Personal Space and Proprioception

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Ah! It's so automatic for me now that I forgot that exception... I hate people behind me, too! If someone is near me, I have to be able to see them. I don't even like someone to hold a door open for me because you have to walk in front of them to get through the door. Just someone standing behind me is pretty bad, but if I'm walking and they're walking behind me... just being in motion... I get this weird tension and I have to make them walk in front of me, or else I'll get in a weird mood and look behind me to see them every few seconds.

Verdandi, overstimulation makes more sense. Lately I've been trying to think of things in terms of feelings as reactions, so I overlooked sensory when I was thinking about it. Even though it doesn't bother me the way you've described that it bothers you, I do get strong sensory feeling when people are near me. Can't explain it too well, but it's a sense of their presence, a kind of pressure? Not the same kind of pressure as actual physical touch.

I am not sure I can describe it accurately.

I do think there's a pressure, yes. I think it's worse when they're near and I can't see them - that is, behind me.

Yes, I feel that "pressure" - I don't know what else to call it either. I look around and everyone else seems quite oblivious to it, pushing and jostling all the time.

Thinking of proprioception, is it normal for people to experience a lot of anger/frustration at, say, hitting bumps while in a moving vehicle? I just sort of want to explode at the driver every single time.