Piercing, scars or any other noticeable thing like that in someone else gives me a sensation on the same spot on my body if I see/recognize/notice it. If someone gets punched, kicked or injured in a movie or such I also can get a similar sensation but to a lower degree if I frame it in my mind that it is fake, if someone visibly breaks a bone or gets injured in a sports game then that has a much more distinct, acute and entirely unpleasant sensation. I don’t watch much sports to keep that from happening.
I believe it is a type of synesthesia called Mirror Touch.
The current prevailing theory on how synesthesia happens in the human brain says that everyone is born with these connections but in early development the synaptic connections are sheared or closed off. Like how your brain will close off bad memories or certain emotions for trauma victims. It is believed to be a similar mechanism. The connection is still there but it is shut down and inaccessible. When people take hallucinogens and see colors or geometric shapes in their vision that is the drug reopening those closed synaptic connections temporarily.
The degree in which synaptic shearing happens or which synaptic connections get sheared are different for every person. So there could be, like, a bell curve, where some people have more connections throughout their life than others but the majority tend to group towards the middle of the curve. For mirror touch, and several other types of synesthesia, it tends to be a bit of a spectrum of those who don’t experience it to those who experience it acutely. Even then there are those who may experience it internally, like intellectually know there is a sensation and those who have some sort of physical reaction. Synesthesia presents itself in wildly different ways among those with the condition. There are many triggers and many different kinds of responses. If you have one type you are 50% likely to have 2 or 3 different types of synesthesia.
There are two main tranches that people with synesthesia fall into in regards to the affects of synesthesia; people either think everyone has the same thing and so they don’t talk about it or, once they do talk about it, discover not everyone experiences the same thing they do, or not to the degree in which they do. If the synesthetic response is strong, hard to ignore and not something people are used to hearing about then the synesthete (a person with synesthesia) tends to not talk about their condition due to fear of being ostracized or sent to a psychiatrist and etc.
I have Emotion>Color Synesthesia, along with several other types (including mirror touch). So my emotions present as colors projected into my vision. When talking about it as a kid I was sent to a psychiatrist as my parents thought I was making it up or crazy. I was put on anti-depressants which, surprise surprise, dulled my emotions and made the emotional>color synesthesia less pronounced but still there. Emotion wasn’t considered as a “sense” in the traditional meaning so it took a long time for me to figure out that it was synesthesia and how mine worked. Only in the later years of the 2000s did synesthesia start to come back into scientific research circles and with the internet it made it possible for edge cases, like myself, to start making contact with each other.
If you want to learn more about it then the book from 2009 called “Wednesday is Indigo Blue” is a great starting point and kinda spearheaded synesthesia coming back into public discourses. It is not a long book, gives a good overview of the condition and its many variations but is also approachable and not too heady.
Considering emotions very much have a physical bodily/chemical manifestation it makes perfect sense that a synesthete could experience that. I’m sorry you had to go through all that.
Yeah, it makes sense in retrospect that emotion would be considered a sense. I have never met, still to this day, anyone else who has emotion>color but I have met other synesthetes.
I cried tears of joy once I discovered some other people writing about their experience with emotion>color for the first time. Emotion being the trigger is somewhat rare in synesthesia but color as the response is the most common of responses. My understanding and exposure to synesthesia was that it worked in conjunction with the traditional 5 senses of touch, taste, sound, sight and sound smell but that is not the case. There are spacial, emotional, personality, temperature and several others beyond that that are also considered to be a part of synesthesia now.
It is hard to classify because the responses are subjective to the individual. My color to emotion pairings are unique to me as well as how it presents in my vision though some of the color pairings are somewhat universal at a basic level.
Thanks for the sympathy but I see it as a gift. Early life sucked as it was very isolating. With my pattern recognition autistic brain that tracked body movements and emotions of others to try and mask better it made it very easy to figure out when adults or others were lying to me or just acting out of character. I had a HUD that would discolor them. I am fantastic at poker but never play with friends or family, while I can’t see their cards I know a bluff without much effort and can run the numbers in my head to make a pretty accurate guess of the probability of their hand, especially with Texas Hold’m.
