I remember years ago seeing my first ever person get pied at a charity thing and hating it. From that point on I was scared of seeing people get messy and didn't want to be near it.

My next memory is being in the bath and realising how much I wanted to be pied and then as puberty arrived, it turned into a fetish and I've never looked back. Do any of you remember having completely opposite feelings which then somehow (maybe) became a fetish?

I remember seeing someone in a bath of beans and thought it was smelly.

On the flip side I remember seeing gunge in the 90s and instantly wanted to explore it. As I've gone into adult life I've loved it more and more

The first time I saw Get Your Own Back I didn't enjoy it at all but soon wanted to be on it!!

Not with mud, which I've always liked, but I remember feeling horrified as a child watching a pantomime when they asked for volunteers from the audience, and having got them had them play a game where they ended up pieing each other (or themself in one case).

No, unfortunately.... With me it all started bein' a little kid. Always enjoyed gettin' messed up. When I was growin' up, I sometimes wished, (and tried...), not to have this fetish, 'cause I thought I was the only one like this. This was way before the 'internet'...... But some things you just can't change, and you have to deal with it and enjoy it..... And who cares anyways what we like to do....

I have seen writings before which links fear and sexual arousal together as they effectively they physiologically overlap each other in regards to how the body behave to both emotions.
Heart rate breathing muscles Etc, and both emotions could be confused so the initial fear could of been actual arousal.
This is why so many are into fear fetishes and humiliation fetishes which WAM for most part is humiliation as it triggers this emotion.

Im going through the opposite now. Its been a few weeks that i have no appetite to watch wam let alone gilm or edit it anymore. Curious if anybody had this change.

I go through phases of it. I'm just going through a big one now and haven't since July so I tend to indulge when I'm in one and then most not be fussed when I'm not.

This, I will get burnout from anything sexual after awhile when I go through a particularly horny phase. Then I'm just not turned on by much of anything. I wish I could keep that feeling.

To answer your question, yes. Everything you just described was how I grew up. I absolutely hated it growing up and wasn't until puberty hit that everything changed.

I remember liking the look of mud but being put off by the smell when I first tried it. Compared to now where I'd get horrifically turned on by pungent mud and frantically try to connect to the correct multiverse instance, like Stephen Strange, where I'm in it beyond dirty, smelly and loving it!

I remember first seeing mess and thought it was silly. Now I find it fun to watch.

100% this is me; I remember being in a youth group around the age of 8 or so and part of the events one night was a shaving cream fight which left me mortified/terrified; flash ahead to a few years later when adolescence struck and my parents felt comfortable leaving me home alone for the first time, which led to me seeing what materials were around the house could I get messy with...

I find it interesting that for so many mess was just fun at the beginning and then later it turns into something sexual.

Me too. I don't think it's massively surprising. I enjoyed googling gunge and finding out about it/looking at pics. Stumbled across gungegirls and then when you hit puberty it's not a big jump to realise that there is plenty of sexual content to be found and other people who have the kink.

This story chimed with me; in my case it was a friend's party where a clown got a game going where others were trying to get shaving foam pies in faces. This scared me, luckily although at that time of life I didn't know I was autistic, I was already known for being pretty aloof and nobody bothered me for hiding under the tables and munching party rings instead of participating. Even today I don't think I would actually like to witness or be involved in a messy event outside of an explicitly WAM context.