If you see a cute dog or cat you want to pet them. If you see a deer in the wild, looking so calm and tame, you want to pet it.
Then why, pray tell, do we not have the same desire to pet other people?
I am hyposensitive proprioceptively and tactilely.
I do both respond well to and seek this out in others that i am close with. I am of course mindful of social etiquette but if others petted me I would not mind. I would not mind doing this to others.
as it is, people that know me, know I am very touchy feelly, not in a creepy way or anything. They don't mind. my boy is exactly the same way and we are trying to teach him more restraint as he is older.