The benefit, now that I don’t mask any of this as an adult is immense. I gravitate towards honest and open people. I make friends easily as I can cut through the BS but the majority of my friends I’ve had for several decades. I am very lucky to have such deep and long lasting friendships. Narcissists are a problem for me though, I take others at face value and they tend to mask their intentions well, like the antithesis of me. It is kinda weird. I have to be morally balanced in my daily life; kind, honest and fair or else my worldview gets colored in a depressing/angry/resentful or other negative tint. I can get overwhelmed during extremely distressing events and depending on how long those events last for, like a parent in decline or dying, then I can be overwhelmed by it for months or years. It’s better now that I have a more clear understanding and various coping mechanisms.
It all takes balance, like with anyone, I just feel the highs and lows more acutely because so much of my attention has to be focused on it. Once I was able to accept it, figured out how it functioned, worked on coping mechanism and sought therapy for emotional regulation then life became pretty great. Happiest I’ve ever been. Wouldn’t give any of it up for any price but it was a tough road.
It’s genetic too, part of what drove me to figure it all out and use it to my advantage was when I decided to have kids. If they got it then I needed to be able to not alienate them like I was but to help guide them in whatever way it presented in them so they could skip past the several decades I went through to get to the good parts.
Some people still think it is weird and treat me as such but that’s ok, can’t be friends with everyone.
Apologies for the info dump, it’s been one of those morning where I am avoiding doing the things I should be doing today but I figured someone might want to hear more about it in case they have similar sensory stuff going on or know someone who does. It was a comment like this in a random thread on a random forum from a random person where I discovered Emotion>Color synesthesia was a thing. Figured I’d try to pay it forward on here in case someone needs it.
My apologies- to clarify my sympathy was about being treated as needing medication for your ability to see the world differently.
Thank you for the info dump actually! I’m also autistic and getting to learn about how you experience, process and approach things has been enlightening and fascinating (in a respectful, peer-to-peer way of course).
There is certainly something to be said for both finding you’re not alone in a unique situation, and learning to embrace the way you are to navigate a better life. It’s awesome that you did all that for your kids too; they’re very lucky.
Socks are required at all times, especially indoors, unless showering or in bed. No socks in bed. Socks may be taken off if my feet get too hot but the socks must be left nearby to put back on, and also feet cannot touch floor. Socks nearby can only be then used to retrieve new socks as socks should never be put back on once removed unless in an emergency such as getting too hot.
Ideally said socks are then inside slippers to provide additional insulation from evil floor textures, but no slippers without socks. Also socks can never be pure white, that is disgusting, socks must be ideally black, but dark is fine as long as not majority white fabric. Socks must be tight enough to not move, but also not too tight as to cause discomfort. Also that inside seam near the toes must never be noticeable. If it is, those are coming off immediately and getting thrown away.
Boy this sounds insane when I type out all my rules…
Eh, not insane. Except for no socks in bed. The socks must be perfectly clean and dry to be bed socks, they cannot have touched any other surface before being worn in bed. The inside of the washing machine and the basket are ok surfaces, though.
..........neither? Why do people keep asking how autistic my ADD is? Seriously.
I prefer just wearing socks with no shoes when I play drums, so I can feel the pedal, and without them my feet will be cold on the metal. Is that what you mean sensory issues?
I might be a person with ADHD in a ADHD community but that doesn't mean that I need to view everything through that lens. ADHD explains many things in my life but not all things. It might be a sensory issue for some but I'm talking about myself here. Me disagreeing with a meme is not an attack on your identity.
It’s not a sensory issue - I just like wearing socks.
This part feels like you talking about yourself, and everyone agrees.
Not everything needs to be pathologized.
People are taking this as an assertion that sock preference should not be pathologized and cannot be related to ADHD.
Clearly not what you meant, but the phrasing you used is ambiguous enough to not differentiate between "not everything about myself is pathologized" vs "please stop pathologizing everything"
Socks all the time. All the time. all the fucking time. If socks didn't get wet in the shower I'd wear them in there.
Edit: actually, thinking about it, wet socks are probably worse than anything. Like buzzing insects make my brain itchy and my spine tickle, but wet socks do something far far far worse.
Always wearing socks unless I’m bathing. No exceptions. Even at the beach. Even in the water. The socks don’t come off.
The first time my now wife saw me take off my socks she had a freak out like she didn’t believe they’d actually come off. Like watching someone remove their own skin.
I go through socks like nobody’s business. Recently upgraded to crew socks to get more durability.
I have socks can only be worn inside out sensory issues. The seam is evil. The seam cannot touch my toes. Get the seam away from me, the seam is like nails on a chalkboard, if I feel the seam all I can think about is the seam, the wiggly, stupid, always there, annoying, ever-present seam. Fuck you, seam.
