Anonymous #1 1d

Don’t really have access to that unfortunately

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Anonymous OP 1d

Touch yourself

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Anonymous #2 1d

I will for both of us

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Anonymous #3 1d

((I’m a dude before any of yall weird fucks start))

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Anonymous #3 1d

Hmm idk if they have those on campus 🥲I am already in 3 clubs idk if I have space with 5 classes and work

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Anonymous #4 1d

I have a weighted stuffed animal! I used to have a blanket but it made my knees hurt

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Anonymous OP 1d

you gotta make sure you have the right weight for you (had one that kinda crushed me for years 😭) they also have weighted lap pads if you wanna cover a bigger area but not ur legs!! if you really wanna feel like the world is a hug, heated blanket + weighted blanket combo

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Anonymous #4 1d

I also had a heated blanket! I wasn’t a fan tbh 🥲but yea I have my methods of self hugging but it only does so much

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Anonymous #5 1d

Hmm perhaps, historically massages don’t really get me less stiff cause I feel so uncomfy during it😭

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Anonymous OP 1d

petting animals can also really help! being in big crowds like at a concert, you can also just ask a friend for a hug ya know? none of these are perfect answers but they help the skin hunger ease a bit

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Anonymous #4 1d

Yea I am not living with my pets currently :/// my friends are also “not huggers” so yk

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Anonymous OP 1d

Concert I would be so scared touching someone by accident

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Anonymous OP 1d

are you generally touch averse?

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Anonymous #4 1d

With people I don’t know? Yes but once ice is broken I am ok

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Anonymous OP 1d

as far as crowded spaces it’s like stretching a muscle, you can ease urself into it (i’m extremely touch averse but there’s like a switch in my brain for crowded areas) also there’s other ways to make physical contact with ur friends, smaller doses for everyone (i used to rough house w/my friends 😭)

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Anonymous #4 1d

I wouldn’t know how to make other physical contact lol. But I feel crowds would make me more adverse, opposite of you, when it’s more 1-1 or small group and stuff I am much more comfy

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Anonymous OP 1d

imma say this with love, you gotta be uncomfortable and push past ur limits in order to expand them

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Anonymous #4 1d

Touching random people sounds like very weird and creepy icl

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Anonymous OP 1d

Like I was a bar a few days ago and someone was like leaning over me and it was so uncomfy. People don’t like being touched by people they don’t know

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Anonymous OP 1d

it’s the nature of crowds, hard mode is joining the pit. i’m just sayin that you have an issue that can’t be solved immediately. your options are to stay uncomfortable and do nothing, or be uncomfortable for a period of time but have the baseline discomfort lessen

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Anonymous #4 1d

Joining what?

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Anonymous OP 1d

mosh pit lol

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Anonymous #4 1d

Oh. I don’t like music that has those

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Anonymous OP 1d

well bro i unfortunately think you might be SOL here, ur kinda boxing urself in a corner

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Anonymous #4 1d

Idk I tried to like that music I went to concerts and stuff and honestly I am like “omg this is actually so painful to listen to I wanna leave” 😭I can’t force myself to like it

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Anonymous OP 1d

I’m actually so cooked 🫩

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Anonymous OP 1d

more like you just don’t seem open to anyone’s suggestions, thats fine you don’t gotta do what you don’t wanna, but anything you do to try and counter it will require effort, work, or a degree of discomfort

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Anonymous #4 1d

I mean I think I’m open to meeting new people and stuff. I’ve joined like 6 new clubs in the past year or so and do a bunch of activities. Just every friend I make says they are touch adverse and not a hugger so like idk what to do, I guess it’s a really common thing. And I just don’t like that music at all I can’t 😭

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Anonymous OP 1d

that was a joke, any concert venue on the floor or standing room only that kinda thing

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Anonymous #4 1d

Wait what I missed it 😭

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Anonymous OP 1d

the purpose isn’t to relieve muscle stiffness it’s to be touched lmao and idk how you can be uncomfortable during a massage when that’s the whole point. idk how touch starved you can be if you’re uncomfortable paying to be touched

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Anonymous #5 1d

I mean fair, I just get anxious when it’s someone I don’t know, I’m not sure there is any massage places on campus (I’m in a very rural area) but I can check it out!

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