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Don't like to be touched

Rashford

When I've had a heated argument with a loved one, I don't like to be touched for maybe a week after.

Does anyone else feel or act like this? Do you think this is due to being on the spectrum? 

Parents

  • Yep. I don't do touch - although I wonder how much of that is due to emotionally absent parents. Or maybe I just doubt the sincerity of the gesture. I can do it if I have to, there's no warmth in it and it doesn't come naturally.

    Quite happy for a cat to park himself on my chest though.

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  • Yep. I don't do touch - although I wonder how much of that is due to emotionally absent parents. Or maybe I just doubt the sincerity of the gesture. I can do it if I have to, there's no warmth in it and it doesn't come naturally.

    Quite happy for a cat to park himself on my chest though.

Children
  • in reply to Ethan
    Ethan said:
    Yep. I don't do touch - although I wonder how much of that is due to emotionally absent parents.

    Quite a lot I would say. I would also add - emotionally immature, emotionally unstable, emotionally insecure, emotionally confused or emotionally closed to the list that can be passed on, transferred, picked -up on, copied, acted-out - by sensitive children of such parent/s. I'm not an expert so I'm kinda reluctant to use the word hereditary but that's how it feels like to me.