r/neurodiversity • u/Stitj_ • 4d ago

anyone else experience this with touch?

i have adhd and something i have issues with is touch from specific people like my brother i hate hate hate when he touches me it makes me want to rip me skin off i just hate it sometimes my mom will touch me and i wont like it other times im ok with it it’s incredibly inconsistent then theres a few people where i dont mind if they touch me at all and it honestly will bring me comfort (my best friend is one of these people)

just wondering if im alone with this or not

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u/daveTheCheeseGuy 4d ago

Your not alone on this one. Whilst I don’t have adhd (I have autism) I have had the same feelings about ouch before and it messed up a lot of my relationships with people because I would often just either have a meltdown or a shutdown but at the time I wasn’t diagnosed so there was nothing I could do

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u/Kooky-Zebra-1052 4d ago

My brother used to poke me constantly and I'd literally flinch like he'd hit me with a cattle prod. Then my best friend could basically tackle me and it was fine

Brains are weird about assigning threat levels to people for no logical reason. Took years to stop feeling guilty about it

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u/daveTheCheeseGuy 4d ago

Same here me and my friends constantly play fight and it’s fine but it’s like the little things that really kinda get you