[Moraganal]

Anybody else deal with this. I'm okay when I either drunk or completely trust the person. Otherwise people touching me is the scariest thing on the planet to me. I don't know where they've been, who they are. Touching should be something important and I HATE IT. When people I don't know touch me. The slow graze and movementm the warmth. I've gone to extremes as to get up from my deat of buses to actually get of buses or run away from the area and freak out.

[beatles1234]

Originally Posted by Moraganal

Anybody else deal with this. I'm okay when I either drunk or completely trust the person. Otherwise people touching me is the scariest thing on the planet to me. I don't know where they've been, who they are. Touching should be something important and I HATE IT. When people I don't know touch me. The slow graze and movementm the warmth. I've gone to extremes as to get up from my deat of buses to actually get of buses or run away from the area and freak out.

I can't say I know exactly what you are going through, I can tolerate people I know well enough ( family members and my best friend) to touch me. If it's someone I don't know I freak out. I hate it if someone I just met accidentally touches me or gets too close.

Do you have any idea or reason for not liking people touching you? I know for me it's because being around people makes me anxious and nervous, I constantly worry about what could happen.

[Cecidi]

I'm kind of the same... Touch, for me, is something intimate. I don't even like hugging my father. I don't like hugging my friends. I feel like I'm getting too close. I don't like the idea of dating because it requires getting close. So when I'm sitting next to someone on a packed bus and my arm is forced to rest against theirs, I just get really squirmy and tense and uncomfortable. I try to make myself as small as possible but I've never had to get off a bus - I move as soon as a space opens up in which I won't have to touch anyone. And then I suddenly feel like I can breathe.

It does get better when I'm feeling better myself but I've been under a lot of stress lately and old habits are starting to resurface.

[tokiwartooth]

I don't like being touched much either, even if I do know you. It's not that I'm afraid of where they've been, etc, but it makes me feel dirty and creepy. I especially hate anyone touching or kissing the top of my head. But if someone touches me really softly, I usually want to take steel wool and scrub my skin off. I don't even like the feeling of breath on my skin. I don't care if it's from a family member. It makes me want to rip my skin off. I was molested in daycare when I was 2, and it probably stems from that. But I can sympathize.

i used to think i was like this too (because i really hate being touched also) but realised i'm not.

i just don't like it in most situations