Hate being touched

FriendlyShadow

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Does anyone on here hate it when people touch them, wrap their arm around their shoulder, or maybe even something like shaking your hand. For me, I'm not a very touchy person and I keep my hands to myself for most of the time. I hate it when people touch me on the shoulders, stroke my hair, hold my hand, because I'm just not physically intimate myself. I guess it's in my nature. I mean, I'm not saying I'm cold hearted though. It doesn't mean that I don't treat these people with respect and being kind torwards them. I do give people hugs sometimes, touch them on few occasions, but not all the time. But even strangers I don't even know would come up to me and start touching my hair and touching my shoulders and I feel slightly irritated. When somebody takes a picture with me with a group of people who touch me or put their arm around my shoulder, I really would like them if they hadn't. I don't want to feel a person's touch anywhere on me. Sorry if that sounds harsh though. I really would like it if I stood alone next to people and thatt they wouldn't touch me all the time.
 

dannyboy65

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I'm similar but also different. I have autism and my sensory is very sensitive. So hugging, hand holding, etc... is very hard for me. When something touches me it gives me shivers down my spine or feels like a spark. It's so intense that I can't swim due to the feeling of the water, I can shower but it still feels weird. Hell even if I watch people touching each other I feel it. In a way though I also like it but only if a person I really care and trust does it. If you fit my criteria I could hold you for hours, but if you don't I can't even shake your hand correctly.
 

FriendlyShadow

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I'm similar but also different. I have autism and my sensory is very sensitive. So hugging, hand holding, etc... is very hard for me. When something touches me it gives me shivers down my spine or feels like a spark. It's so intense that I can't swim due to the feeling of the water, I can shower but it still feels weird. Hell even if I watch people touching each other I feel it. In a way though I also like it but only if a person I really care and trust does it. If you fit my criteria I could hold you for hours, but if you don't I can't even shake your hand correctly.

I'm sorry you go through this :(. Well, it's not really the fact that when someone touches, me it sends a jolt or a shiver down my spine (unless they come up from behind me out of nowhere and feel its okay to do so). I think the biggest issue is that when people feel inclined to touch me (even those I don't know) personally, I find it annoying. Of course though, I never tell them that it does. But I hate when people try to be flirty with me by putting their arm around my shoulder, holding my hand, even tickling me most of the time. I just want to be left alone and untouched. In fact, I wish I had a sign on me that reads "Look but please don't touch" so that people will get the message. I mean I don't mind it maybe once in a while when people hug me on special occasions or people will offer me a back massage or something. But there needs to be a line drawn when it gets to the point where it becomes too much. I've learned now to keep my hands to myself and the only times when I find it most acceptable to touch a person is by giving them hugs or just a quick pat on the back. It's the over excessive touching that drives me crazy.

People will even randomly come up to me and touch my hair or grab me out of nowhere and hold me like I'm their precious baby. Or whenever a person is taking a picture of me in a group of people, someone almost ALWAYS had to put their hand on my shoulder, put their arm around me, or give me the most awkwardest hug that they consider to be cute. Those things turn me off pretty fast to tell you the truth. I'd rather not be the center of everyone's attention. I hate that anyone in my own family touches me. I wish I had more freedom of choosing how I want to take a picture or going out somwhere without people making me feel so obliged for me to touch them and for them to touch me. If only they knew.
 

FriendlyShadow

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Oh I also have to mention this because it's a pretty good example. My grandfather for the most part, would be so obsessed with touching me and giving me compliments. When I was little, he'd always just stare at me and just talk down on me like a little child. He and the rest of my family members always has throw these excessive compliments "You the most beautiful girl in the world." "How come you don't have a boyfriend." I find it difficult to act normal around them. Nonethelss, be myself around them because they treat me like Miss Universe. I can't ever just have a normal one on one talk with anybody about anything because they feel that they must tell me these things and it makes the situation only awkward for me. I actually hate being spoiled as well because of me going out of my way to be this "sugar plum fairy" towards everybody. It's nice that they're thinking of me, but they give me way too much affection for me to take. Why can't anyone just treat me normal? Why can't they talk to me like a normal person and try to see me as only that?
 

