Touch. Can you tolerate it?

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I'm fine so long as I'm expecting it but not without me seeing coming. Catching me off gaurd makes me yell don't do that or get away from them really fast. The only problem I have with it is no one is to touch my neck.

Hugs from friends are fine, wonderful even! But not from acquaintances. No one has mentioned doctors, dentists, and other people who have some professional reason to touch you. I really hate that kind of touch, pathologically hate it and avoid it when possible, or in the case of the dentist, take tranquilizers when I have to go. I would not get a massage if it was free and from the best massage therapist in the world. My hair is the exception, I love going to the beautician or having anyone play with my hair, I think because my grandmother used to twirl my hair with her fingers while she read us bedtime stories and I felt very safe with her.

Unless I initiate it, no. Or I ask for it.

Depends on mood, circumstance and who's doing the touch...and type of touch. I HATE being tapped on the shoulder or touched from behind in any kind of way... maybe it's mostly that I hate being touched without warning. At least when someone comes from a straightforward angle and hugs me, I can see it coming and get prepared. If it's someone I know intimately, whether in a romantic, friendship or family sense, sometimes I do like being touched, a lot. But you have to be someone close to me. Anyone else, at best I just tolerate it.

Very bad with stuff like that.

When people try to hug me.

I feel like im hugging a tree with spikes and i probably look just as stupid. It just doesnt feel natural to me at all.

If it come from my family, close friend (not acquaintances) then I'll fine with it. It give me this warm feeling
But when it come from a stranger, then too bad (especially from the opposite gender) just a light touch can give me a weird and uncomfortable feeling

I don't like being touched by anyone and avoid it whenever possible.

I can tolerate it, but don't like it. Human touch has a totally different feel to it than any other type of touch. I can be in major pain and still be more aware of the hands touching me trying to treat me, than the pain itself. I always want to pull away from human touch, and will pull away unless I am pre-aware of it.

I'm generally okay with it, sometimes when it happens I feel slightly uncomfortable with it. My biggest problem is that my body seems to always send a message to let me know I am being touched. I find my eyes go to where it happens. There are some people I would like to be more touchy with, but as I don't know how to initiate it and because people notice how I react, it just ends up really awkward and that I find uncomfortable.

Apparently, my body language is working well enough to tell people not to touch me. In the past 4 years, no-one has ever tried to hug me (except for some family members).

Being touched by doctors (for medical reasons) is not a problem.

when I am kindly touched, it lights up my whole day. it even makes my pains recede into the background. kind touch is HEALING.

I think being touched is one of my biggest anxieties.

Whenever one of my close friends tried to kiss me on the cheek or around my mouth without asking or with little notice, I always flipped out and jerked backwards. I was a little bit more consenting when they asked me first. When people sometimes pat me on the back with force and little indication, I dislike it.

I can stand being touched as long as there's no emotion involved. Strangely enough, I did not have these problems with girlfriends.