But if I'm at home I'm naked. Just straight up.like, not no socks, no clothing at all
Oh my god, I couldn't imagine right side out socks being used inside out. The pills. It would be like having hundreds of little seams always touching your toes. My head hurts just thinking about it.
Shoes require socks, that’s fine. If I’m not wearing shoes the socks come off. This makes going to friends homes sometimes awful if I’m wearing just socks. Sweaty prisons
Yeah, when I was a kid I was miserable in briefs until I learned boxers existed. I used to stretch out briefs and even partially tore them to make them slightly more comfortable to me.
I have "beaten as a child because I complained about my socks too often and now it doesn't matter if I wear them or not because it makes me equally anxious either way" sensory issues
I'm glad they work for you, but I would not buy these purely because of the pseudoscience nonsense, regardless of how comfortable they are.
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Yeah they cater to the woo-woo crunchy people because that's the demographic that is likely to discover "alternative" footwear. I met one of these people on a hike, which is why I even knew they existed.
I saw that they looked comfy and that you could run in them, so I got some.
socks just aren't practical or useful. they make walking on some floors annoying, and since I go outside in sandals/slippers (this is my sensory issue, normal shoes are never comfortable) I'd have to take them off and on frequently. I don't need the warmth where I live.
I'm a recovering indoor shoe wearer, so socks are like my harm reduction. But I'm trying to wear them (and shoes) less in the house, because I believe it's better in the long term for your feet and back muscles. At least it feels like more work to me, and so it's probably good for me.
I hate socks on my little paws. So I just don't usually wear them unless I have to go into work. I also exclusively wear bearfoot shoes because I hate when the front of my paws are scrunched up.
Both, kinda. I want to wear socks all the time but I can't stop myself from picking at them so they get holes within a few days. And I have sweaty feet so I always get lint stick between my toes, never found any sock that doesn't do that. So even though I want to wear them all the time there are enough annoyances from them to make me only wear them when I go to somewhere other than my apartment where I'll take my shoes off, like a friends place.
I took a while to toughen up my feet, did some barefoot hiking and trail running. Now it honestly doesn't bother me. You can just get in the mood that, my feet are cold and that's fine. So I guess I wear socks when I want to.
Socks at all times. The plain black ones that end right above the ankle and I change them about 3 times a day even if I've spent all day sitting at my desk.
I read about some surprising statistics over here. One of the leading causes of death: accidents at home. On top of that list: wool socks in the winter. Yeah I've slipped and fallen before, and I dread that, and I don't wear socks at home, thanks
Socks are worn for 99% of my waking hours. They only come off in specific circumstances, normally involving water.
The socks must be well-fitting and put on straight, pulled up to their natural height and tightness. I prefer socks that come halfway up my shins, and I only wear ankle socks when working out.
The socks must be a matched pair. No mixing between different colours, cuts, brands, etc.
No holes allowed; if a sock gets a hole of any size, it immediately goes in the garbage. The widowed sock goes on my dresser until an appropriate mate is made by the splitting up of another pair.
On the other hand, I never sleep in socks under any circumstances. I find I get too warm.
For me it's temperature based. I'm wearing socks unless the temperature is above 27 Celsius, at which point I'm comfortable wearing shorts and sandals.
Under 23 C my entire skin needs covering except hands & head. I cannot stand exposed skin at that point.
When it's below 5 C I wear long socks because I lose a lot of heat through they legs.
Usually socks because my feet get cold easily but they come off if it's warm and if I've swept the floor recently. Can't stand stuff sticking to my feet while I'm walking around.
I was a "socks at all times" person but then I learned my constant sock wearing was causing some minor foot problems and found love for the feeling of my feet being free of socks so now I'm strictly "socks exactly half of the time" kinda person. My family isn't sure what to make of actually seeing my bare feet from time to time now since neither they nor I ever did see my feet before very recently
I wear "toe" shoes that don't need socks most of time. The calluses on the balls of my feet sometimes get too dry and tear holes in my socks, which gets a little frustrating. I usually can't stand the sensation of most socks, but I am good with my injijis or the comfy smart wool socks for boots. I can't wear any socks to bed as they get twisted and cut off circulation. So, unless if I absolutely need them for my footwear, or it gets too cold, I am not wearing them.
Knit your own!
I recently took up knitting and knitted my first pair of socks for a friend. She loves them.
