#autismophobia

Basically, they're already obsessed with having physical contact even when they don't know you are autistic. It starts in childhood.

"Give your aunt a hug", "come on my knees", "give grandma a kiss"... And if you refuse, they insist again and again. They know you hate it but they feel proud when you give in to give them a hug or something.

But when they know you are autistic, it's even worse.

Sometimes they just force you to give them a hug, or they touch you without asking. They insist so much that you end up giving in from exhaustion, and then they're like "haha, you see, I can touch they, ME", like some kind of unhealthy pride, like they feel privileged to have managed to touch you.

I even saw parents / siblings of autistic people who were going to touch the person without warning by filming themselves, and then they posted it on the internet with the caption of things like "he is autistic but I can touch him", "she is autistic, it took so long for her to accept that I give her a hug", "look, by dint of perseverance, now he no longer complains" etc... It's almost like they're bragging about how they've managed to exhaust the person to the point that they accept of being touched. And I know what it's like, I've known people like that : in the end you're just so fed up, you're just so tired that you let them hug you trying to imagine you're not in your body.

It's extremely violent to come across these kinds of videos when you are autistic.