What is your touch-related sensory nightmare

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Notebooks covered in that sort of crisscrossy fabric sets my teeth on edge. I don't know what it's called. Tried to google it and got nothing.

Synthetic bath sponges

Nylon clothing

Wool. I can't wear pure wool, it makes me itch like crazy.

Polyester sheets. Must be pure cotton or my teetch are set on edge. Does anyone remember those nasty nylon sheets you used to get in the 70s. I hated them.

Basically any kind of plastic masquerading as clothing material. I have to have some cotton in there or it drives me crazy.

The touch pad on my laptop. I had to get a mouse.

I hate getting the cuffs of my clothes wet when doing the dishes. It makes me feel disgusting.

Rain on my face.

Being too hot.

I cannot stand when people pet or stroke me. My mother and my grandmother would do this and it was a living hell.

Oh and velvet and felt..

If it's too hot or too cold. I'm super sensitive to temperature, otherwise I get hot-cold chills. Frankly, I don't like the feeling of my own skin being on me.

Wool is definitely an irritant.

I talked with a friend who is a family practitioner and I asked him what percentage of adults he had observed who were severely ticklish since he performs a routine abdominal probe with his fingers. He though a minute and then said that it was probably less than 1-2%.

Fleece, wool, or otherwise fuzzy fabric.
Elastic ankle bands on pants.
Heavy pants.
Long socks.
Tight socks.
Socks with lumps in the stitching.
Small shoes.
Long sleeves.
Gloves.
Hugs.
Other people's skin.
Wet hair.
The metal on the outside of trailers.

I used to be very averse to the touch of other people's skin, too - being in close proximity with other kids with their arms and legs brushing against mine was enough to make me shudder. I had a Sesame Street VHS when I was little that had a Joe Raposo musical number with kids playing on a beach and the song went something like, "Skin, skin, beeeeaaaauuutifuuulll skiiiiiiiin!" and it just. made. me. CRINGE!

I think that's also why I didn't like washing my hands when I was little....sometimes my mom and teachers would "help" me by soaping my hands up and rubbing my hands in theirs, and the slimy texture of the soap, their hands/fingernails slipping around and tickling mine...UGH! I wash my hands all the time now, and the texture of soap no longer bothers me, but when I was a kid: Soap+skin touching me=Yuck!

Other people's skin touching mine still irks me somewhat, especially if it takes me by surprise....not if I'm the one to initiate it, though.

Hairs. Get Them Off!!

Seams, especially on my socks and stiff tags. even the soft tags will get stiff and scratchy on the corners after a while. Don't like chalk either but I only touch that once in a blue moon.

And don't even get me started on under wire bras and lace and any kind of panties but granny panties. No boy shorts or thongs.

Tags. Bugs. Stuff in my lap aside from inanimate functional ones such as my laptop. Fuzzy prickly clothes. Tight clothes. Seams. Underwired undergarments even though I (thank god) don't really need anything more than a sports bra.
Wet clothes. Wet socks. Wet shoes. Animal licks. Tickling...THAT is enough to send me into a melt/shutdown.

I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, and any touch to my right shoulder blade or to my neck triggers intense burning pain. Tags on clothing irritate me to no end as does any touching that invades my space without permission (such as someone running up to me and giving me a hug). I try really hard not to react when these things happen, but I usually can't stop my body from stiffening in response.

I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, and any touch to my right shoulder blade or to my neck triggers intense burning pain. Tags on clothing irritate me to no end as does any touching that invades my space without permission (such as someone running up to me and giving me a hug). I try really hard not to react when these things happen, but I usually can't stop my body from stiffening in response.

Dusty smooth concrete under my bare feet is akin to fingernails scraping a blackboard

I can't have anything between my toes.
If a cord or string gets in there I jump several feet in the air and my foot curls up until I remove it.
I even have trouble looking at people's feet if they're wearing flip-flops, just seeing it is physically uncomfortable for me.
Even a toe tag on a corpse in a TV show triggers the reaction.

I hate chalk.

I also have this weird fear that my toes will get tangled in my sheets while I sleep =/

my parents water glasses when they are still warm from the dishwasher, because at that point they squeak on my skin, it's a like the blackboard and fingernails thing.