Never fucking again! What a pain! Literally, I kept tapping myself in the stomach with the double pointed needles.
While they are a US brand and are very likely out of the question for the foreseeable future, Darn Tough does those larger sizes. So, they are out there. Just need to find an non-US brand.
If anyone know a European version I'm all for it, but you see even here they sell 46-49, I mean 46 would be maybe a little tight, 49 I would swim in them!
The "normal" size gets 41-42 though, only 2 "steps".
Must wear socks at all times, socks must not flop at the toe or they are sent to die a horrible death.
Floppy socks are to me a clearer sign of degeneracy than if I caught someone mixing poop with alcohol to make the poop last longer.
Well... You certainly have a way with words... Some might characterize it as "slightly nauseating," but that still counts as 'a way' if you ask me.
I have 'i feel other people's piercings' sensory issues.
Look, she’s still not gonna let you feel her boobs.
As in, you feel compelled to touch other people's piercings, or you feel a sensation like you have the same piercing on your body?
Looking other people’s piercings definitely gives me a slight sympathetic pain in the same spot on my body.
If it's any help, my nipple piercings Were Not painful :3
I get a similar thing with scars, not a pain exactly but an unpleasant "feeling" in the same area.
Same, there's also an emotional "zing" that is unpleasant.
Piercing, scars or any other noticeable thing like that in someone else gives me a sensation on the same spot on my body if I see/recognize/notice it. If someone gets punched, kicked or injured in a movie or such I also can get a similar sensation but to a lower degree if I frame it in my mind that it is fake, if someone visibly breaks a bone or gets injured in a sports game then that has a much more distinct, acute and entirely unpleasant sensation. I don’t watch much sports to keep that from happening.
I believe it is a type of synesthesia called Mirror Touch.
I sort of assumed this was common. If its not, that explains how some people can watch AFV or boxing and not feel the icky tingles and nausea.
Yeah, I think it is common in some regards.
The current prevailing theory on how synesthesia happens in the human brain says that everyone is born with these connections but in early development the synaptic connections are sheared or closed off. Like how your brain will close off bad memories or certain emotions for trauma victims. It is believed to be a similar mechanism. The connection is still there but it is shut down and inaccessible. When people take hallucinogens and see colors or geometric shapes in their vision that is the drug reopening those closed synaptic connections temporarily.
The degree in which synaptic shearing happens or which synaptic connections get sheared are different for every person. So there could be, like, a bell curve, where some people have more connections throughout their life than others but the majority tend to group towards the middle of the curve. For mirror touch, and several other types of synesthesia, it tends to be a bit of a spectrum of those who don’t experience it to those who experience it acutely. Even then there are those who may experience it internally, like intellectually know there is a sensation and those who have some sort of physical reaction. Synesthesia presents itself in wildly different ways among those with the condition. There are many triggers and many different kinds of responses. If you have one type you are 50% likely to have 2 or 3 different types of synesthesia.
There are two main tranches that people with synesthesia fall into in regards to the affects of synesthesia; people either think everyone has the same thing and so they don’t talk about it or, once they do talk about it, discover not everyone experiences the same thing they do, or not to the degree in which they do. If the synesthetic response is strong, hard to ignore and not something people are used to hearing about then the synesthete (a person with synesthesia) tends to not talk about their condition due to fear of being ostracized or sent to a psychiatrist and etc.
I have Emotion>Color Synesthesia, along with several other types (including mirror touch). So my emotions present as colors projected into my vision. When talking about it as a kid I was sent to a psychiatrist as my parents thought I was making it up or crazy. I was put on anti-depressants which, surprise surprise, dulled my emotions and made the emotional>color synesthesia less pronounced but still there. Emotion wasn’t considered as a “sense” in the traditional meaning so it took a long time for me to figure out that it was synesthesia and how mine worked. Only in the later years of the 2000s did synesthesia start to come back into scientific research circles and with the internet it made it possible for edge cases, like myself, to start making contact with each other.
If you want to learn more about it then the book from 2009 called “Wednesday is Indigo Blue” is a great starting point and kinda spearheaded synesthesia coming back into public discourses. It is not a long book, gives a good overview of the condition and its many variations but is also approachable and not too heady.
Considering emotions very much have a physical bodily/chemical manifestation it makes perfect sense that a synesthete could experience that. I’m sorry you had to go through all that.
Yeah, it makes sense in retrospect that emotion would be considered a sense. I have never met, still to this day, anyone else who has emotion>color but I have met other synesthetes.