dannyboy65

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Oh I also have to mention this because it's a pretty good example. My grandfather for the most part, would be so obsessed with touching me and giving me compliments. When I was little, he'd always just stare at me and just talk down on me like a little child. He and the rest of my family members always has throw these excessive compliments "You the most beautiful girl in the world." "How come you don't have a boyfriend." I find it difficult to act normal around them. Nonethelss, be myself around them because they treat me like Miss Universe. I can't ever just have a normal one on one talk with anybody about anything because they feel that they must tell me these things and it makes the situation only awkward for me. I actually hate being spoiled as well because of me going out of my way to be this "sugar plum fairy" towards everybody. It's nice that they're thinking of me, but they give me way too much affection for me to take. Why can't anyone just treat me normal? Why can't they talk to me like a normal person and try to see me as only that?

I'm the opposite though, I never get affection from anybody. So when someone who I'm close to hugs me or something I love it like examples are that I hate affection from my parents, but the individual I work with who has severe autism, I love his hugs as it shows he trusts me and really cares which he doesn't do a lot of.
 

RegalSin

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Listen to me. Think about it like this. A party/celebration of life it is better to have more people wrocking the boat then to have none. Stop living in fear and stop being a slave and just learn to be upbeat no matter what the situation. Next your going to start sounding like a mother saying "can't win, can't win" while hiding under a rock planning your escape.

If you have a problem with people just stop having a problem with people. If it is a anti-non-heterosexual thing just remember. In Judaism it is okay for men to be near men and women to be near women but not okay for the opposites to be near. Why be a confused gentile who is upset about everything.

Learn not to care and realize touching does not matter. Touching only matters when it comes to STD's/VD's/HIV and that is it. Okay so learn to grow up. Your body is not going to age like wine and your going to have to keep yourself afloat one way or another.

So it is better to learn how to not care and just get along with people. I mean seriously I will admit if it was in public and you do not know the person you should learn to get along with people trying enjoy the world.

Like take the food server vs. the people at one table vs. people at another table. You have to understand that people come and go. One table might be touchy while another table might not be touchy. Then of course a group of X people with a group of X peoples families. It is like getting a video from the rental store. There is Rated-G ( cowards ), Rated-PG ( meh ), Rated-R ( most cases uncensored but censored for the region ), Rated-NR ( no rating at all ). Imagine if they were sitting at different tables. G might associate with PG and NR but R never associates with G. Simple as that.

The key is not caring or giving a darg about any of those things

Another issue is not associating people enough and living a shut-in life. When you associate with people it is a great feeling inside of you. You feel contempt. It is like when you take a vacation you start kissing and hugging all the family members you have issues with.

Another word of advise. Take a vacation. Go on one of those free tours where you can work for free or live inside somebodies place for free in another nation kind of thing. Or just drive to a destination like the Grand Canyon or even Vegas or something along those lines. You need to get out and live.

Some people are addicted to that kind of life style.

That is my two cents.
 

FriendlyShadow

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Listen to me. Think about it like this. A party/celebration of life it is better to have more people wrocking the boat then to have none. Stop living in fear and stop being a slave and just learn to be upbeat no matter what the situation. Next your going to start sounding like a mother saying "can't win, can't win" while hiding under a rock planning your escape.

If you have a problem with people just stop having a problem with people. If it is a anti-non-heterosexual thing just remember. In Judaism it is okay for men to be near men and women to be near women but not okay for the opposites to be near. Why be a confused gentile who is upset about everything.

Learn not to care and realize touching does not matter. Touching only matters when it comes to STD's/VD's/HIV and that is it. Okay so learn to grow up. Your body is not going to age like wine and your going to have to keep yourself afloat one way or another.

So it is better to learn how to not care and just get along with people. I mean seriously I will admit if it was in public and you do not know the person you should learn to get along with people trying enjoy the world.

Like take the food server vs. the people at one table vs. people at another table. You have to understand that people come and go. One table might be touchy while another table might not be touchy. Then of course a group of X people with a group of X peoples families. It is like getting a video from the rental store. There is Rated-G ( cowards ), Rated-PG ( meh ), Rated-R ( most cases uncensored but censored for the region ), Rated-NR ( no rating at all ). Imagine if they were sitting at different tables. G might associate with PG and NR but R never associates with G. Simple as that.

