# Are you ticklish? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494 "2013-03-09T18:37:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/1 "2013-03-09T18:37:57Z")
And would be the fate of anyone who tried to tickle you? For me- Yes… …and, they probably wouldn’t be seen again. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/2 "2013-03-09T18:42:28Z")
Very, very ticklish. All who tickle me shall perish. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/3 "2013-03-09T19:25:32Z")
No not very. After a while of a person trying to tickle me unsucessfully, it’s quite irritating/sometimes mildly painful. Same as if someone just kept poking you in the same spot. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/4 "2013-03-09T19:33:39Z")
I’m not actually sure if I’m ticklish, because for all of my life, I’ve hated being tickled so much that people have, by now, generally learned not to try to tickle me. (It helps that I tend to shout and scream rather than laugh when tickled.) ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/5 "2013-03-09T22:24:28Z")
Not at all ticklish. I had older brothers and learned not to be ticklish early on. Trying to tickle me would earn one only a resigned sigh. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/6 "2013-03-09T22:48:35Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > Not at all ticklish. I had older brothers and learned not to be ticklish early on. Trying to tickle me would earn one only a resigned sigh. Same with me. I was the youngest, so my siblings would tickle me (we didn’t have cable). I eventually learned to turn it off. If I concentrated, I was able to stop from being ticklish. I had to learn this for survival. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/7 "2013-03-09T22:49:29Z")
Yes, very much so. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/8 "2013-03-09T23:14:10Z")
Terribly ticklish. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Conqueror_Worm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/9 "2013-03-10T01:42:31Z")
Not at all. In fact, I like the sensation of having my feet tickled, even as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/10 "2013-03-10T01:52:23Z")
Quite ticklish. Anyone who tickles me will suffer a prolonged bout of squealing, shrieking and generally un-masculine behavior. Tickling my wife, OTOH, results in instantaneous death for the perpetrator. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/11 "2013-03-10T02:02:10Z")
Not ticklish, to the disbelief of various grandkids, who keep trying, to no avail. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/12 "2013-03-10T16:04:47Z")
Not at all. Never. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/13 "2013-03-10T20:02:00Z")
Fiendishly, horribly ticklish, perhaps in part because I get very little human physical contact. My ex could barely touch me without tickling me. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/14 "2013-03-10T20:53:38Z")
I’m unique (in more ways than one) – Sometimes I am and sometimes I’m not – and – Only in certain spots that move slightly. It doesn’t hurt, so it doesn’t really bother me - but it can ruin a good mood. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/15 "2013-03-10T22:03:14Z")
All these admissions to ticklishness and no power to tickle! Here is where almost everyone, even the least ticklish, can be tickled: the roof of your mouth. You can even tickle yourself there, give it a try! Me, I’m medium ticklish. But not the soles of my feet. I don’t have proper feeling in my feet, and have never been ticklish there. My SO giggles if you waggle your fingers in his direction, MUHAHA such power! ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/16 "2013-03-11T00:34:50Z")
Yes, very. If someone tickles me, my reaction is to scream and slap them away, fairly violently. If they continue I will start crying. Tickling is awful. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/17 "2013-03-11T01:15:04Z")
Sometimes, I can usually control it. Occasionally, it has come in handy as a precursor to…other handsy activities. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/18 "2013-03-11T01:39:42Z")
Very very very ticklish. And I get to laughing so hard that I’m helpless, so no negative consequences for the ticklers. Until I have a chance to calm back down and plot my revenge. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/19 "2013-03-11T06:12:07Z")
Am I the only one who feels the more you respond to tickling, the more ticklish you become? If you resist, it’s not so bad. ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494/20 "2013-03-11T07:42:32Z")
Usually not ticklish at all, but at certain times, and in some places, can be. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ticklish/652494.md?page=2)