I know exactly what you mean. As long as the stimulus is not overwhelming, I tend to feel some sort of touch after-effects. If I'm comfortable enough with the person touching me, this can actually be really interesting, but if I'm not expecting to be touched or uncomfortable with the person touching me, it can be really weird/creepy.
A lot of people with AS have issues with people touching them, to the point where some would even say it's painful. So no, you're not unusual for that, and I don't think it's nerve damage. I do understand what you mean by a lingering feeling after someone touches you, though.
"i was also trying to explain that i can feel when people have touched me a few seconds after the fact, that where pressure was applied felt chilled and tingly for a little while, and then it would fade."
I have that, too. I thought everyone had it, but maybe not? I know that the intensity I feel touch by others is way too much, at least. When most people touch me it feels like I'm being scalded.
I have HFA which partly means that I do not have the same social issues as people with Asperger's syndrome. It is written that I don't have the social issues because I don't care what people think. I wonder if that is true?
I do not like to be touched. I hate it. For me it feel hot, unpleasantly so.
It is my opinion that you will have hidden gifts somewhere to make up for it. a bit of you can't have one with the other. In my experience people pick up on your dislike of being touched by things like, how far out of a circle you sit and the bounderies of personal space. You may not be good at judging these things but NT's are. As for the friend who keeps touching you tell her once more that you don't like it and if she continues to do it she is not a friend. A friend would come some of the way to making you feel comfortable.
From what I understand we take information in in a very different way and it take much of our energy to take it in. Our thinking is more attuned to quantum mechanics than anything logical.
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Holy crap, I'm not the only one.
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I do not like to be touched. I hate it. For me it feel hot, unpleasantly so.
It is my opinion that you will have hidden gifts somewhere to make up for it. a bit of you can't have one with the other. In my experience people pick up on your dislike of being touched by things like, how far out of a circle you sit and the bounderies of personal space. You may not be good at judging these things but NT's are. As for the friend who keeps touching you tell her once more that you don't like it and if she continues to do it she is not a friend. A friend would come some of the way to making you feel comfortable.
From what I understand we take information in in a very different way and it take much of our energy to take it in. Our thinking is more attuned to quantum mechanics than anything logical.
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