YouNeverKnow175
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Who knew...a Wall Street Journal article on "Why Some People Are More Ticklish Than Others" from February.
http://www.ws j.com/articles/why-are-some-people-more-ticklish-than-others-1455560232 (remove space)
Here's the most interesting part for me:
Aging Out
Some people have a stronger giggle response than others. This might be because they have more touch receptors, which we all start to lose at about age 20. “Every year you lose about 1% of the nerve endings in your skin,” he says. But losing nerve endings still doesn’t entirely account for diminished ticklishness, says Dr. Linden, who considers himself moderately ticklish for a middle-aged man. And ticklishness doesn’t have its own neurons. “Even if we did a biopsy of the ticklish parts of the skin, we would find no particular cluster of neurons specifically identified with the tickle response,” he says....
...The tickle response is interrelated to lots of factors and learned then unlearned over time, Dr. Linden says. And just because you may be approaching 40, don’t think your tickle response will evaporate as you blow out the candles, as some experts suggest. “There is nothing magical about 40,” he says.
So, good news for all who are hoping they or their partners don't lose their ticklishness as they get older 🙂 I love how he kind of makes it sound like there are extremely ticklish people out there who have just been waiting and waiting for their 40th birthdays to FINALLY lose their ticklishness, and he's dashing their hopes.
And I'm not particularly interested in M ticklees, but the fact that "says Dr. Linden, who considers himself moderately ticklish for a middle-aged man" is included.....I don't even know what to say!!
http://www.ws j.com/articles/why-are-some-people-more-ticklish-than-others-1455560232 (remove space)
Here's the most interesting part for me:
Aging Out
Some people have a stronger giggle response than others. This might be because they have more touch receptors, which we all start to lose at about age 20. “Every year you lose about 1% of the nerve endings in your skin,” he says. But losing nerve endings still doesn’t entirely account for diminished ticklishness, says Dr. Linden, who considers himself moderately ticklish for a middle-aged man. And ticklishness doesn’t have its own neurons. “Even if we did a biopsy of the ticklish parts of the skin, we would find no particular cluster of neurons specifically identified with the tickle response,” he says....
...The tickle response is interrelated to lots of factors and learned then unlearned over time, Dr. Linden says. And just because you may be approaching 40, don’t think your tickle response will evaporate as you blow out the candles, as some experts suggest. “There is nothing magical about 40,” he says.
So, good news for all who are hoping they or their partners don't lose their ticklishness as they get older 🙂 I love how he kind of makes it sound like there are extremely ticklish people out there who have just been waiting and waiting for their 40th birthdays to FINALLY lose their ticklishness, and he's dashing their hopes.
And I'm not particularly interested in M ticklees, but the fact that "says Dr. Linden, who considers himself moderately ticklish for a middle-aged man" is included.....I don't even know what to say!!
