I wore gloves on Friday to work

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I normally wear gloves all day at home because otherwise I bite my fingers too much. Friday I wore them to work because the stress of working again has made me bite them even more, and I thought perhaps wearing gloves would be less weird for my co-workers than seeing a grown adult woman biting her fingers. I haven't told anyone there that I am high-functioning autistic.

No one said anything. I think I might wear them again on Tuesday.

My goal is to make gloves high-fashion so that in 2 years everyone will be wearing gloves, then maybe I can fit in. Anyone work for Versace or Vera Wang?

I think that is great, you wearing your gloves to work and getting by doing it.

Sounds like it took some strength of character to do so!

So what do the gloves look like?
Do you have more than one pair?

I wear medical exam gloves at work but I don't always like wearing them

I try to imagine what it's like to chew one's fingernails and I just can't picture it in my mind.
I do other things like rake my thumbnail or a fingernail back-and-forth across something if I'm doing it due to stress or mindless obsessiveness.

Do you bite back to the nailbed? I imagine that would be so sore after a while.

I have a white pair and a "bath bubble" pair, I wore the white ones as I thought they would look more normal. I also have a bunch of white work gloves but they don't have the fine fingertips I need to type.

I don't actually bite my fingernails, usually. I actually bite my fingers. It's gross, I know, and I've been doing it since I was a kid. They actually bleed sometimes, and it hurts like hell, but I can't stop unless I wear gloves.

It was nice when I worked in the food industry and I could wear gloves all day long without looking like a freak, but now I've got a desk job so I had to find some other solution.

I wouldn't say biting your fingers is gross, but having bleed because of it is concerning.
But then, you've apparantly been dealing with this for a while already.

I really like you idea of wearing the gloves as a fashion statement!

I only know about Isotoners, as far as dress-up gloves.

Can you afford to get different pairs?
Would you decorate the more plain ones with stitching, embroidery, studs, etc.?

How about finger cots?
We have some here at the hospital that clerks wear sometimes to keep their fingers clean or if they have an open spot in their skin, since in a hospital there's always somebody's body fluid being passed around.

Heck yes! I already wear gloves everyday for most of the day because I am an obsessive hand washer.

Why would you need to make gloves high fashion? Aren't they already?
It gets a little hot for gloves in the summer, though. Peak glove-wearing weather is gone where I live, so I sadly must wait for the air to cool and the leaves to fall. I do enjoy a good pair of gloves.

I had to look up finger cots, I had never heard of them before. Unfortunately I think they kinda look like little finger condoms... I think I'll stick with gloves.

I used to wear gloves obsessively, there wasn't really a reason I just knew I couldn't not wear them.
No one seemed to ever comment very much except to ask occasionally where I got my gloves.
I think when you are really aware of something you expect others to be but others, particularly NTs it seems just...don't seem to notice and sometimes are totally oblivious.
I tried to bring gloves back, I wanted some of those long ones they used to wear in the Victorian days and before but they had really skinny arms so it wasn't possible.
You can do it though, bring gloves back!

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am a glove wearer to for circulation and flesh biting problems.

gloves are a help with lessening severity of bites,but problem am have with them is they quickly tear up as they're not designed for tactile heavy autistics,have gone through many different types and full fingered ones have to be taken off during a lot of things,eg,they wont work on the tracking pad of a laptop,they make it hard to type etc. am use very tough fingerless wheel chair gloves,they are a tough outer material,have a lot of middle layers and have a final soft and smooth layer underneath,they also have lots of padding on the outside but are easy enough to wear all day and do anything with.

am thinking of designing a pair just for autistics/people with SID type problems,that uses all the right materials and are super strong.

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:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

Well, you can tell everyone... "Just can't be too careful now-a-days!" or "You never know who's fingers have been on your keyboard and where they were before that!"





That's a really cool idea! Honestly... I think it's neat! :thumbsup: