Psychology
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1 day agoPeople who can't walk through a store without running their fingers along every surface aren't being childish - they learned early that the world only felt real when their body confirmed it because the emotional information they received from people was never reliable enough to trust - Silicon Canals
Compulsive touching in stores reflects a psychological need for sensory verification rooted in childhood experiences with emotional unpredictability, where physical reality became more trustworthy than emotional reality.