How do you feel about people touching you?

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Usually I prefer others not to touch me. I won't freak out if someone touches my shoulder or even gives me a hug, but a great majority of the time it isn't very enjoyable. I just feel uncomfortable.

The only time I actually enjoy physical contact with another person is if that person is a girl. I liked getting hugs from girls at school, but that's about it. Even family and close friends, it just feels uncomfortable and very forced.

I dislike anyone touching me, not even my family. It does not make a difference if they give warning or not. Touch makes me feel uncomfortable. If it is a stranger, or even a friend, I will usually pull away. However, if a family member attempts to touch me, I will usually stand there unmoving and stoic and wait anxiously for it to be over.
I used to get very upset and snap at someone who touched me without my consent in middle school.

I like it if I'm the one initiating it and it's all on my terms (there are a few exceptions). If I'm not the one initiating it and if it's not on my terms (which is most of the time) or if it's not one of the exceptions, I don't like it at all. Then it's like people invade my personal space and it makes me annoyed and a bit anxious. I don't really freak out or anything though. The only time I sort of freak out is when I'm already anxious and/or overwhelmed and people (for example people I sit next to in the lecture hall) accidentally (or intentionally) touch me. That makes me a) quickly move whatever body part that was touched (mostly my arms) away from whatever touched me, b) scream and swear in my head, and c) make me even more overloaded.

Nope, don't like anyone touching me. If I have some warning I can handle it but in general, it's just really uncomfortable.

Everyone that responded that it feels uncomfortable: why do you think that is so? Is it also because of touch sensory issues or?

I don?t like strangers/uninvited physical contact for a number of reasons that are trust related, not because I?m touch sensitive.

If it's someone I'm close to, yes its good - otherwise not.

Just don't surprise me and grab me or something.

I don't like it but I can tolerate it. I love physical affection from my girlfriend thou.

I don't like it at all, from anybody. It feels unpleasant.

I really like it when my dad gives me a neck and shoulder massage, which he does to relax me. My cousin who my age and like my brother can get away with anything from cuddling me when need it to tackling me and tickling me and stuff. I'm not as comfortable with my mom for some reason, but I like it when she stokes my hair. I can tolerate my yearly psychical exams from my pediatrician, but I need Xanax for that. With anyone else I don't like being touched and always flinch away.

I've always had a problem with people touching me. I'm awful at hugs and shaking hands and basically anything that involves touching or being touched by another person. It all feels so unnatural to me.

A lot of the time when someone touches me, it hurts. They might just tap me on the arm but it feels like their jabbing their finger into me repeatedly. I can feel where they touched me long after they've stopped and it's painful. Then my OCD symmetry fixation kicks in and I have to touch myself on the opposite arm to balance myself out.

I'm really startled by unexpected touch- like, jump-and-gasp kind of startled. The fact that I don't like hugs is a reoccurring joke with my family and friends who think it's funny that I can't stand being touched. A girl I went to high school with used to exploit this and would poke me very hard whenever there was an opportunity to do so and also liked to poke my cystic acne, which was already painful enough. She thought it was funny. I thought it was funny that she called herself my friend.

I usually stand far away from people to lessen my likelihood of being touched. Not really on purpose. It's innate.

I don't mind hugs and handshaking, unless it comes from people that I don't know or if i'm not expecting it. I don't know exactly why, I just feel really uncomfortable.

How do you guys do when you and a close friend/ family member or significant other are cuddling and say... rubbing your arm or another part of your body- in the same spot for a long period of time? If it is in the same spot for more than a few seconds then it literally starts to feel like sand paper rubbing on my skin and starts to hurt. Anyone else like this?

I'm fine with people touching me as long as it's not my back or my hair.