I cried tears of joy once I discovered some other people writing about their experience with emotion>color for the first time. Emotion being the trigger is somewhat rare in synesthesia but color as the response is the most common of responses. My understanding and exposure to synesthesia was that it worked in conjunction with the traditional 5 senses of touch, taste, sound, sight and
soundsmell but that is not the case. There are spacial, emotional, personality, temperature and several others beyond that that are also considered to be a part of synesthesia now.It is hard to classify because the responses are subjective to the individual. My color to emotion pairings are unique to me as well as how it presents in my vision though some of the color pairings are somewhat universal at a basic level.
Thanks for the sympathy but I see it as a gift. Early life sucked as it was very isolating. With my pattern recognition autistic brain that tracked body movements and emotions of others to try and mask better it made it very easy to figure out when adults or others were lying to me or just acting out of character. I had a HUD that would discolor them. I am fantastic at poker but never play with friends or family, while I can’t see their cards I know a bluff without much effort and can run the numbers in my head to make a pretty accurate guess of the probability of their hand, especially with Texas Hold’m.
The benefit, now that I don’t mask any of this as an adult is immense. I gravitate towards honest and open people. I make friends easily as I can cut through the BS but the majority of my friends I’ve had for several decades. I am very lucky to have such deep and long lasting friendships. Narcissists are a problem for me though, I take others at face value and they tend to mask their intentions well, like the antithesis of me. It is kinda weird. I have to be morally balanced in my daily life; kind, honest and fair or else my worldview gets colored in a depressing/angry/resentful or other negative tint. I can get overwhelmed during extremely distressing events and depending on how long those events last for, like a parent in decline or dying, then I can be overwhelmed by it for months or years. It’s better now that I have a more clear understanding and various coping mechanisms.
It all takes balance, like with anyone, I just feel the highs and lows more acutely because so much of my attention has to be focused on it. Once I was able to accept it, figured out how it functioned, worked on coping mechanism and sought therapy for emotional regulation then life became pretty great. Happiest I’ve ever been. Wouldn’t give any of it up for any price but it was a tough road.
It’s genetic too, part of what drove me to figure it all out and use it to my advantage was when I decided to have kids. If they got it then I needed to be able to not alienate them like I was but to help guide them in whatever way it presented in them so they could skip past the several decades I went through to get to the good parts.
Some people still think it is weird and treat me as such but that’s ok, can’t be friends with everyone.
Apologies for the info dump, it’s been one of those morning where I am avoiding doing the things I should be doing today but I figured someone might want to hear more about it in case they have similar sensory stuff going on or know someone who does. It was a comment like this in a random thread on a random forum from a random person where I discovered Emotion>Color synesthesia was a thing. Figured I’d try to pay it forward on here in case someone needs it.
*fixed a word
My apologies- to clarify my sympathy was about being treated as needing medication for your ability to see the world differently.
Thank you for the info dump actually! I’m also autistic and getting to learn about how you experience, process and approach things has been enlightening and fascinating (in a respectful, peer-to-peer way of course).
There is certainly something to be said for both finding you’re not alone in a unique situation, and learning to embrace the way you are to navigate a better life. It’s awesome that you did all that for your kids too; they’re very lucky.
Today I learned!
I raise you this: https://youtu.be/wJBULFJ9980
Only socks with shoes. Can’t wear shoes without socks, but once the shoes come off the socks have to as well.
Same. I can't wear shoes without socks, and I can't wear socks without shoes. It's a both or neither situation.
Amen dude amen
Socks are required at all times, especially indoors, unless showering or in bed. No socks in bed. Socks may be taken off if my feet get too hot but the socks must be left nearby to put back on, and also feet cannot touch floor. Socks nearby can only be then used to retrieve new socks as socks should never be put back on once removed unless in an emergency such as getting too hot.
Ideally said socks are then inside slippers to provide additional insulation from evil floor textures, but no slippers without socks. Also socks can never be pure white, that is disgusting, socks must be ideally black, but dark is fine as long as not majority white fabric. Socks must be tight enough to not move, but also not too tight as to cause discomfort. Also that inside seam near the toes must never be noticeable. If it is, those are coming off immediately and getting thrown away.
Boy this sounds insane when I type out all my rules…
Eh, not insane. Except for no socks in bed. The socks must be perfectly clean and dry to be bed socks, they cannot have touched any other surface before being worn in bed. The inside of the washing machine and the basket are ok surfaces, though.
