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She keeps doing this and it grosses me out. Her entire finger goes up. I know lots of people pick their nose but do it in the bathroom or somewhere in private it makes me queasy.
Normal for some people. It really depends on some internal features of the nose as to how often they have to pick their nose. For some people its rather frequent; and I'm one of those.
In my case my nose was built/rebuilt via experimental hair lip/cleft pallet surgury almost 65 years ago.
The outside of my nose looks normal although there is a very obvious upper lip scar, and some lessor facial scars that most people do not notice.
The inside of my nose is a maze of scar tissue... and things hang up all the time and cannot self clear.
Thus, I routinely pick my nose when it needs it, and I long ago gave up worrying about what other people think.
The other option for me when I was born was for the Dr's and Nurses to hand me to my mother and tell me that she could hold me until I died, as that was the standard practice in those days for my condition as I could not suckle to feed myself.
One of the Dr's in the hospital that night had recently been to a medical convention where he had seen the Dr. that invented hair lip/cleft pallet surgery do a presentation on it - and told everyone that he was looking for ideal test cases.
That Dr. just happened to be there that night for other reasons (was not involved in my delivery); but, wanted to see me as soon as he heard about my situation... and then told the other Dr and Nurses to do everything in their power to figure out how to feed me and keep me alive as there was a chance at experimental surgery; and he had to find a name and make a phone call to New York State.
The Dr. from New York traveled to Madison Wisconsin to perform my surgery.
In my younger years when I told that story to ENTs they could all name who that Dr was (the modern younger ENTs cannot); and they marveled at how good a job he had done (they can see all the faint scars and other marks and have a really good idea what I must have looked like) - and I've only had 1 round of surgery (I'm told that it often takes 2 or 3 rounds to get someone to have a nose look as good as mine does).
I've been told that living with my internal nose scares, and the routine nose picking, is just the price of my being alive. It's a very small price and just a minor annoyance in the big picture.