Why does it sometimes itch when I pull out a white hair?

Maybe because the white ones are thicker? So the hole they make when you pull them out is bigger?

I believe most white or clear hairs are coarse or kinky so they move, ever so slightly the hairs around them making us itch in that spot. That’s how I found a few, by parting the surrounding hair strands until I found the strangeling.

It’s the dead cells that made it itchy I guess.

I think @lainesteel hit it on the head. Probably has to do with the dead cells.

Though I also wonder why white hairs are thicker than usual (like @jca and @Neizvestnaya both mentioned). Besides pigment, they seem rather robust.