ASMR muscle contractions?

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My sister and I have always experienced intense muscle contractions in our sides/back as a reflex to certain sounds that are close to us (such as voices in our ears) and can even be triggered by someone standing too close (even if we can't see them but we know they're there). I never knew what it was, but since we both experience it I figured this was normal. Now I am wondering if this is an intense form of ASMR that people describe. I do not feel it in my scalp necessarily. Most of the time it is extremely intense and contorts my back in a weird way, but sometimes less intense stimuli only affect the scalp. It feels more like I have the "heebie jeebies" if that makes sense. Does anyone else experience something similar? Is this ASMR? Don't you wish it were sometimes easier to verbalize personal feelings?

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a pleasant form of paresthesia, it has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia and may overlap with frisson.  ASMR signifies the subjective experience of low-grade euphoria characterized by a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin.

Paresthesia is an abnormal sensation of the skin with no apparent physical cause.  Paresthesia may be transient or chronic, and may have any of dozens of possible underlying causes.  Paresthesias most commonly occur in the arms and legs.

None of this matches what you describe.

You would be better off to leave the diagnoses to the trained and licensed medical professionals.