Being Tactile...

[Chancie]

I am a very physically afectionate person.

I cuddle and squeeze and kiss Pete and the small children in my life.

When I am hanging out with friends,

I am happy to squish next to them and laugh and chat, though

I am not very comfortable sitting close to butches other than Pete.

But I do have a very low tolerance for what I experience as being suffocated.

It might be because I have asthma, or because

I spend a lot of time with students who need a lot from me, or because

The adults in my family didn't have good boundaries about personal space.

I can't stand light touch that feels like tickling either.

Pete knows that it feels invasive and scary to me, and that

I might not be able to control a physically aggressive response.

I don't always understand myself, to tell you the truth.