Same; I have bed socks and house socks, and if the bed socks touch the floor anywhere outside the bed they become the new house socks
..........neither? Why do people keep asking how autistic my ADD is? Seriously.
I prefer just wearing socks with no shoes when I play drums, so I can feel the pedal, and without them my feet will be cold on the metal. Is that what you mean sensory issues?
It's not a sensory issue - I just like wearing socks. Not everything needs to be pathologized.
But do you get unexplainable discomfort when you aren't wearing socks? That's the sensory issue. If you don't get that, then it's just a preference.
you're in an adhd community, the assumption is that it is indeed a sensory issue.
I might be a person with ADHD in a ADHD community but that doesn't mean that I need to view everything through that lens. ADHD explains many things in my life but not all things. It might be a sensory issue for some but I'm talking about myself here. Me disagreeing with a meme is not an attack on your identity.
This part feels like you talking about yourself, and everyone agrees.
People are taking this as an assertion that sock preference should not be pathologized and cannot be related to ADHD.
Clearly not what you meant, but the phrasing you used is ambiguous enough to not differentiate between "not everything about myself is pathologized" vs "please stop pathologizing everything"
Neither. Must wear socks when in the mood for socks.
Socks all the time. All the time. all the fucking time. If socks didn't get wet in the shower I'd wear them in there.
Edit: actually, thinking about it, wet socks are probably worse than anything. Like buzzing insects make my brain itchy and my spine tickle, but wet socks do something far far far worse.
Always wearing socks unless I’m bathing. No exceptions. Even at the beach. Even in the water. The socks don’t come off.
The first time my now wife saw me take off my socks she had a freak out like she didn’t believe they’d actually come off. Like watching someone remove their own skin.
I go through socks like nobody’s business. Recently upgraded to crew socks to get more durability.
As a no socks gang member, this is horrifying lol
Darn Tough socks. Super durable, and lifetime warranty
Them and Bombas are my go to
That's all I wear anymore. Not continuously like OP, but it's Darn Tough or bust.
Those are the ones!
You’re like a foot never-nude!
Do the wet socks at the beach not bother you? I hate the feeling of wet socks.
Not nearly as much as my feet being touched.
Fair enough
Socks bad, shoes bad
They are feet prisons.
Bare feet club represent.
We rally against the evil places that require shoes to enter. Boo them!
I like to subvert expectations by only ever wearing one sock.
I feel like I'm in your camp, but we also hate each other.
I'll wear socks for a bit, get annoyed, take them half off, therefore I'm wearing 2 halves, thus, 1 sock.
If I take them fully off my toes get the chills
Socks on all times, sometimes thigh highs cause I'm homosexual like that B)
What about "socks must have broken elastic", "socks must be tight" and "both socks must be the same"?
Socks must be tight and go as high up the calf as possible.
Socks must not be loose, must not be too tight, must stop below ankle, and must never be matching colors
I have socks can only be worn inside out sensory issues. The seam is evil. The seam cannot touch my toes. Get the seam away from me, the seam is like nails on a chalkboard, if I feel the seam all I can think about is the seam, the wiggly, stupid, always there, annoying, ever-present seam. Fuck you, seam.
But if I'm at home I'm naked. Just straight up.like, not no socks, no clothing at all
Oh, I've never tried them inside out...
Then you've never lived.
Also are you that poem for your sprog? From the place that shall not be named?
Inside out socks is the answer! The seam truly is evil and I can't understand why no one else seems to notice.
I expect many of the "no socks" people would be happier if they just turned them inside out.
*(For anyone looking to try this, I've been told you need to start with new socks, you can't convert right-side in socks to inside-out socks.)
Oh my god, I couldn't imagine right side out socks being used inside out. The pills. It would be like having hundreds of little seams always touching your toes. My head hurts just thinking about it.
Shoes require socks, that’s fine. If I’m not wearing shoes the socks come off. This makes going to friends homes sometimes awful if I’m wearing just socks. Sweaty prisons
toe socks are the answer
Absolutely not. Not only it is a hot prison but now each toe is in solitary confinement. Not for me
Take slippers with you. I do that for some friends apartments that have cold floors
Have you tried wool or cotton socks? I'm talking socks with NO polyester or anything else like it in there. It might help with that damp feeling.
Any "underwear sensory issues" folk in the house? I do not mean that in any sort of sexy way but in a "dear God get it off me" way.
