and i have calluses in really, really strange places

because of it

I chew and pick at the skin around my finger nails. It's some sort of skin condition.

oh, i do that too, but for some reason that doesn't form calluses

and i don't think i have a skin condition, just a... neurosis? foible?

No, it actually is a skin condition! I forget the name of it though.

It's more about the compulsion to do it though.

oh, i believe you, i meant i do it but out of habit

not because i have a condition

sdfghjk I think we're just misunderstanding each other.

okay o_o

I don't mean there's something wrong with your skin that makes you do it or anything/

Let me see if I can find the page about it. It can explain it better than I can. xF

xD*

okay

I do it too

the picking at nails/cuticles thing, not the chewing hands thing

i was going to express confusion as to why i seem to only have chewing calluses on my left hand, but then i remembered i'm right-handed

Here!

derp

....oh

well then

XD

I was super surprised there was a name for it. xD

though thankfully i don't bite to the point of blood/discoloration

ew

but

this does seem to be

something i do

especially the thing about calluses forming

It can be really gross sometimes, yeah.

But it's kind of like, when you're doing it, you don't really realize it?

...yeah

Or how gross it is.

welp. At least i dont' eat my hair XD

since that can actually be dangerous >_>

Sob. I know right?

Although I do really dislike handing people things because then they have to see my fingers.

but now the next time my mom tells me to stop biting my nails, i can tell her i have dermatophagia

My mom tells me that all the time too.

I'm like "They're my fingers I'll do what I want."

ahah

i just sort of go 'yes mom' and stop until she forgets about it

or until i'm not paying attention again i guess >_>

I know she's only trying to help but.

It's like her telling me to stop makes me want to do it more.

lol

xD It's so weird, I know.

....lmao, i remember there was a speech class in college

and, perhaps because i was in it, one of the girls decided to do a speech about the grossness/dangers of nailbiting

i was absentmindedly nibbling on my thumb when the words reached my brain, lmao

Oh god.

i'm amused now, it was so damn embarrassing that day

I remember my freshman year of high school I was so stressed I literally picked the nail completely off my left pointer finger.

And everyone kept asking me what I did to it.

...maybe i should put a TMI thinger on this plurk

in case hand chewing didnt' scare people off already

Maybe. xD

okay there

... I just realized what it must say about me that I was interested in it.

lol

well, poeple are interested in things they have in common with others

even if that's dermatophagia

and you educated me! so this is a good thing

I think it's because there are certain things people don't like to talk about.

this is true

So when you find someone who has the same thing who's willing to talk about it, it's kind of nice.

/nodnod

It's like "Oh good, I'm not the only weirdo who picks at their skin."

lololol

i've always been like this, so i guess i didn't see anything weird about it idk

I've always done it too.

Literally, for as long as I can remember.

though i guess i don't see too many other people shoving the side of their pointer finger into their mouths

I still remember my mom asking my doctor how to get me to stop.

i started with nailbiting, lol, my parents tried a lot of stuff before they gave up

I know right? I'll be on the bus just nibbling away like nothings wronf.

wrong*

idk if the bus is a good example, i see lots of people doing weird things on there

Probably why I don't feel weird doing it. xD

ahah

My mom used to paint my nails. So I'd chip the paint off instead of bite my nails.

Except then I'd chip the paint off and bite the nail before she could repaint it.

actually i like painting my nails, and i like to keep it as long as i can...

though yes, it's fun to chip off the paint once it starts to go

I was like. Five.

...it's not helped when i nibble at the sides of my fingers XD

oooh, yeah XD

i think my mom tried some of that bitter liquid stuff once?

i think i didn't like it, but it didn't stop me >_>

Oh yeah, my mom did too.

I don't mind bitter stuff at all.

ahah

So it didn't faze me.

i hate bitter things XD

She tried... I think it was something that was spicy?

And I stopped for a bit.

oh jeez XD

i think i just got really good at not doing it when they coudl see me XD

Yeah.xD After a while I learned better.

I would stop for about a year and then start back worse too.

/checking out other links/ while we're being gross here, i think i do the skin-picking thing too

but only when i have like, pimples

i'm not covered in sores like that poor guy

The only thing I've ever picked at is scabs which. Isn't much better.

oh, well. That's sort of what i meant?

like. Pimples hurt. so i pop them

and then there's a scab

>_>

xD

I pop pimples too.

But mine normally don't form a scab.

IDK I heal weird.

lucky

i wouldn't pick at them if they didn't scab up >.<

they heal so slowly because i keep on, well, picking at them

/sob

I do that whenever I get a scab.

I just pick and pick and pick.

....at least i like scars, though i'm not sure if i genuinely like them or if that's just something i've decided

<_<

I don't mind them but I pretty much had no choice.