It might be something to do with the industry, or the people's skills and knowledge sometimes used unethically.

Some of the tricks played, I am never quite sure what is real and what I am imagining. But there was this motive, people would keep coming to my desk and be touching me on my arm or elbow, often saying or asking things nearly meaningless.
After 2.5 months, I started to ask them individually to stop that habit, so they would be coming nearby and touching one another as if to prove everyone did it.... and forgot to masquerade after a few days, but they would still be doing this to me, if only more seldom.

The convoluted part, I think it is believed that autistic people don't like to be touched. So, if you complain - you must be autistic. Or am reading too much into it?