Must wear socks at all times, socks must not flop at the toe or they are sent to die a horrible death.
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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Floppy socks are to me a clearer sign of degeneracy than if I caught someone mixing poop with alcohol to make the poop last longer.
Well... You certainly have a way with words... Some might characterize it as "slightly nauseating," but that still counts as 'a way' if you ask me.
I have 'i feel other people's piercings' sensory issues.
Look, she’s still not gonna let you feel her boobs.
As in, you feel compelled to touch other people's piercings, or you feel a sensation like you have the same piercing on your body?
Looking other people’s piercings definitely gives me a slight sympathetic pain in the same spot on my body.
If it's any help, my nipple piercings Were Not painful :3
I get a similar thing with scars, not a pain exactly but an unpleasant "feeling" in the same area.
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Piercing, scars or any other noticeable thing like that in someone else gives me a sensation on the same spot on my body if I see/recognize/notice it. If someone gets punched, kicked or injured in a movie or such I also can get a similar sensation but to a lower degree if I frame it in my mind that it is fake, if someone visibly breaks a bone or gets injured in a sports game then that has a much more distinct, acute and entirely unpleasant sensation. I don’t watch much sports to keep that from happening.
I believe it is a type of synesthesia called Mirror Touch.
I sort of assumed this was common. If its not, that explains how some people can watch AFV or boxing and not feel the icky tingles and nausea.
Yeah, I think it is common in some regards.
The current prevailing theory on how synesthesia happens in the human brain says that everyone is born with these connections but in early development the synaptic connections are sheared or closed off. Like how your brain will close off bad memories or certain emotions for trauma victims. It is believed to be a similar mechanism. The connection is still there but it is shut down and inaccessible. When people take hallucinogens and see colors or geometric shapes in their vision that is the drug reopening those closed synaptic connections temporarily.
The degree in which synaptic shearing happens or which synaptic connections get sheared are different for every person. So there could be, like, a bell curve, where some people have more connections throughout their life than others but the majority tend to group towards the middle of the curve. For mirror touch, and several other types of synesthesia, it tends to be a bit of a spectrum of those who don’t experience it to those who experience it acutely. Even then there are those who may experience it internally, like intellectually know there is a sensation and those who have some sort of physical reaction. Synesthesia presents itself in wildly different ways among those with the condition. There are many triggers and many different kinds of responses. If you have one type you are 50% likely to have 2 or 3 different types of synesthesia.
There are two main tranches that people with synesthesia fall into in regards to the affects of synesthesia; people either think everyone has the same thing and so they don’t talk about it or, once they do talk about it, discover not everyone experiences the same thing they do, or not to the degree in which they do. If the synesthetic response is strong, hard to ignore and not something people are used to hearing about then the synesthete (a person with synesthesia) tends to not talk about their condition due to fear of being ostracized or sent to a psychiatrist and etc.
I have Emotion>Color Synesthesia, along with several other types (including mirror touch). So my emotions present as colors projected into my vision. When talking about it as a kid I was sent to a psychiatrist as my parents thought I was making it up or crazy. I was put on anti-depressants which, surprise surprise, dulled my emotions and made the emotional>color synesthesia less pronounced but still there. Emotion wasn’t considered as a “sense” in the traditional meaning so it took a long time for me to figure out that it was synesthesia and how mine worked. Only in the later years of the 2000s did synesthesia start to come back into scientific research circles and with the internet it made it possible for edge cases, like myself, to start making contact with each other.
If you want to learn more about it then the book from 2009 called “Wednesday is Indigo Blue” is a great starting point and kinda spearheaded synesthesia coming back into public discourses. It is not a long book, gives a good overview of the condition and its many variations but is also approachable and not too heady.
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Only socks with shoes. Can’t wear shoes without socks, but once the shoes come off the socks have to as well.
Same. I can't wear shoes without socks, and I can't wear socks without shoes. It's a both or neither situation.
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Socks are required at all times, especially indoors, unless showering or in bed. No socks in bed. Socks may be taken off if my feet get too hot but the socks must be left nearby to put back on, and also feet cannot touch floor. Socks nearby can only be then used to retrieve new socks as socks should never be put back on once removed unless in an emergency such as getting too hot.
