Do people really like wool on their skin?

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I can remember my mother telling me "It's typical" when I said I don't like wool because it feels scratchy. Did she mean us or everyone?

I am asking this because I keep seeing aspies making a big deal about themselves not liking wool as if it's an AS thing. So it made me start to think of my mother really meant us or everyone when she said "it's typical?"

Last edited by Spokane_Girl on 14 May 2008, 12:56 am, edited 2 times in total.

On pulling the wool over one's skin topic

My mother had a sadistic streak, and tried to make me wear an itchy suit wool dress, unlined, when I was 13 years old. I tore the thing to shreds to get it off me, and did I get a beating for it. But I adamantly refused to wear wool again.

I'm fine with wool. In the winter, I always wear these thick wool socks (I think they're wool...). They do get itchy, and I end up scratching my legs like crazy every once in a while, but I'm pretty sure that happens to everyone.

I have some wool socks for use in winter weather.
I can't wear them without some sort of liner sock of a different material.
The wool just makes me itch like crazy. It does keep my feet warm in sub-zero temps though.

Wearing wool with a cotton shirt under it is fine. Wearing wool directly on the skin (other than my arms) is torture.

Last edited by Asterisp on 13 May 2008, 2:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well I hate wool, I don't want it near me, even over other clothes, at the same time im always cold and my psychologist goes on and on and on and on about wearing wool and how warm it is and how nice it is on the skin etc. Then my grandma goes on about it and my Granny I just have to try and never mention im cold.

So from that experience I would say that generally people like wool and Aspies and people with sensory issues (im undiagnosed) tend not to because it hurts and itches and is generally horrible. That's stereotyped though I don't mean the stereotypes.

How do you feel about Cashmere?

Last edited by craola on 13 May 2008, 2:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I will never wear wool socks unless I can fit another pair of socks under them. I remember I was at Ross and I found this sweater I liked and I tried it on but it was itchy as hell so I took it off and looked at the tag and saw it was made with wool but not 100%. So I put my shirt back on and the sweater to see if it still fit with something under it and it did so I bought the sweater. I would have not gotten the sweater if it was tight on me with the shirt under it.

I can wear wool. I don't particularly like it, but I can wear it. The real problem is, I can't wear most of what the newest clothes are made of today. Super-artificial textures drive me mad and I cannot wear anything made of it. I don't even know the names of all these textures. I just don't buy them.

I also hate... I think it is silk (I'm not sure). Not very new and artificial, but it also makes me nauseas.

Are you saying you can wear it on your bare skin?

hate wool, too itchy, and as a child hated jeans too - now I wear them with cotton leggings.

I can't stand wool. I've never been able to wear it except with at least one layer underneath, and usually two because some of those little prickly hairs always come through the first layer and get to my skin anyway. I have a beloved 1970s ski sweater that is wool, but I would love to be able to wear it in the spring and fall (I can't because it's too warm then to wear a thick layer or a double layer underneath it).
One thing, however: merino wool is great; it hasn't got near the scratchiness of regular wool. I haven't tried it on bare skin, but I can wear it with only a very thin layer underneath it.

Some NT and AS are alergic to wool. I can't even wear blends with out getting a rash but if "most" people couldn't wear wool, then they would stop making things out of it....someones buying it cause they keep making the stuff and their are now other options that are just as warm as wool.

I can only wear rayon, cotton, silk, and rarely acetate. I marvel that no one else seems to notice how itchy it is. So is linen. Some of the polyesters make my skin crawl.

I second that. I hate wool. My Granny used to make those wooly clothings for us. Handmade, with all her love but I couldn't stand it. But Merino feels cool for me, even on bare skin.

The only thing i like thats wool is socks. And i wear those over other socks (because i like warmth) so i dont really feel it on my bare skin. Most types of wool itches and i know i hated it as a kid. Its gotten a bit better today, but i really prefer cotton. Almost everything i wear is cotton.

No wool for me. I think there's a conspiracy by sheep to torture me.

Merino wool is better, but I still have to wear something cotton underneath. Regular scratchy wool? I can't stand it even with a cotton shirt underneath- the wool fibers poke through and torture me. Good thing I live in CA.

I have a LOT of sensory issues with clothing. I also have very sensitive skin. For years, all I would wear is jeans and t-shirts- 100% cotton with the tags cut out and any tag material frayed so it was soft. I started getting a rash from the seams in my jeans- on my thighs. It was painful. I now wear cotton chinos usually and still wear t-shirts. I have to wash my pants about 5 times before I can wear them- the thread and fabric on the seams needs to get softer. Crisp cotton shirts bug me too. I can't stand anything synthetic. I feel like I'm suffocating in rayon, polyester, polarfleece, etc.