On touch

[The People]

We have been chatting with someone about touch. Won't get into why it came up but we explained to her that it brought out fight or flight with us unless it is kids or animals. We have gotten better as we can hug friends when we see them. And we must say that we like that. Although it pretty much has to be planned. We still don't like relative strangers hugging us and sometimes they insist which really pisses us off.

It is hard. We are human and like most humans have the need to be touched. But when someone does it we want to run screaming from the room. We have always known this but never saw it as a fight or flight issue until the topic came up. Sucks. Thank goodness for kitties.