I hate it when people touch my face

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I am a relatively calm person but when someone. other than my wife or children, touches my face I get extremely upset. I try to just walk away without blowing up and I usually succeed in doing so. My reaction is so powerful when this happens that it kind of scares me. My blood begins to boil immediately, I want to grab their hand away from my face and break it. I want to yell at them and make them scarred of me so they never do it again. It takes me quite a while to settle down after this and I find that I will get angry with the person who did it very easily for several days/weeks afterwards.

Does anyone else react like this when there face is touched? What do you do to calm down after?
Do any of you have similar reaction to other forms of touch?

I don't have any issues with touch.

Tim

My reaction may not be as severe, but I don't like having anyone I am not comfortable with touch me in general.

If I'm not expecting it, I jump ! !

Recently a good mate playfully patted my tummy, saying I look too well fed. I didn't expect it and jumped out of my skin. Bloody embarrasing having to put it back on again.

I only have issues with touch when i am not expecting it at all.

For me it depends on the person touching me. I'd be okay with my bf touching me just about anywhere. I'm okay with bf's parents and the kids I teach hugging me. His dad once rubbed my hat,, kind of like a noogie, but playful and not painful. I was cool with that.

My own family and most others best not touch me.

who touches peoples faces? i would definitely call them out on it....unless it was scarlett johanson

I don't like it when people try to touch [specifically] my face. It's a big pet peeve, but I don't react as strongly as you do. I've always said/thought it was because I don't want them to exacerbate my skin problems, but now that you mention it, maybe it's an Aspie thing? On reflection, it does seem a bit extreme. (My grandfather tries to [affectionately] touch my face all the time. I've even asked HIM not to touch my face, even though I know he could keel over any day. Gawd I'm awful.)

I don't like being touched in general, but I am especially sensitive in the face and neck areas. It makes me extremely uncomfortable to the point that I may become physically violent. However as soon as the hand or whatever it may be is removed, I'm immediately calm.

I don't like being touched at all but I especially can't stand for my face to be touched...it freaks me out.

i let my guard down a bit wen a girls is touchin me.hehe. but face. wtf? i don think anyone likes bein touched on the face. aspie or not

If a stranger touched me on the face, I'd freak out too! Only people I know well are allowed to touch me...otherwise, hands off!!

Fear of being touched on the face or the head is not unusual and it affects all sorts of people, not just those who have AS. It's a fear which goes deep into our biological past and has the following roots:

1) Most of the human senses are based in the head and some of these such as the eyes are delicate instruments.

2) Damage the brain and we're really in trouble, most people therefore have an instinct to protect the head as much as possible.

No worries.

Ed Almos

I don't like being touched by most people, even friends and family. The most awkward is hugging, because people who are close to you - or rather, think they're close to you - expect it. I hate hugging in most cases, and if I'm in a situation where I'm expected to hug 1) I NEVER initiate it - it has to be the other person and 2) I try to make it the shortest hug ever.

I don't like having my face touched either, but fortunately this doesn't happen very often. The only real issue I have had with this recently was a very casual friend, someone I only knew through another friend, who was overly affectionate wih other women all the time. She would insist on hugging and kissing me, as she did with other people, and was totally oblivious to how uncomfortable it made me. I could live with the hugging - I've learned to tolerate that without showing how completely weirded out I am - but the kissing, no. She would try to kiss people on the lips even! Ugh!! I would hve to move very quickly so she would end up kissing my check instead. I would avoid this person as much as possible because of this, and I came to be so anxious about her trtying to huug/kiss that just the sound of her voice coming frrom a distance or from another room would make me jump.

In epitaph, the friend through whom I know this person recently "burned" me (the same one I posted about in The Haven), so I don't have to see the serial hugger/kisser anymore. LOL. And honestly, I feel very relieved by that.

WTH do you live where people are randomly touching you on the face?

i dont like it either