I’m pretty sure it’s my brain extrapolating from that baby experience and combining it with finger sensations. I didn’t have the opportunity to lick a basketball or (US) football but my tongue can surmise the difference in the bumps because my fingers know.
Yeah weirdly (or maybe not) when we get down to it too, every sense is a sense of touch. Your ears touch the vibrations in the air, your nose touches the particles in the air, your eyes feel the touch of the light that hits them, skin is self explanatory, and then your tongue, which is touching on a very miniscule level while checking for all the chemicals and seeing if your nose is confirming that the touch is similar to the particles
Though isn’t it a stream of photons that hit the photoreceptors? So not touch in the mechanical sense, but things are still “touching” in the colliquial sense, like a very minute and specialized version of smell
Some toddlers have helicopter parents who never let them put anything in their mouth. Will they be stunted in their growth and development and sensory skills?
If you feel this as a loss, I’m sure that if you let this be known widely enough in your friend group, someone will offer to help you out with the missing sensory data.
And if not, there’s definitely an app for that. Just put that on your profile.
Oh, these kids will make their experiences whatsoever. Even helicopter parents need to do stuff from time to time and kids somehow KNOW if they are not watched, ever for a second.
It might take longer to make all the experience one needs, but they will get them one way or another.
The unfortunate answer is that it knows through long forgotten experience… Anything a toddler sees goes in the mouth.
I’m pretty sure it’s my brain extrapolating from that baby experience and combining it with finger sensations. I didn’t have the opportunity to lick a basketball or (US) football but my tongue can surmise the difference in the bumps because my fingers know.
Suuuuure, buddy.
Yeah weirdly (or maybe not) when we get down to it too, every sense is a sense of touch. Your ears touch the vibrations in the air, your nose touches the particles in the air, your eyes feel the touch of the light that hits them, skin is self explanatory, and then your tongue, which is touching on a very miniscule level while checking for all the chemicals and seeing if your nose is confirming that the touch is similar to the particles
Disagree on eyes. Light is EM radiation, not a mechanical wave like sound. Your retina isn’t ‘touching’ anything but the vitreous.
Though isn’t it a stream of photons that hit the photoreceptors? So not touch in the mechanical sense, but things are still “touching” in the colliquial sense, like a very minute and specialized version of smell
Unfortunate? That’s an important part of learning as a toddler.
Sucking on couches & table legs & footballs. Toddlers have a lot going on at school.
Some toddlers have helicopter parents who never let them put anything in their mouth. Will they be stunted in their growth and development and sensory skills?
I think you might be onto something.
I have no idea how dick would feel on my tongue, because I’ve never had one on my tongue.
Interesting. Yes.
If you feel this as a loss, I’m sure that if you let this be known widely enough in your friend group, someone will offer to help you out with the missing sensory data.
And if not, there’s definitely an app for that. Just put that on your profile.
(your username is kinda epic)
Thank you. Yours is great too. Have a fantastic week.
You’ve never had dick on your tongue because you had helicopter parents who made sure you didn’t put anything in your mouth that isn’t food?
no, I never had dick on my tongue because I grew up in a conservative household.
Seems likely to me
Oh, these kids will make their experiences whatsoever. Even helicopter parents need to do stuff from time to time and kids somehow KNOW if they are not watched, ever for a second. It might take longer to make all the experience one needs, but they will get them one way or another.
Toddler as soon as Mom turns her back:
Licks the couch & sucks on wooden table leg