French class obs

[StaraiRoalanstjay]

This is an obs from many years ago when I was in school, and it was a strange but interesting experience.

See, there was a lad in my tutor who I'll be calling 'A' for the purpose of this post. A was one of the quiet, intelligent people in our year, but I got on quite well with him. We sat next to each other in a number of lessons, including Music, French and ICT and we would always chat whilst working. On one particular day in our French class, we were working together out of a textbook when A took some crumpled tissues from his pocket and placed them on the table. It didn't look as if he needed to sneeze, so I wondered why he'd done it. Then, about 15 minutes later when we'd finished the work and were just chatting, A picked up one of the tissues and started rolling it into a thin point. Nowadays I do this regularly to induce a sneeze, but at the time I had no idea what he was about to do. He carefully stuck the tissue point up one nostril and wriggled it around. It worked almost immediately. He removed it and sneezed into one of the other tissues on the table that he'd grabbed with the other hand. I was fascinated. At this stage, we were only about 13, and although I already had an interest in sneezing, I was too young to know that it was a fetish. I asked him "Why do you like making yourself sneeze?" He answered "It feels good." He induced a few more times before putting the tissues back into his pocket and carrying on the conversation. His sneezes were nice; they matched his quiet personality. If I had to try and spell them out, I'd say it was like: "Heh-heh-heh-chew!"

It occurs to me now that A could've had a sneeze fetish too. I find it odd how he could sit in a room full of very judgemental, obnoxious 13/14 year old teens and make himself sneeze like that, but then again he was always the kind of person who didn't really give a damn about what people thought of him, even at 13. It was because of this experience that I learned that inducing was a thing, and I loved the idea of making myself sneeze without having to wait for a natural one to come along. I haven't spoken to A since we left school in 2012, but in between the inducing in the French class and the last day, I had no other experiences or obs from him that suggested that he could have a sneeze fetish.

Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

[decrescendo]

It definitely sounds likely! That particular method of inducing isn't exactly common knowledge. A quick google search would turn it up, of course, but who other than a fetishist would have reason to search for something like that?

Perhaps he was a fetishist with a thing for exhibitionism?

[StaraiRoalanstjay]

It definitely sounds likely! That particular method of inducing isn't exactly common knowledge. A quick google search would turn it up, of course, but who other than a fetishist would have reason to search for something like that?

Perhaps he was a fetishist with a thing for exhibitionism?

I could definitely go for the exhibitionism option (I'm kind of into that myself, only I fake it!) but this incident was a one off, so perhaps he thought I wasn't interested or even weirded out by what he was doing?

[decrescendo]

Maybe he isn't usually that bold, then? Or maybe he does it in other classes sometimes, but that was the only time he ever did it in French class. It could be that you asking about it spooked him, like he thought you might have been onto him.

[BananaTree]

When I was a kid, I did that with tissues and played around with them to make myself sneeze. I had no idea what I was really doing at the time, because I was so young. So it is a possibility.