, I was terrified of being tickled myself

When I came to understand it was more than just an interest, I was predominantly a ler. It wasn't until many years later that I became more curious about my lee side. I wouldn't say I'm a 50/50 switch, because my desire has fluctuated over the years.

And what's more, when you share a dynamic with someone who completely enables you to discover your true potential as either ler or lee or both, there is nothing quite like it 🙂

 

[rhiannon]

For the longest time, I enjoyed just watching when someone got tickled. I didn't know I was a lee before I was 26 and a ler made me try it. 🙂

 

[maniactickler]

As a very young child. i always loved to tickle, but had no interest in being tickled.

 

[BlackestLily]

I would watch TV shows of women being put in bondage (you know those old cartoons) wishing it was me. Every now and again I wished I could do the tickling myself, but only on the women. I think I've been evolving and lately have figured that I am a complete bottom to men - for them I have absolutely ZERO desire to top. As a matter of fact whenever I've done it, it's been a turnoff. (Unless I'm tickling a guy playfully, which rarely happens.) For women though, I've had both the desire to be the bottom and the top. I don't know what that makes me, but I know I'm nearly all lee.

 

[Deleted member 99961]

i think a good deal of us always liked tickling from whichever side of it. I know I pegged my love as Ler when I was 13 in January specifically. I know it was Martin Luther King Day so that day is sentimental for me. Never been a lee, not really something I'd get into. So yea 100% ler here! I too have a dream!

 

[robmic]

I can relate Leafstk. When I was little I avoided getting into a position where I could be tickled by anyone. I remember sometimes laying in bed with my arm over my head and lightly touching my underarm and it tickled like crazy. I couldn't imagine being helpless and being tickled there. Of course, everywhere on my body was ticklish, but I think my underarms were over the top ticklish.
Now, as those days are long gone, I too have changed my opinion about being tickled. But, alas, I'm not nearly as ticklish as I once was. So, now if someone tried, I don't think it would work. Lost opportunities. If only someone had gotten me in a comprising position and tickled me to death when I was a kid, I would have known what I was missing.

 

[Maestro1874]

Right around eleven or twelve. Sort of lost touch with my inner fetishist until I found the online community in my early twenties.

 

[Sweed]

I knew all from the beginning that I was a 'lee. 🙂 Because when I found out, I always fantasized about being tickled, never to tickle someone.

I am open to try switching now though, but I'm still about 90-95 % 'lee. 😉 And my switching is pretty much mostly revenge 😛 Or to make the 'ler tickle me.

 

[SlaverTickler]

I knew I was a ler, when I read on the forum that thats what the person doing the tickling was called. I knew I liked being a ler when I tickled a cute girl and got an eraction from it.

😀

 

[milagros317]

I'm also about 10% ler/90% lee, but I knew it as far back as I can remember, which is to age 4. 😀

 

[-Hari-]

as soon as I recognized my fetish I found myself fantasizing about both, So I guess it was from then.

 

[deadlywiffeathr]

I consider myself a 50/50 switch these days, but it wasn't always the case. When I was younger, like many here, I had an elevated level of interest in tickling and watching people being tickled. Back then the only real way to generate any tickling action (I found) was to initiate it myself, so, I was very much a ler from the ages of about 8 - 13.

My interest kind of faded for a couple of years until I saw a tickling segment on a science show and it just sparked everything up again. I was around 16 or 17 by this stage and I found myself leaning towards wanting to be tickled more and more. I'm not sure why this was the case, but I have a theory that it stemmed from my lack of being tickled when I was younger.

So, long story short, I found the TMF and joined not long after I rediscovered my love of tickling. Since then I've been exploring both roles and came to the conclusion that I love them equally. I love the feeling of being tickled and helpless but I also love having control over someone else's tickling experience and letting my imagination take over. Being a switch is kind of win/win in my books 😛

 

[lovegirlstoes]

I feel like I was about 6 or 7. I can remember specific scenes in the TMNT cartoons where characters were tied up and tickled on their feet with feathers by villains looking for information. It always stuck in my brain and I always hoped those episodes would be repeated. I also remember a few distinct drawings in the Where's Waldo books depicting similar situations.

 

[deadlywiffeathr]

I feel like I was about 6 or 7. I can remember specific scenes in the TMNT cartoons where characters were tied up and tickled on their feet with feathers by villains looking for information. It always stuck in my brain and I always hoped those episodes would be repeated. I also remember a few distinct drawings in the Where's Waldo books depicting similar situations.

Oh man, I can totally relate to the Waldo thing too! xD
Thanks for that blast from the past haha

 

[Cercatore]

8yr old as a playful moment.

17yr old as a sexual activity.

 

[BMoreTklr]

Soooooooo, I knew I liked tickling from the time I was like 5. I knew I really liked tickling, when I got to high school and everyone flirted by quick tickles to the ribs. For some reason, I got the sense that I liked doing it more than everyone else. So much so that I devised a well crafted scheme to get folks (students, teachers, and whoever else in between) to let me tickle their feet for a "science project"......which over the years evolved for a "scholarship competition", etc. Didn't know I was a 'ler' until I saw the term on TMF about 3 - 4 years ago, but always knew I was in that category before I knew there was a term.

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

I've known I loved tickling and that I was a lee for as long as I can remember. Over the past year or two I've delved into lering a bit (always f/m - I have no desire to ler a chick) but even that is minimal and seems to be on a very strict case-by-case basis.

 

[Oddjob0226]

I've had an attraction/fear of tickling sicne I was a kid, like, a little kid. I guess I started out as a scared, masochistic 'lee and developed into a 'ler (or, a switch who is into both) ...... but really feeling it in high school & testing the waters, and actually delving into it more in collage. You know how it goes: a little more money to spend, no parents around; decadence ensues - and usually wins.

 

[CommBoy]

I loved to tickle as far back as I can remember, and really never thought of getting tickled a whole lot. That was until I started getting into tickling with my girlfriend and it turns out she really likes to tickle too. So now that I get tickled frequently I really like it, plus it gives me all the more reason to tickle her so it works out perfectly.

 

[Jagermeistered]

I know when my foot fetish began. But, tickling is a hard one. I know as a ler, it began when I enjoy my lee's laugh. Maybe around mid to late Elementary school, simply because it started as an infatuation. But, being older, I enjoy it more directly!