Yeah, when I was a kid I was miserable in briefs until I learned boxers existed. I used to stretch out briefs and even partially tore them to make them slightly more comfortable to me.
Opposite for me. Can't stand any kind of movement down there, everything has to be stationary.
100%
underwear is for going outside, and even then only for scenarios where I'll be around many people
Socks suck
FTFY
I have "beaten as a child because I complained about my socks too often and now it doesn't matter if I wear them or not because it makes me equally anxious either way" sensory issues
Avoid at all costs, literally
I wear sandals year round
Yes.
Depends lol, I sometimes hate the feel of socks and other times I need the extra warmth lol
I've worn these sandals pretty much exclusively for the past ~7 years. I'm on my third pair.
Site hijacks the back button, scummy
I'm glad they work for you, but I would not buy these purely because of the pseudoscience nonsense, regardless of how comfortable they are.
Yeah they cater to the woo-woo crunchy people because that's the demographic that is likely to discover "alternative" footwear. I met one of these people on a hike, which is why I even knew they existed.
I saw that they looked comfy and that you could run in them, so I got some.
I guess I don't have this one. I don't like wet socks. I'm pretty sure few do.
Socks all the time..but not the ones with stitches on the toes! That's unbearable!
Socks with shoes 100%, flip flops/thongs/sandals 0%
"Ow, that nail has pierced the bottom of my foot and I don't like it" is a sensory issue of sorts.
Do socks prevent this
If they're thick enough and the nails are small enough.
My carpet came up off the board once and exposed little nails used to pin it down. Didn't realize until I walked over it barefoot.
And now I've got the feeling of nails in my feet haunting me whenever I'm not wearing socks.
I choose to believe in sock armor
Both. If I somehow get forced into the other socks mode, I must stay in it at all costs.
I fucking hate wearing socks but ever since I got COVID my feet are always cold, so now I wear socks and still hate it.
I'm a no socks is too cold, socks is to hot, so I have to constantly be taking them off and on.
I have must wear socks at all times UNTIL I'm suddenly all at once done with them then I MUST take them off
no socks, but not as sensory issue
socks just aren't practical or useful. they make walking on some floors annoying, and since I go outside in sandals/slippers (this is my sensory issue, normal shoes are never comfortable) I'd have to take them off and on frequently. I don't need the warmth where I live.
I'm a recovering indoor shoe wearer, so socks are like my harm reduction. But I'm trying to wear them (and shoes) less in the house, because I believe it's better in the long term for your feet and back muscles. At least it feels like more work to me, and so it's probably good for me.
I have unexplainable discomfort if I'm not wearing socks. The only other person I've known to experience that is my mom, and we are both adhd.
Wear socks all the time except in bed, unless feet are icey.
I only wear socks when I have to, and then they have to match exactly. Otherwise, barefoot and flip flops as much as possible.
"Can't fucking decide" sensory issues
"I'd rather wear crocs indoors" sensory issues
I hate socks on my little paws. So I just don't usually wear them unless I have to go into work. I also exclusively wear bearfoot shoes because I hate when the front of my paws are scrunched up.
Team socks, and if I need to be productive: socks, shoes and pants must be tight. Otherwise is couch potato mode and cannot function.
Both, kinda. I want to wear socks all the time but I can't stop myself from picking at them so they get holes within a few days. And I have sweaty feet so I always get lint stick between my toes, never found any sock that doesn't do that. So even though I want to wear them all the time there are enough annoyances from them to make me only wear them when I go to somewhere other than my apartment where I'll take my shoes off, like a friends place.
Brand new socks from the package are not linty. I dislike lint, too.
depends on the socks, how hot is it today
also the "am i a goblin-halfling hybrid today, or am i feeling pretty" dilemma
yeah, like the other guy said
don't remind me of socks
IfWhen I'm not wearing socks I get foot cramps.I can’t do work without slippers on.
If I’m just sitting at my desk in socks my brain does not connect.
Used to wear no socks at all, had the stinkiest imaginable shoes, always damaged, lots of foot fungus and other feet-related health problems.
Now I'm wearing a fresh pair of sports-compression-socks every day and it's heaven for my feet.
Hobbit feet
My people
Do not remind me that socks exist
Socks for feet that are not round blobs
I took a while to toughen up my feet, did some barefoot hiking and trail running. Now it honestly doesn't bother me. You can just get in the mood that, my feet are cold and that's fine. So I guess I wear socks when I want to.
wool stirup-ankle warmers finger shoes.
socks when no braincells, unless the floor is pretty clean. then warmers or barefoot.
