I read your profile & you have one of your issues as being ASD.....I have been doing research in this trying to learn about the problems that existed in my 33 year marriage that I am now finally getting divorced from.
I suggest you read the book The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome by Tony Attwood. One section in the book is on Tactile Sensitivity & it states:
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Sensitivity to specific types of touch or tactile experiences occures in over 50% of children with a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome (Bromley etal. 2004; Smith Myles et at. 2000). There can be an extreme sensitivity to a particular type of touch, the degree of pressure or the touching of particular parts of the body. Temple Grandin describes her acute tactile sensitivity when she was a young child:
As a baby I sesisted being touched & when I became a little older I can remember stiffening, flinching, & pulling away from relatives when they hugged me. (Grandin 1984, p155)
For Temple, the forms of touch used in social greetings or gestures of affection were perceived as too intense or overwhelming, a 'tidal wave; of sensation. Here the avoidance of some social interactions was due to a physiological reaction to touch.
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Sounds to me like learning more about what you are dealing in your life might be a good idea so you have a better understanding of what you are dealing with.