The key is not caring or giving a darg about any of those things

Another issue is not associating people enough and living a shut-in life. When you associate with people it is a great feeling inside of you. You feel contempt. It is like when you take a vacation you start kissing and hugging all the family members you have issues with.

Another word of advise. Take a vacation. Go on one of those free tours where you can work for free or live inside somebodies place for free in another nation kind of thing. Or just drive to a destination like the Grand Canyon or even Vegas or something along those lines. You need to get out and live.

Some people are addicted to that kind of life style.

That is my two cents.

Thanks hun. I appreciate your advice. Though I think you and I have different ways of viewing things. I will say this, I don't think it's necessarily fear of being intimate with others, but I'm honest when I say that it really is in my nature that I'm just not an affectionate person. It's not to say that come up to people who are in good moods and rain their parade by making them feel bad about themselves because I'm not the one having a good time. Like I usually say, I live and let live.

But besides that, I think it's also due to me not being a flirtatious person and when I feel someone touch me or come up behind me out of nowhere by surprise, I'm either usually taken aback or just feeling awkward. I'll tell you, I wasn't blessed with the most happiest, perfect childhood I could've lived with throughout my life. I think due to all the amount of negative criticism, yelling and shouting, and drama I've been recieving from most people (my whole family especially) has actually led it harder for me to believe in myself. Being around overly critical people who do nothing but point out everything you do wrong or everything they see in you that they don't like, makes it harder just to force a smile on my face and pretend I'm okay.

I think for the most part of my life, I've been constantly forced to put on a front for people in order for them not to see me for who I truly am. I know you'd probably tell me to avoid people like these, but that's the problem. These are the types of people I have to deal with every single day on a regular basis. They're not people I just walked up to one day, introduced myself to, made small talk and that I'll never have to see them again afterwards. Not only that, I've also had to learn to deal with people who are either highly stubborn, hot tempered, impatient, and those who laugh at the sight of me grieving. I swear not even people like my own sister can take me seriously if I try to explain to her why I feel the way I've always felt like.

Believe me, I don't go out of my way to destroy people's moods if they're already happy with themselves. I'm more disappointed and quite upset by the lack amount of support or respect I've gotten from them over the years. Not everyone in this world has treated me cruelly, but there were enough to make me feel as weak and depressed about myself than I'd ever realize. I'm more surprised at how much negativity I've been feeding off from these people. I can't remember a time when anyone in my life could list anything positive about myself (that goes for my family as well too.) And even when they do have something positive to say about me, it's very rarely ever said. It's 95% of the time that there will always be something negative said about me, no matter what I say or do. There's always going to be that one flaw they pick on and make it seem worse than it really is. Because of their constant negative critcism, I feel I'm starting to doubt myself and my own decisions. Now, as I said in another thread before, now I'm grown to expect that everyone around me will treat me the same.

I guess of course, being me, I don't have too much luck when it comes to finding my own happiness. Well, that's pretty much what I think anyways. My intentions for writing this thread wasn't meant for me to sound like a debbie downer or anything. I just wanted to explain my own feelings in which I can't fully express them torwards my own family or other people honestly. I feel this is at least a much more safe environment for me to be able to vent any of my frustrations or sadness I have built in me. I know this was rather off the subject a bit from what this thread is supposed to represent. Maybe a time will come when I'll learn to accept these things have happened to me and the time for me to move on from it.... eventually.
 
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Louco

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It's ok to just push back the paw of any creature touching you if they can't tell you are not ok with it by more subtle means. Most people also enjoy their personal space and are only trying to be friendly, they won't mind that much.
 

Kiwong

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Yep, it takes a lot of getting used to. For a while getting close to my pet cockatiel was unusual. She loved a back of the head rub with my chin. After a while that time when Lenny was with me was the best part of my day. I guess that closeness and warmth was a kind of love. Comforting.

With people it never seems natural. I've never learned to be close, it's like another language to me.
 

Sacrament

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Depends on how used to those touching me I am. I've been getting massages recently and it's tough at first because you're naked (nothing but a towel on you), but once you teach yourself to relax, it feels pretty good.
 
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