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I can't stand when strangers touch me

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  • #52
    Autonomous Cowherd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Autonomous Cowherd


    dollyk wrote: »
    This is sooo my daughter. Shes 13 and if someone touches off her lightly,
    she said she feels like shes screaming inside, hard knocks dont seem to matter, but little light touches can really upset her. Oh and dont even think its ok to try tiddle her, meltdown time .

    Haha by tiddle, I think you mean what I call tickle...my poor Daddy, his speciality (in the long ago) was tickles and he could tickle all five of the others and then look at me with despair because he was likely to get a swift kick if he even thought about it.


  • #53
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,844 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    You wouldn't be a fan of dogging then..


  • #54
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Oh yeah I hate strange people touching me. Strange, crusty people with their scabs and their gum disease.

    Urugggghhhhhh.


  • #55
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    OP be like (skip to the end)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCeQLeQiRP4


  • #56
    frillyleaf
    Registered Users Posts: 801 ✭✭✭frillyleaf


    I *hate* when someone invades my personal space, it makes me feel like I'm going to vomit and causes me to freak out😄 but it dependeds on the situation!

    In situations where it's bound to happen out of no fault eg front of concert, bumping into someone on busy transport etc that doesn't bother me at all as there's nothing anyone can do about that.

    But....I hate when men I don't know (eg not my friends) touch me or place their hands on me. Eg last week an older man in a bar was talking to a group of people and for some reason he placed his hand on my shoulder while doing so, I've never met this person and he was drunk.

    I Squirmed away from him and I took his hand off me. If he didn't I would have told him to as I have done in the past.


    Also last year there was an older man standing so close to me that I could feel his stomach on my back when there was ample space for him to step back. I got really annoyed with this and turned around to him infront of the group he was with and asked him to politely move away from me as he is standing too close to me. It happened again a few minutes later and safe to say that the next time I wasn't so polite, he was a little shocked by my reaction but I don't think I was being unreasonable😋


  • #57
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I hate strangers touching me too. Especially when I'm not expecting it. Last year I was queuing in a busy shop, head stuck in my phone of course. Second till opened and I didn't notice. Lady behind me starts poking me and for some reason it made me so mad. I turned around and said it straight out "don't touch me". She pointed to the till and I marched off highly indignated. But quite embarrassed at how rude I'd been but meh she gave me a fright


  • #58
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    I see old men 'accidentally' do it to young women all the time, its definitely a pervy control thing.


  • #59
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Bredabe wrote: »
    Far fewer ppl bumping into and off me here in London, than Dublin!

    Agreed. There's a lot more respect for personal space in London.

    You might get jostled or bumped into, but no-one is employing their hands. And I think its hands that are the problem.


  • #60
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    stimpson wrote: »
    You can get the deluxe model here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-pvJ-2KQQ


    "guarantees you absolutely zero personal contact with other people"

    I'd say that is also handy in rainy weather too.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #61
    PraxisPete
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭PraxisPete


    I had the misfortune of trying to board a Luas at rush hour last week. Everyone was standing there with bags, arms out, standing facing their mates etc taking up huge amounts of space leading to people not being able to board. I jumped on anyway and I'd say another 5 or 6 people would have fit if everyone wasn't so selfishly precious.


  • #62
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    A lot of the reactions here actually seem worse than the scenarios that inspired them.


  • #63
    Crazyteacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭Crazyteacher


    A friend of my parents gave me a hug on the street a few weeks ago. I'll be honest, I winced. I think only people whom I am close to should be in in my personal space. I'm not a huggy person. It seems false coming from someone that's not one of my friends or family.


  • #64
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »
    You'd hate me so. I always give people a rub on the arm when im saying goodbye. Habit I picked up in work. I find it harmless and it'd never bother me if someone did it to me. I find it quite friendly.

    If the women at work started rubbing my arm when they were saying goodbye I'd be pretty concerned tbh


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