Avoid lunchrooms?

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Yes. The problem also lies that at my school you can only eat in the lunchroom, so I often sneak food around in class.

I don't have a job, I still go to school, but I absolutely HATE the school lunchroom! I have asked several times if I can eat lunch in the detention room, not as a punishment but so I can be somewhere quiet and peaceful, and have even misbehaved a few times on purpose, to get lunch detention.

The background hum of people talking doesn't bother me all that much so I don't really have a problem with cafeterias. When I was in high school I always ate with my cousin Cody and my friends RJ, Josh, and Chris (RJ, Chris, Josh, and I being the core of my school's geek bunch, though I was the only aspie).

I use 2 avoid lunchrooms and go to the park instead as its peaceful nice views and get rid of other colleagues loud voices.

i neveronce set foot in the high school cafeteria for lunch. i was usually outside alone, slowly dismantling my food or at a table in the commons with my weirdo friends. both of them.

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The more i used these rooms, the more I was baited by bullies. If possible, I would find a quiet place. Some of the more sensitive NTs did this as well. They knew about the bully, the gossip. Not all the NTs got along, but some were smart and avoided the troublemaker. I often did not realize until too late who to avoid. This is partly why I was terminated at my last job. The workplace bully engaged me in conversation and when I disagreed with her, she made it hard for me in the work room. The boss sensed it and let me go because I was too slow for the faster girls who would get angry (and cause all sorts of problems). And you guessed it, the bully was the fastest worker there! She set the pace, and the others deferred to her workplace 'prowess.'

Avoiding this lunchroom would have been the best thing, but I did not want to lose my job because of asinine social reasons. Sometimes, you just cannot win.

It was better years ago when I avoided lunchrooms entirely. It is just not worth the price.

My senses go haywire in those places. I honestly feel sick inside of them.

Yes - I avoid the lunchroom. A boss once told me I should go into the lunchroom and have lunch with my staff. My manager - when hearing I went to the library for lunch - asked 'why is that?' - in a tone of voice as if to suggest it was a strange thing to do, as if I had a problem. Stupid b***ch.
My breaks are my time to unwind - to do this I need to get away from people.

The high school I attended had 2,000 students-I was pleased/relieved when I figured out (from watching others) that one could spend that time in hallway, leaning up against lockers, instead (I've never eaten a "school lunch", not even in elementary school-yucky stuff).

In college, the cafeteria was gigantic: a two-sided, three-tiered hierarchy from hell. Trying to decide where to sit drove me bonkers, as if I wasn't already experiencing massive anxiety just being there. Often I'd skip meals (though they'd been paid for with the mandatory 'meal plan' for dorm residents), in part because I didn't like most of the food & my sleep times didn't overlap well with serving hours-but also because the social milieu was unbearably intimidating. Meals (food eaten in presence of other people)=anxiety & fear, for me. People would make snarky comments about what & how I ate, too-even though I didn't talk smack about their (disgusting, to my senses) food choices.

I don't work & don't go to restaurants-I minimize any potential occasions where I might have to eat with people. Family mealtimes (when I was a kid) were constant battle & I still haven't forgiven my parents for being such jerks about my reactions to their food (which they'd try to coerce me into consuming). Thank goodness my boyfriend (who happens to be a very foodie sort of person-he's a chef) accepts how I am & doesn't give me grief about my unusual ways !

I my university work placement there was another guy from my uni. Half the time he would come passed when it was time for lunch and we would eat in the refectory. If he didn't come I would just get a sandwich from the cafeteria and bring it back. I've got to give the guy credit I the guy did sort of look out for me a bit, even though this was one of the most disparaging time of my life. Also he would also drop by in the morning for tea/coffees. This was worse because it was right off the factory space.

When I did my A levels I didn't eat the refectory at all, even though I was boarding. I would go down the local spar couple of times a week and live of junk food. I pretty much stayed in my room, when there weren’t classes.

I was the same in university, especially from the 2 year on when I became increasingly more isolated again.

I avoid the cafeteria at my college.
I hate noisy places.
I usually only go in to grab a plastic fork (which I hope isn't stealing) if I forgot to bring one. I don't know if they're free or not. Nobody told me.
Then, I take my food and walk with it outside somewhere away from people.
I have this trail near my college that goes down to a creek. It doesn't have benches or anything, I just sit somewhere and eat.

remind me not to attempt this in winter.

I avoid the cafe for the most part. Eat at my desk. Been doing this for as long as I can remember.... Never thought about it or thought it weird.

I usually eat alone, so no lunchrooms or busy restaurants for me. Buffets are the worst. I end up feeling like herded livestock. At conferences, I would go hungry and wander around outside.

I eat lunch at my desk at work. Or i go out and get something done during my lunchbreak (run necessary errands etc)

I don't sit in the communal rooms, or with other people, or go out with other people to cafes and restaurants.

Wow, I thought I was the only person who can't eat in a cafetaria
Luckily at my high school I could eat outside or go home if I had a long lunch break.

Food stenches, crowds, "eating" noises and slurping.... Belching, laughing for no reason.... NO THANKS! I'll go off by myself to eat or sit quietly.

Charles