Ideally said socks are then inside slippers to provide additional insulation from evil floor textures, but no slippers without socks. Also socks can never be pure white, that is disgusting, socks must be ideally black, but dark is fine as long as not majority white fabric. Socks must be tight enough to not move, but also not too tight as to cause discomfort. Also that inside seam near the toes must never be noticeable. If it is, those are coming off immediately and getting thrown away.
Boy this sounds insane when I type out all my rules…
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..........neither? Why do people keep asking how autistic my ADD is? Seriously.
I prefer just wearing socks with no shoes when I play drums, so I can feel the pedal, and without them my feet will be cold on the metal. Is that what you mean sensory issues?
It's not a sensory issue - I just like wearing socks. Not everything needs to be pathologized.
But do you get unexplainable discomfort when you aren't wearing socks? That's the sensory issue. If you don't get that, then it's just a preference.
you're in an adhd community, the assumption is that it is indeed a sensory issue.
I might be a person with ADHD in a ADHD community but that doesn't mean that I need to view everything through that lens. ADHD explains many things in my life but not all things. It might be a sensory issue for some but I'm talking about myself here. Me disagreeing with a meme is not an attack on your identity.
It’s not a sensory issue - I just like wearing socks.
This part feels like you talking about yourself, and everyone agrees.
Not everything needs to be pathologized.
People are taking this as an assertion that sock preference should not be pathologized and cannot be related to ADHD.
Clearly not what you meant, but the phrasing you used is ambiguous enough to not differentiate between "not everything about myself is pathologized" vs "please stop pathologizing everything"
Socks all the time. All the time. all the fucking time. If socks didn't get wet in the shower I'd wear them in there.
Edit: actually, thinking about it, wet socks are probably worse than anything. Like buzzing insects make my brain itchy and my spine tickle, but wet socks do something far far far worse.
Neither. Must wear socks when in the mood for socks.
Always wearing socks unless I’m bathing. No exceptions. Even at the beach. Even in the water. The socks don’t come off.
The first time my now wife saw me take off my socks she had a freak out like she didn’t believe they’d actually come off. Like watching someone remove their own skin.
I go through socks like nobody’s business. Recently upgraded to crew socks to get more durability.
As a no socks gang member, this is horrifying lol
You’re like a foot never-nude!
Do the wet socks at the beach not bother you? I hate the feeling of wet socks.
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Socks bad, shoes bad
They are feet prisons.
Bare feet club represent.
We rally against the evil places that require shoes to enter. Boo them!
Socks on all times, sometimes thigh highs cause I'm homosexual like that B)
I have socks can only be worn inside out sensory issues. The seam is evil. The seam cannot touch my toes. Get the seam away from me, the seam is like nails on a chalkboard, if I feel the seam all I can think about is the seam, the wiggly, stupid, always there, annoying, ever-present seam. Fuck you, seam.
But if I'm at home I'm naked. Just straight up.like, not no socks, no clothing at all
Oh, I've never tried them inside out...
Then you've never lived.
Also are you that poem for your sprog? From the place that shall not be named?
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Shoes require socks, that’s fine. If I’m not wearing shoes the socks come off. This makes going to friends homes sometimes awful if I’m wearing just socks. Sweaty prisons
Have you tried wool or cotton socks? I'm talking socks with NO polyester or anything else like it in there. It might help with that damp feeling.
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What about "socks must have broken elastic", "socks must be tight" and "both socks must be the same"?
Socks must be tight and go as high up the calf as possible.
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Any "underwear sensory issues" folk in the house? I do not mean that in any sort of sexy way but in a "dear God get it off me" way.
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Socks suck
Socks ~~suck~~rock
FTFY
I have "beaten as a child because I complained about my socks too often and now it doesn't matter if I wear them or not because it makes me equally anxious either way" sensory issues
Avoid at all costs, literally
I wear sandals year round
I guess I don't have this one. I don't like wet socks. I'm pretty sure few do.
I've worn these sandals pretty much exclusively for the past ~7 years. I'm on my third pair.
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Socks all the time..but not the ones with stitches on the toes! That's unbearable!
Depends lol, I sometimes hate the feel of socks and other times I need the extra warmth lol
Yes.
I have must wear socks at all times UNTIL I'm suddenly all at once done with them then I MUST take them off
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