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What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?
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I believe it's a sensory processing thing since I also have strong ASMR, but I do what I guess might be called "tagging" by some, which is that rubbing the hems of things made with certain fabrics between my fingers or toes, where fingers meet the hand, is incredibly self-soothing. Great when tired.
Not all fabrics are the same. The hems of jeans are usually the best. Needs to be relatively stiff fabric, and sharp corners also do it. Canvas is good. Dress pants, linen, and light fabrics just do nothing.
As a kid my parents had some terrible polyester blanket with a defect where the middle of the hem on one side was some think plastic thread that was like fishing line. In one area it was really tight and bunched up. It was a high I rode until I wore a hole in that spot of the blanket.
May i ask were there any tailors in your ancestry or people that worked with fabric?
None that I'm aware of going back a few generations. No one else in my family has this at all, and I definitely had some of the "should we worry about this child?" stuff for a while.