Top ten LEAST aspie friendly places known to man.

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OK, well out of boredom I've decided to compile an amusing list of the least aspie friendly places on the planet. This doesn't have to be a specific geographic location, and can be a event or a thing as well. I'de like to see your guys's lists as well


10. The beach: OK, under the right circumstances a beach can be quite peaceful and quite, but as a general rule the beach is a go-to nuerotypical clustref*ck. If you've ever been to any public beaches, you will no the parking lots are packed, and the area where the public beach starts has hundreds of people camping on it. High schoolers of any kind flock the beach, and your garunteed to run into people you may no if you are in highschool/college.

9. The grocery Store/Any supermarket: Everyone has to buy food nowadays, and there's no better supply of food than the grocery store. Which is why such a place is packed. Not to mention the high chance of finding someone you may know.

8. A plane/Airport: Tons of people in the terminal, large and stressful lines, lots of standing, lots of looks from other people, and annoying people sitting behind you who keep kicking your chair.

7. Fast Food/Gas station stores: These normally arnt that bad but sometimes their can be really odd people in these places, and the bathrooms sometimes have absolutely no privacy.

6. The Bus: A giant moving box full of all sorts of people who may or may not sit next to you.

5. Clothes stores: I personally cant stand these places, and am only their when with an adult, or a friend, because they want to go their. The acquainted of some kind that makes me go with them just sort of makes me stand around and endure being stared at with no place to go, and nothing to do. For a long period of time. What the f*ck am I supposed to do with my eyes here? If it is a place like holister or something than its even worse.

4. Sit down restaurants: The vast majority of time spent here is sitting, doing ritualistic social activities to ultimately wait on food coming, and while waiting, chances are your gonna have to talk to the people your with. If you dont, what the hell else are you supposed to do with your eyes.

3. Any sporting event ever: This is personal prefrence, but I get absolutley no joy in watching sports. If its in someone elses living room I just sit at the couch and wait for it to be over. If its in a stadium, I sit at the chair and wait for it to be over. While being told I'm unexitable because I'm not cheering when your apparently supposed to.

2. Tie: House Parties/Church: Lets start with house parties. This would be the worst if it wasnt the fact that if your at a house party, chances are your familiar and comfortable with the people or host at the party.
As for church, this is kind of a personal thing. My mom makes me go every sunday. Ever since I was a little kid I hated going to church, and the entire time I would sit their and day dream. If its a traditional church its not that bad, as you just sit their and endure the expirience. If its a 'contemporary' church, or some extended time church where the entire time you stand up, and the entire time they sing songs, and sometimes speak in tongue, and make you really really uncomfortable, well that sucks. Luckily I rarely have gone to such churches. Also, it doesnt help that I personally believe religion slows down scientific and social progress and is largely the reason for basically all wars, and corruption in politics.

1. School: Need I even explain? This is the most judgemental place on the planet. You must socialise with people basically constantly, or else you get condemned and shunned by your peers. You must follow all the ritual norms in socialization to fit in here, because their is no tolerance whatsoever. Anything thats wrong with society is directly reflected on schools as well. Schools are the places where you are supposed to learn how to socialize, but for us it makes us HATE socialization. If your not being directly bullied (Which if your in middle school, You probably are. In Highschool people dont normally physically bully you.) your being looked down upon by everyone, and you are being constantly talked about. You are inferior in schools, you are less of a person than everyone else. And nobody feels sorry for you the entire time, and if they do, they probably think your MENTALLY ret*d.

Well, that got a little too close to home lol, why dont you guys share your opinions?

Number 1 most unfriendly place for AS?ASD people is (drum Roll!)
Junior high School (US Version). Simply put, Hell on Earth!
My Local Super wal-Mart is a close second. Too crowded, awful lighting, loud, etc.

Sincerely,
Matthew

Lol, had I known i was an aspie in middleschool ide be in your boat bro. Ignorance is bliss i guess.

Facebook, even though it's not a physical place.

Working with boring stupid people who think liking Coldplay is in some way cool.

School is obviously the worst place for me (since I never go out anywhere), especially since I'm the only teen (as far as I know) with AS in my grade, or possibly in the whole school. My NT "friends" often abandon me and leave me to fend for myself when dealing with bullies.

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Meh. I'm quite okay with most of them, actually, but I agree a lot with clothes store, house parties and school. I should add:

- The houses of people you only know indirectly: This is just a long time of agonizing over what can or cannot be done a) in interactions with people you don't really know b) with the actual house. Can I touch this or not? Can I sit there? Can I eat that? Use that? Move this? Walk in this room? Is it asking for the bathroom more stressful than sneaking around until you find it is impolite?

- Waiting rooms: Some would say the worst with waiting rooms is when they are full, which is not untrue, but I would like to offer the opposite view: when they are entirely empty but for you AND another personn for a long period of time. It always defaults to conversation between both, which might be enjoyable, but will certainly be stressful. And if the situation presents itself again (which is plausible), doesn't that mean you both know each other? Should you act like you were acquainted? Are you supposed to ask for the other's name? ... Therefore, I always have at least two books in my bag, and music.

- Funerals: I only went to two, so maybe I was unlucky, but then again, I don't think so. So you are being expected to be in a specific mood for hours, in a close succession of crowded rooms, with no socially acceptable escapes for hours (or even, no escape at all), and a priest. There will be dozen over dozen of people you are supposed to know, and to whom you are supposed to act comforting. They will let loose a long flow of uninteresting memories about whoever is dead, and they will be very close. Then you'll go to the church and listen to the most boring parts of the Scriptures while the priest says nonsense and every single personn gets overly emotional about a mediocre poem, an uninteresting quote or an idealized memory, and OH MY GOD PLEASE PUT AN END TO IT ALREADY!

School. School is awful. There is nobody else like me, but it's a small school, so everybody knows me. I often feel quite patronised and anxious.

DOCTORS, DENTISTS, AND OPTICIANS. I have to have someone I barely know either touching me or being extremely close to me. It's not nice.

My house when there are visitors I barely know. There's that awkward moment when I don't get into my bedroom before they arrive and have to socialise... which I cannot do.

Most places are OK on good days though, but a lot of it depends on my mood and anxiety.

I recently posted my experience/feelings on Dentist offices, esp. those of the "Cattle Car" type (pack 'em in). So that would definitely be on the list.
Of course, its the same for NTs too! LOL

Sincerely,
Matthew

Really? Nobody got the most obvious number one answer?!

#1. Without question: EARTH!! !! !

(Did y'all really forget why this site is called what it is?)

I'm surprised you didn't list hip-hop clubs

If you're looking for the absolute hellhole for aspies, then there is only one place, it's called prison.

Soccer stadia come close as second tho...

R&b & hiphop venues are third...

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Or mosh pits at any show.

At least metal-heads are talkative.

I work at a supermarket and yes I have to say its not a good place for aspies to be especially work at. For me, crowds dont bother me too much, I'm fine with being a shopper at the supermarket but for other aspies who get easily stressed from overstimuli and people, supermarket bad place to be.



Actually when I first saw this post highschool was the first thing that came to mind. And yes I completely. I especially like the part when you state that if your not being directly bullied, people still look down on you and being talked about. So true. I knew that happened when I was in highschool. See people often dont directly bully you in highschool, they talk s**t behind your back within your their little cliques and likely give you nasty looks. However if your aspie, you cant read body language anyways, so you dont know when they give you nasty looks. Especially if your a girl, girls tend to be much more indirect and gossip behind your back waay more often. College is much better, your forced into very little social situations you dont want to be in. The only thing really is class, but then they dont take attendance anyways. People often just come and go.