The word I got was ‘deterrent’. The task it to define what it means to me but I want to not that the first thing that came to mind when I opened my eyes and saw my finger on ‘deterrent’ was about people I don’t like. Not specific people, people in general. I guess I’ve always wished I had a ‘natural deterrent’ when it came to those kinds of people. Something in my body that gave of a radar of ‘don’t come here’ or ‘there’s nothing here’. I used to pretend that it was a thing at work. I would try so hard to project the idea of ‘don’t come near me’. I still do it from time to time but nowhere near as much as I used to. My anxiety was frightful back then. It’s amazing to look back on how bad it was. I was so uncomfortable around others that I literally wanted to ‘deter’ them from me. Anyway, I guess to sum up what ‘deterrent’ means to me would have to be something that pushes things away or deflects them, or even prevents them.  I really just wanted to write ‘something that deters’. It’s technically not wrong.