Is is normal to feel inanimate objects itch?

I don't think it's heaps normal but it used to happen to me - I would look at a picture in a magazine and I would maybe have to itch the cheek of the face on the cover and if I didn't and just walked away I would have a little spazz attack, lol, or I would have to ask my brother to itch his arm because I thought it had to be itched, and the unsatisfaction of not having the itch fulfilled was unbearable! I think it's anxiety based, I haven't done it in over 15 years!

this is NOT normal.
I think you have OCD.

I have the same thing!

I found it really hard to find info on this on Google, so I conclude that no it's not 'normal'. I have it though, but perhaps not to a very strong degree because when I was about 12 I got fed up with it and forced myself to ignore it. Doing that it got better. For me it manifested itself in having an irresistible urge to wipe things with my hand, just as you might wipe your arm if something brushed against it, for instance if I put a pen on a table I'd want to wipe the pen, or after typing I'd wipe the keyboard (not wipe with a cloth, I mean brush with my hand).
I still have the urge, but less so, so mostly I can ignore it.
But now I see that my son also has it - I'd never mentioned it to him so he didn't learn it from me, he developed it himself.

I used to have something similar, but not as extreme. It's a form of OCD.

thats weird

You know, actually, I have something similar. But I'm afraid of putting it on here just in case.... oh whatever, I can pay for it later. Every inanimate object has a soul, so I'm doing my best not to insult any of them. (That's why I have to turn away from them whenever I make a face at them. Or why I try to hold in my farts so my chair doesn't have to smell them. Then I feel bad. It's like gossiping or something.) Or if I accidentally scrape one, I feel it inside me like I scraped myself, only it's worse. I then must proceed to give the inanimate object a massage. I feel you, bro.

I have the same problem. And DONT go see a therapist. i did they gave ma a bunch of pills that didnt work.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Go see a therapist and ask about those.

im the same way have HAVE to touch somethings

I find that really interesting

"itching" is the impulse to touch
usually you itch yourself, it could be to swat a bug away or clean yourself that why your body itches, it's telling you it want you to touch yourself because it thinks it needs to

to feel itching something else than your own body... I find that concept totally alien but at the same time it really explain some very odd behavior I've observed !

Yes I agree with what some of these other people said. Many people in my family have OCD. Once you get on medicine for it your life will be MUCH easier and you won't get that feeling like you HAVE to do it. And finish it. Whatever that "it" may be.

Your behavior seems really profound when you relate it to Animism. If this is OCD, it HAS to be the coolest OCD I've ever heard of.

sounds like ocd

You have a very special Form of Obssesive Compulsive Disorder, but it is fairly normal, yes. Many people have OCD, just most refuse to talk to other people.