"Social" touching

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I hate most people kissing me, and I do not like most people touching me either.
However, if I am close to someone, like my bf now, I actually crave certain forms of touch, especially tight hugs.
I don't like light touching, it is really uncomfortable and makes my whole body twitch in certain places.
I am not keen really on kissing either, as in lips to lips, it can get really sore, and my aspie bf is quite vigorous in doing it, lol.
I like having a winter quilt on me, even in summer, and find I cannot sleep with something light on top of me.
I also like it to be tucked about my face tightly.

Poking or prodding is the worst for me, I get pretty annoyed if anyone does that.

It's difficult to explain to people, because I don't want everyone touching me all the time but then they think I don't want to be touched ever. For instance, when I'm in a relationship with someone I typically don't mind them touching me...holding hands, arms around each other, etc. But I don't get touchy with other people hardly ever. I rarely even give hugs. Like a lot of you have said, I also feel the need to rub or scratch the spot where someone has touched me. People just think I'm being over-dramatic though, lol.

O.T.

Wow, I never realized that I wasn't alone in how I feel. I'm glad I found this site. Thank you for the validation.

I'm the oddball that's reassured by touch, as long as I'm not in pain. That becomes confusing.

The thing is, I grew up with a mentally disturbed mother who refused to ever be diagnosed so there was ample abuse and general f*ckwittery that consistently messed with my well-being throughout my formative years. I am finding that if there's a similarity between my mother's abusive behavior and more docile aspie behavior, I will be privy to the opposite of the aspie behavior because of what I experienced with my mother. So instead of being turned off by social touch as a reasonable aspie trait, I enjoy the hugging and casual touching because my mother did the alienation of affection thing. The touching only bothers me when I'm already having a physical sensory experience because it creates two messages that contradict each other and it becomes confusing (and overwhelming) for me.

Alot of my friends are amused by my non hugging and generally pass it on to people if i go to parties, which i dont mind, my mate punches me on the arm when we see each other cause i dont hug,

The only person i really like to hug is my boyfriend, and i like being "patted" as i call it, which is light touch, but only from him, have to rub my arm if someone else touches me to emphasise a point. I put up with hugs from my neices but even when my mum hugs me i dont like it, just feels odd and uncomfortable.

worst type of hug is if you are upset and someone thinks its a good idea to touch me, much storming away and angry face is then shown.

on the weighted blanket front,I slept in my neices bed with hers, was well good! I have heavy pillows along the wall on the side of my bed, i like sleeping squished underneath them, I also like to sleep between 2 duvets, as in sheet, duvet, me, duvet. My boyfriend doesnt have this set up at his house and says i am extrememly wriggly when sleeping but stop if he hugs me really tight, might have to invest in a weighted blanket when we buy this new house, or marriage wont last very long.lol

I don't like hugs or touches, unless they are:

1) from someone I'm sexually attracted to
2) very strong hugs from muscular guys, like so strong they almost hurt

I also can't sleep without at least 2 blankets, even in summer. I really wanna get a weighted blanket but they are pricy and I live overseas

Being hugged, kissed, lightly touched, or engaging in gentle sexual activity sends bad shivers up my spine and feels uncomfortable to mildly painful. The majority of my friends know this and avoid hugging me but there are a few relatives who have proven incapable of not being offended by my aversion. In those instances I put on my friendliest face and simply endure the touch and reciprocate with the appropriate gesture, then quickly disengage.

On the other hand, I am comfortable with a good firm hand shake.

Hi...

this touching and kissing bothers me, too. This is why I hate family gatherings, birthdays (it is worst when it is your own birthday... everyone insists on hugging and kissing you and there is no stopping them) and stuff like that. I cannot stand it. When I was younger and there was a family party, I used to hide under the stairs in order to avoid the saying-hello scene.

i really hate handshakes, especially from men. i was raised that men shake hands with each other, but not with ladies. fortunately(sort of....)i have to use forearm crutches, which means both my hands are full with the handgrips.. kind of a strange help, but i dont knock it. at least i dont have to hold some stranger's icky hand, even if it is supposed to be a show of friendship.

Finally someone who feels the same. Gosh you know, how awkward is it. Friends of friends, even friends, want to hug you, and they go ''hugs'' and you go ''you cant afford this''. But really, very uncomfortable. I always felt awkward because i didnt want to be rude and run 50 miles from the human contact, but then it was always really awkward when you end up standing there like a plank of wood while this young vagabond wraps its arms around you. and its like, *pat pat on back* ''yes, yes, there there. now please, spacial bubble''
I cant ever understand the social cuddling and cat purring. I can understand its intent is to be friendly, but isnt it rather personal for touchy feely when one hardly knows the scoundrel. And I always found in my experience if you didnt take part you were out cast.

while i was in college, there was a classmate with whom i shared a liking for photography, and we talked about it and other things often. but to me, he was just a friend...i never considered him more than that. when i got engaged, he had already left college and was working back east. but he was visiting once, and my fiancee and i took him to the airport to go home, and this guy reaches out to give me a good by hug. now, under some circumstances, i love hugs, and didnt mind him giving me one. but he wouldnt let go, and just held on for the longest time. i didnt make hm let go, because i had a feeling something was wrong and he was upset. yeah, he was...3 days before my wedding, he calls up and starts this whole thing of 'how can you leave me? i love you!' both my fiancee and i were shocked- neither of us had a clue of how he had felt!

now, 25 years later, my friend tells us he was recently Dxed with Aspergers. big suprise. <wry grin>

oh my days, yes, i feel your pain, and then they think you're cold or emotionless because you dont appreciate getting leg humped