22 Aug 2006, 7:22 pm
23 Aug 2006, 4:14 am
Aspie1 wrote:
When I was a kid, I used to hate going to a store with my parents. In clothing or shoe stores, they'd make me try on every item in sight, only to tell me that it's not right for me. In grocery stores, they would say no to every single request I made. Now, however, I still hate clothing and shoe stores, but kind of like grocery stores as long as I go there alone.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. I've got to the point where I simply cannot enter a shoe shop without having a panic attack. When my Mother takes me shopping (argh) and she goes to a shoe shop, I have to wait outside and do my self-soothing routine of walking around in a 3-step by 3-step square while counting in powers of 2 up to the range of the billions.
23 Aug 2006, 6:17 pm
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23 Aug 2006, 9:44 pm
23 Aug 2006, 10:33 pm
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24 Aug 2006, 3:15 pm
27 Aug 2006, 12:41 pm
Keeno wrote:
Depends who the person or people are, i.e. how close I am to them. Many times I have been with a group of people I'm not really close to and/or who don't really accept me. At those times, yes I'm liable to drift off. And it doesn't have to be in a store. It could be anywhere. For example, travelling between airports this weekend with a group of people from another local church, who I didn't know well (or know at all) and who didn't really accept me. I ended up drifting off quite a lot.
It's the way that people find people like us "boring". I even end up "drifting off" from my friends (of which there are few).
27 Aug 2006, 12:43 pm
