Your brain usually makes your own touch feel less ticklish.

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Meissner's corpuscle incidentally noted in normal skin from the plantar aspect of the foot

Pathological and histological images courtesy of Ed Uthman at flickr.
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Your brain usually makes your own touch feel less ticklish.

Self-produced touch usually feels less ticklish because the brain predicts some of its sensory consequences. Saying that nobody can ever tickle themselves is too absolute: the evidence supports a reduction in typical conditions, not a universal impossibility.

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