Comments on: Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?

By: maddey

maddey — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:24:05 +0000

I love to tickle my own feet & on top of my neck or back.Its not a ticklish as when somebody else does it but i can tickle myself.Its relaxing

By: Petunia

Petunia — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:01:00 +0000

well I am very ticklish. Mostly behind my knees and my sides. I can’t tickle myself, I wish I could though. My friend will tickle me behind my knees for hours, she has too. It was so funny!!! If you ever meet a ticklish person tickle them to tears!!!!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:41:21 +0000

I can tickle my own feet, usually if I am standing and take my sole and drag it over the back of my shoe.

And I am MORE ticklish the older I get!

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:36:20 +0000

I can’t believe it… I thought I was the only one who had this problem. I was actually searching on Google about it when I found this thing. It’s so difficult for me to stand other people touching me, but I’ve learned to deal with it. I think it’s a process.

I can also tickle myself sometimes, there are some moments where I cannot touch my own belly, it’s so annoying. =\

By: Dolly

Dolly — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:57:11 +0000

Years ago, my younger brother tormented me with tickling, so I taught myself not to respond, using plain old willpower. I became not ticklish, period. Later, I was able to teach this to my youngest daughter when her brother started to tickle her unmercifully at an early age. Of course, the delicious revenge factor now is that HE is very ticklish but she isn’t.

By: Em

Em — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:46:16 +0000

I can tickle myself, not just in one place either, anywhere I’m ticklish.

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:56:08 +0000

Question – do people become less ticklish as they get older? I mean, children seem to be really ticklish, but adults seem to not be ticklish. I have an ongoing debate with a friend about this. My position is that adults are not ticklish, at least not the way kids are.

I haven’t had a tickle in years!

By: payrolldude

payrolldude — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:28:04 +0000

I have heard (& believe) that the only person(s) that can tickle you are those that you do not trust.

By: Meli

Meli — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:17:23 +0000

Yeah, I’m another one — I can tickle my own feet. When I do so, though, it’s less of the normal automatic funny-noises-and-flying-limbs response and more of an intensely uncomfortable feeling. (Also, for the record, I’m not autistic.)

I wonder if the “you can’t tickle yourself” thing was ever really widely researched, or was instead just assumed as a “common fact”?

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:35:04 +0000

For some people, there’s a degree in which tickling purely psychological too, where the fear or anticipation of getting tickled triggers the feeling. Similiar to how it’s possible to train oneself to will an unticklishness in their body.

Also: there’s a famous old french play about a mime who tickles themself to death called Mimique.