Cannot Stand My Classmates

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I am extremely sensitive to light touch. One of my classmates were about to touch me today, and I jumped back. Guess what he did, told everyone to touch me when they walked past me. I asked them to stop, but they did not. Is there any way I could deal with this? I can still feel the spots where I had been touched.

Tell your teacher.

I did tell the teacher, but she told me to grow up.

You could talk to your teacher and ask them to tell the class to not touch you and have the teacher explain to them why you cannot be touched. I doubt that they realize that touch can actually feel very painful to people with ASD. They probably think that a normal, light touch can't do any harm, because they compare it with how they sense touch themselves. Someone needs to explain this to them and it's best if it's the teacher.

If your teacher doesn't take you seriously and thinks you are overreacting, ask your parents to talk to the teacher and explain it to them. The teacher may be just as ignorant as your classmates and not understand that touch actually hurts you.

The only problem is, I am not diagnosed yet. My parents do not take it too serious either, especially my father.

Damn, that makes the situation harder. Is there a school councelor or someone you could talk to?

I think trying to explain something to a class actually does more harm then good. All you are doing is giving them more ammo to shoot at you.
I would strongly advise against it in younger classes or lower educations (more likely to have unintelligent people), I mean if you are following an education which attracts more open minded people for example something psychology related go for it.

But as you say they already use the touching against you, Its not wise to try and reason with them again after you see how that went.

When i was in what can be compared to high school. We had a classmate for the first year for whom the teacher asked us to show caution because he had autism (''we'' just thought of him as crazy and that was enough at the time). I remember someone saying he couldnt look at a piece of paper with many dots without going insane. Anyhow he was the target of massive bullying for many years, maybe still to this day.
It was obvious he was different but the teacher pointing it out made it worse.

If they continue to do that you should just say chill out, and then if they do not stop move across the room to sit away from them.

say if they dont stop you will file a sexual harassment claim