I am going to Las Vegas

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I am going to Las Vegas for a few days in the beginning of March...I am kinda dreading it...I hate planes....I am not fond of Casinos...It sounds like a potential sensory nightmare...it is for a convention relating to our herbal business... i am instructed to try to have a positive outlook about it...Flakey thinks i might like going to a spa...but i have never been to a spa.. i am not a spa-like person...I am worried that they might treat me badly due to my shabby awkward demeanor...I am worried I will not be the best entertainment for Flakey..not to mention a bad representative for the business i own....I won't be able to bring any medication with me for reasons I can't explain...unless I am able to find a really understanding psych within the next few days who is willing to give me a script......I am just nervous nervous nervous..i would at least need something for anxiety...

There is so much more to Las Vegas than Casinos anymore... Chances are that at most you *might* have to cut through the casino area of a hotel to get to where you are going for the convention, but depending on the hotel you might not have to. I would suggest calling ahead to ask so that you'll know. It seems like that would be more comforting to have the information ahead of time.

If you do not like people you do not know touching you, then you probably would not like a spa treatment. I say probably because it could be so different to you than normal touching that you do not equate them as the same thing, but I would suggest trying that out in a more familiar environment really. Like before you leave on the trip, start with something very simple like a manicure. I have only had a mani/pedi/facial thing done one time... It did not weird me out terribly, but I felt like I would rather do that sort of thing myself at home than go to a salon again. It is supposed to be incredibly relaxing and pampering, but with my short attention span and tendency to fidget it wasn't really. I felt like I was making the girl doing my nails job so much harder! I think my three and four year old nieces were more still than I was!

I would not worry about being Entertaining for Flakey. There really is a lot to do in Vegas.

I would not worry about seeming odd in Vegas either... They have video game and sci-fi conventions there. Trust me, they are used to "weird".

I hate Las Vegas

I've never been to Vegas, but I have known a gambling addict, so I've been dragged into an Indian Casino, and they are excruciatingly noisy places, with a thousand video slot machines bleeping and blooping and ringing and dinging at once, along with crusty, dingy rumpled people oozing desperation and despair like strong BO, stumbling from machine to machine, sitting elbow to elbow with other hapless losers, drinking free booze and filling the place from wall to wall, floor to ceiling with rancid cigarette smoke. Wow, what fun, who wouldn't want to use their vacation making a pilgrimage to a Mecca like that?

I completely understand your anxiety. I suggest at the very least a fully loaded iPod and a set of backup earbuds. A portable tank of oxygen and a full mask probably wouldn't hurt, either.

The Strip casinos in Vegas aren't that smoky, they have like hospital grade ventilation so even though everyone is smoking in them it doesn't linger. Also I hear they actually pump extra oxygen into the casinos so people can stay awake/drink for longer and waste more money gambling. I'm not sure if that's true but I definitely get superhuman drinking power from something in Vegas

Vegas is a sensory nightmare for sure. I dunno I've been able to have fun when I've been there, but yeah it does kind of suck generally. There is a lot to do though, make the best of it.

Poopy, it sounds like you do everything Flakey wants, you never get to do anything YOU want. Flakey drags you here and drags you there and you put up with it. Flakey sleeps with a bunch of hot young things and then puts you in the position of being "house mom" to a bunch of bitter NT women, and you go along. Flakey has concerts with "noise" music and forces you to be the bartender, and you go along. Flakey keeps you up all night watching zombie movies at full volume, and you don't complain. It's time that Flakey stopped walking all over you, for godsakes!

If you can't get another guy, so what? If you have to go on SSI (it sounds like you're not getting much cash from this concert hall thing, and no amount of cash is worth what you put up with), so what? You can't live like this forever. You're gonna snap someday, and then you WILL be in trouble, like loony bin or even jail type trouble, and THEN what will you do? A casino is HELL for an aspie, they are full of bright lights and funhouse mirrors and jarring noises and stinky people, and you WILL go crazy. I NEVER liked casinos, Nevada runs on them but I found that most residents don't set foot in them unless they work there.

A spa treatment is a sensory NIGHTMARE, you have some strange person using weird "natural" stuff on your skin and it feels like your skin is crawling, and there's the massages where you have to be NAKED with only a towel wrapped around your waist, your breasts are exposed. ICK! You're on a hard table, laying on your stomach with a towel around your waist, and some strange person is kneading your skin. It's CREEPY! It's so creepy that California calls it "prostitution" when masseuse and client are different genders, because there's usually an expectation of a "happy ending". I personally call it violation of personal space, and aspies don't like that. You really need to stop letting Flakey dictate your life.

1. Because Vegas went "family style vacation" there is way more to it than the casinos. There are shows, restaurants, shopping, hell they even have golf!

2. Most spas do not have disreputable (or coerced) people working in them as sex workers. Going to a Spa does not even mean you would have to get a massage in the first place.

Personally I am not a huge fan of either of those places, however reading your post was enough to stress me out and I do not even have the sensory issues that you do! Not helpful!

I do agree that it seems Flakey never has to do any of the compromising though.