Hugs - when we see something on here we don’t have, it makes us count our blessings. I do not have experience with your exact situation, but I’ve turned into a person who prefers not to be touched. Maybe it’s psychological because I have no idea what’s wrong with me, how I got it, and what IF I got it from somebody who touched me or breathed on me. But YOU actually have physical discomfort from it!
I’ll tell you something I do, however silly. I was terrified to find out I had cancer and needed treatments, right at the very start of the Covid pandemic, restrictions, and shutdowns. I already had my unexplained neuropathy wearing me down. The mask restrictions became a Godsend to me, because a regular person battling cancer in normal times wouldn’t have been as protected as I was since everyone else had to wear masks, AND social distanced, and sadly we also were in times of avoiding family and friends. As things have slowly eased up, we still wear masks in stores and any place that might be crowded. But my biggest trick is to cough through my mask. I seem to cough a bit because of the post-throat cancer treatment, so it was happening more naturally at first. People fear a person in a mask with a cough! That won’t help you if people sneak up from behind you, but mask or no mask, maybe it will help. You can have tattoos or tee shirts, but like parking signs, people won’t read them.

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