Textures and your Love/Hate's

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Love
Fur (of any sort, though I prefer faux for a few reasons such as cost and animals involved in real)
Chinchilla fur (I have a pet chinchilla named Munchie)
Putty/Play Doh textures
Anything silky and smooth
My baby ball python, Orion; you can feel and see his muscles contracting and squeezing around your hand (I also have a habit of picking at the loose skin when he's having a difficult shed)

Hate
Scouring pads (or anything rough and scratchy)
Anything greasy/dirty/gritty
Velvet, when rubbed the wrong way

Love
Hard, smooth surfaces.
Rough, abbrasive surfaces.
Silly putty.
Playing with zips.


Hate
Velvet (with a passion! It makes me physically cringe and makes my teeth go all fuzzy feeling and sends shivers down my spine).

(Just a little added extra for the things I am uncomfortable with but feel compelled to feel)
The polyester woolen jumpers I had to wear as part of my school uniform - I hated them almost as much as velvet, but I couldn't stop rubbing them and chewing on the sleeves, which only made it worse, which only made me chew more etc etc....

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THINGS I LIKE
Parasaurolophus, Plesiosaurs, Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Music, Tuna, Chocolate milk, Oreos, Blue things

Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
....And Nunchucks are my friends.

Love
My computer keys and touch pad
My hair just after it is cleaned, blown dry and straightened (I stim with it, even if it is not clean)
Flannel (I sleep with it all year round)
Cotton - tighter weave the better)
My youngest daughter's face
My long haired cat, Gizmo
Hermit crab legs crawling on me
Hershey's milk chocolate kisses (although the taste isn't the greatest, the feel is heaven as they melt in my mouth)
Thick cool liquids (drinking)
Pure silk
smooth polished metals
Smooth polished stones
Warm clothes (that usually feel good) just out of the dryer
Room temp water (drinking only)
Brushes with the rubber tips on the bristles
My sax keys
My daughter's trumpet valves (feeling them pressing down, not up)
Piano keys (on a good piano, again, pressing down)

Hate
Wool
Polyester (and most mixes)
WATER (I hate water. It is evil, but necessary)
dust
chalk (except loose)
my hairbrush now that the kids have removed the rubber caps
Paper when touched with dry or dusty skin

sounds To me, sounds are a texture, you just feel them with your ears and body
Trumpet (although I love it too)
Notes out of key
My alarm clock
My telephone

love:
roughly sanded wood or wood with a matte laquer
old paper
cross stitch
pushing stiff buttons(lifts, keyboards, typewritters, etc)
emery cloth/glass paper with a grade lower than a hundred.
hot sandstone
pillows
cat fur rubbed either way.
cacti
wet marble
3d tarzos
printed or typewritten letters.

hate:
lace
black boards after they have been worn down
smooth paper
sticky anything
satin
velvet
suede

LOVE

Silk
Cotton
Lotion
Denim
Mud
Dirt
Sand
Anything else rocky
Glass
Cold things
Cat fur
Feathers
Soft Leather
Smooth, black surfaces

HATE

Embroidered (I think I spelled it wrong?) fabrics
Sequins
The sewing line on the toes of socks
Nail Polish
Nail polish remover (really bad smell)
Yarn (but I love knitting )
Newspaper
Shoelaces
Bare feet on carpet

Love
tarmac (apparently stroking the road is weird)
tree bark
water
fur
ribbons
beards

Hate
damp fingers (Pretty much anything feels horrible after washing up, but nothing makes me cringe quite as much as when my damp fingertips brush each other. Horrible.)
velour
suede
grease
sticky things
furry leaves

love

rocks in their native setting, unpolished
sunlight on my skin
art paper, especially handmade paper
wool, cotton, linen, especially patterned besides (in pleasing colors)
old splintery wood (except to look at)
animal fur (except when pungently stinking)
string, yarn, rope (except sticky)
rusted iron, verdigris'd bronze
brushed aluminum
that kind of woven stuff that used to cover the front of stereo speakers
St Augustine grass, the taller the better
where different kinds of plants overlap
a fresh stretched canvas, with or without gesso
suede
wire of coat hanger size or thicker
copper (except as wire), pewter
bricks, especially old ones that are starting to get a little crumbly
brownies, bagels
yogurt mixed with granola
pencil erasers, especially big green rectangular ones
mimosa bark
unglazed ceramics & porcelain; raku pottery
hard plastic after it has aged & gotten scratched from wear
clouds of every kind
damp sand that is firm
human skin that is neither sticky nor too pebbly
piano keys

hate

most slick, slippery surfaces
air blowing on me, at any speed
gravel, dry sand, mud (especially clayey mud)
polyester clothing
fiberglass "angel hair"
monofilament
old smearable 60's photocopies (but i like the smell)
piles of clothing, towels, etc
food left over or spilled over from the plate
moving insects, especially many of them
posterboard, most cardboard
cacti (except in pictures)
shellacked & lacquered surfaces (except, for some reason, varathane)
concrete
thin wire, especially in tangles
chrome
chewing gum
pasta (soft)
stringy glue
tire rubber (although it may be the smell i object to)
holly bush
evergreens (though i love the smell)--pine tree (every part of it!), cedars
styrofoam (even before i knew about its environmental legacy)
gummy plastic
human landscapes that bespeak neglect
melting & liquefying substances
snow in every state
rocks that have been shaped and/or polished
salads with oily dressing (i don't even like to see them)
animal whiskers

i am of two minds about velvet.

add to my list of hated stuff ALUMINUM CANS> dont know why i just do hate them

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Its funny how what some of us love others hate.

Hate:
Smooth rocks
Sand
The string in stringy carrots,
Little fibers you find in some potatoes

Love:
Head Hair
metal
bluetack

think everyone hates sand... at least in its dry form.

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Have never given it too much thought but I guess I could try.

Love:
Generally slightly scratchy stuff, like sandpaper, or my face after I've shaved. Like fur but that may just be more so because I like my cats. Enjoy playing with sand, either wet or dry - even tried to eat it once in kindergarten. Soft cottonish stuff like blankets or sweatshirts are nice.

Hate:
A lot harder to think about. Guess I don't like heat if that counts, especially accompanied by strong sunlight. Can't stand being itchy or itchy clothes, nor any with long sleeves. Hate tags, too. Don't like anything too tight, either.

Love -

hot water in showers
fuzzy cotton
the texture of buttons surprisingly i collect 227 of them
cat furr
chocolate - carmel filling
loud music but not like nightclubbing music that is loud



Hate-
raw chicken and pasta sauce
motorcyle sounds and sirens most of the time Sezzy

Love
Cotton
Chalk (like from charcoal pencils, sticks soft pastel sticks)
Soft plastic
Sticky Glue
Stones and Pebbles
Crunchy Food
The feel of sketch paper
Ridges

Hate
Gooey things like slime
(partial to yogurt)
sandpaper
chalky DRINKS



That is all I can think of at the moment.

Love
Cold pillows
Cold metal
Cotton
Hair
Skin

Hate
STYROFOAM (literally sends chills down my spine when I touch it)
Anything sticky or greasy
Wool fabrics
Sweat
Old-fashioned chalkboards

Love:
When I go into a store I like to touch some of the merchandise or pick it up to look at it.

Love wearing soft t-shirts and love soft blankets and down comforters.

Hate:
Mainly itchy clothes or itchy tags in clothes.