Natural fibers only unless sport material. Too many brands sneaking polyester and acrylic in. Sweatmakers.
It costs so to opt out of plastic...
must have same size/tension. DIY taught me such.
Socks at all times. The plain black ones that end right above the ankle and I change them about 3 times a day even if I've spent all day sitting at my desk.
I used to sleep with socks on, so there's your answer. Unwashed, smelly socks.
Yes
I read about some surprising statistics over here. One of the leading causes of death: accidents at home. On top of that list: wool socks in the winter. Yeah I've slipped and fallen before, and I dread that, and I don't wear socks at home, thanks
I somehow have both issues.
Depends on the season. Flip-flops all summer, boots (with socks) all winter.
Socks please, I have cats, cats track litter and I hate their cute little faces
I'm the exact opposite. I hate having my socks dirty and covered in hair. I'd rather wash it off my feet because I find it easier. 😅
Socks are oppression from society.
Socks are worn for 99% of my waking hours. They only come off in specific circumstances, normally involving water.
The socks must be well-fitting and put on straight, pulled up to their natural height and tightness. I prefer socks that come halfway up my shins, and I only wear ankle socks when working out.
The socks must be a matched pair. No mixing between different colours, cuts, brands, etc.
No holes allowed; if a sock gets a hole of any size, it immediately goes in the garbage. The widowed sock goes on my dresser until an appropriate mate is made by the splitting up of another pair.
On the other hand, I never sleep in socks under any circumstances. I find I get too warm.
socks alone make my feet too hot, but shoes are fine. is that a sensory issue?
For me it's temperature based. I'm wearing socks unless the temperature is above 27 Celsius, at which point I'm comfortable wearing shorts and sandals.
Under 23 C my entire skin needs covering except hands & head. I cannot stand exposed skin at that point.
When it's below 5 C I wear long socks because I lose a lot of heat through they legs.
Never liked socks much. Wore them sporadically.
Then I got neuropathy. Feels like I am wearing steel wool. Been years now and I will never wear them again.
I have slippers for when I visit which is rarely anyhoo.
Sock, but bigger socks or booties over those to keep them clean. My house is clean. Idk why I’m like this.
indoors? no socks ever outdoors? always knee highs <3
Usually socks because my feet get cold easily but they come off if it's warm and if I've swept the floor recently. Can't stand stuff sticking to my feet while I'm walking around.
I was a "socks at all times" person but then I learned my constant sock wearing was causing some minor foot problems and found love for the feeling of my feet being free of socks so now I'm strictly "socks exactly half of the time" kinda person. My family isn't sure what to make of actually seeing my bare feet from time to time now since neither they nor I ever did see my feet before very recently
I'm of the camp "yes socks please," unless it's very hot out. We're talking 30C+ with the AC at full blast.
Sandals only unless there is literally snow on the ground.
I just glanced down at my feet. I remembered to desock before I passed out.
Almost always
I wear "toe" shoes that don't need socks most of time. The calluses on the balls of my feet sometimes get too dry and tear holes in my socks, which gets a little frustrating. I usually can't stand the sensation of most socks, but I am good with my injijis or the comfy smart wool socks for boots. I can't wear any socks to bed as they get twisted and cut off circulation. So, unless if I absolutely need them for my footwear, or it gets too cold, I am not wearing them.
I love socks, but nowadays any sock size over 44-45 is 44-45. Buy "large socks" 47? Still 44-45. 52? Believe it or not, still 44-45.
I'm like 45-46 and it sucks. God I'd love a pair of thick beautiful socks.
Knit your own!
I recently took up knitting and knitted my first pair of socks for a friend. She loves them.
Never fucking again! What a pain! Literally, I kept tapping myself in the stomach with the double pointed needles.
Ha ha you're selling it badly 😁 but I'll remember it if I become too desperate...
Nice work BTW.
While they are a US brand and are very likely out of the question for the foreseeable future, Darn Tough does those larger sizes. So, they are out there. Just need to find an non-US brand.
If anyone know a European version I'm all for it, but you see even here they sell 46-49, I mean 46 would be maybe a little tight, 49 I would swim in them!
The "normal" size gets 41-42 though, only 2 "steps".
Thanks though! The search goes on...