Pencils

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I hate pencils. When I use them, I a sharp pain shivers through my body. Does anyone else experience this?

No, but I have a similar distaste towards chalk and chalkboards. Eeek, makes me cringe!

As do I. I think that is very common, though. It is a terrible sensation.

I hate pencils, chalk and chalkboards.

I will never forget the first time I took the SAT, it was in a really noisy room. The desks were those really old desks with loose wooden tops that would squeak loudly every time someone moved. That, and the sound of the pencils scratching on paper, were so loud it felt like the pencils were scratching right inside my head. I couldn't concentrate and I got so frustrated, I was afraid I might fly into a rage. I kept looking around wondering why the noise wasn't bothering anyone else. That was still several months before I figured out I had ADHD.

I can't stand to write with a pencil. It makes me feel like my skin is crawling all over. Even worse to hear an entire room full of pencils scratching.

I also don't like pencils...though I do better with 'colored' pencils or the big 'clunky' artists' graphites. ...The regular pencils get dull or break too often. Whenever 'forced' to use pencils, I keep my own sharpener with me so I can re-make a point as often as I want without having to repeatedly trudge to the room-provided sharpener.

I only use mechanical pencils, I hate the regular ones. I dislike chalk too.

I second that about mechanical pencils lol...I haven't used a "normal" pencil in years! Pencils...pfft who needs em'?!

I like pencils quite a bit for many reasons but I do know what you mean. I have trouble with other 'transferred' textures too. Even with gloves on I don't do 'slimy' well especially anything slimy and clingy - like raw egg. I've got the same problem with chalk - in art supplies they have chalk pencils - I can't even use those becasue it's like I can still feel the texture of it as it moves on the paper.

I think lots of folks here have texture issues of some sort or another.

I snorted lead in high school.

I like using quality wooden pencils (cheap ones tend to break more often).

A descent sharpener is also essential.

I like pencils. I normally use mechanical pencils.

I remember when I was in the 1st grade (in the early 1970s) I collected pencils I found lying abandoned in the hallways (and ones that I had brought from home). I had a lot of them in my private desk---not bothering anyone. One morning I found my pencils gone. I told the teacher and she said she took them from me because I didn't need them all. That wasn't right---and to this day I know it isn't right. That was my property---it was my collection. I maintained proper conduct and high grades---so therefore the pencil collection was not a hindrance to me. And if she thought she was correcting my "pencil behavior" somehow, she should see me now---I still collect them and have amassed a huge collection of them. This teacher's actions resulted in mistrust. If she had proper reason to take away my pencils she should have conferred with me first and allowed me the opportunity to remove my pencils from the school (to my home).