Patting People?

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Do you pat people?
I pat people.

Im attractive, and cheerful, and helpful, and productive and ....careful of and at others (it's how I cope with stress, and loss, and hopelessness)-and this tends to make me well liked and appreciated-which only masks my symptoms, ultimately making me miserable.

I need to pat certain people in passing, on occassion. It is sooooo weird. Pat. Pat. Pat.

Even just reading about the remote possibility of being "patted" makes me squirm inside.

Yeah, Im not your dog, you better not pat me.

yeah I do. on the shoulder, sometimes on the head, but I stopped as I fear it made people un-comfortable, but yeah I think it's a way of saying I like you.

oh....I only pat Flakey...nice firm pats....and I HATE being patted....especially very lightly and unexpectedly...There is a very AS-seeming lady I work with and she seems to like patting people and she patted me this very night and it kinda sorta caused a mini-meltdown...in fact I am in the back right now because of it as we speak...

Hope you feel better swn

Working on it...it is really a combination of a buncha things and that was sort the trigger that set me off...I am just sorta weepy and my motor reflexes are real jabby at the moment..nothing major
....The lady..cooincidentally enough...said that she often feel the need to pat people in order to comfort herself....funny....

I am just more sensitive than I have any right to be...

She asked me if i wanted her to put the orange juice back in the fridge (I was making mimosas) and I mini-screamed as I accidentally dumped my half-prepared drink in the sink

Last edited by poopylungstuffing on 10 Jan 2008, 10:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yeah just a coincidence I guess

NO, I meant people in my family/friends list. Not random people. but thanks for your imput!

Been there- you will get through it- exhausting exercise always helps me- do you get physical exertion in your daily life? Just some friendly unsolicited advice!

Yes, like that...
Sometimes I either need to feel a connection or I feel the other person is looking sad or lost; and I just respond to it that way. No ones EVER said anything about it. And there are certainly people who are top on my admiration list who I would NEVER do that to for risk of offense.

The world is so 'socially tuned' that it is my way of saying, "I like you, but I love THIS person'

eeeeeeeeeeewww, that makes me think of when deacons or 'off feeling' males in authority put their hand on my shoulder from behind. Like their sucking out my goodness or poisoning my purity or cursing me. Sometimes good feeling people do this and that is alright. Otherwise...

yuk!

How do you know whom to touch and whom not to? Is it an aura, a "vibe," some kind of body language, what????

Sometimes I have the urge to poke people, but only people I know . . .

I hope your feel better soon, Also . I would try to tell the lady please don't pat me. I might bite back!! and I bite very very hard. Ok don't tell her you bite but maybe try saying it's a violition of my space. or some thing

If I think someone is going to pat me I run away or try to side step fast.