I work in retail and often get people placing their hands on me when asking me something and sometimes it doesn't bother me but most of the time it totally freaks me out. I have to go to the toilet and wash myself and then can feel their hand on me for the rest of the day and it makes me shudder! I have actually thrown up before or I end up gipping! I know my reaction is extreme but I can't help it.
It's mostly older men that bother me and they're not doing it in a pervy way, it's just a hand on the shoulder or a tap but I can't stand it. I always withdraw from them in disgust and distort my body so they can't touch me again and I realise it seems rude but it's a natural reflex and I don't do it on purpose. I spend the rest if the day feeling tense and flinch/cringe when people come near me.
My colleagues joke and take the piss about it and call me a weirdo when it happens. They say they don't particularly like when people do it to them but they just shrug it off and that I over react.
Are other people as funny about this as I am or am I a complete loon?
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CinnamonBunYou · 25/02/2016 20:31
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