aspie shop :-)

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I dream about one day being able to run a shop just for aspies....

so many times when I go shopping I end up walking around and around the shops, not finding anything I like, just getting more and more overloaded, eventually giving up and coming home exhausted with nothing I wish there was an aspie shop, selling the sort of things we like ... without any annoying muzak. without irritating shop assistants who keep asking you if you need any help without any of those nasty cheap scented products that give you an instant headache from a mile away. and no headache-inducing fluorescent lights either. it's big enough to browse around the shop comfortably without worrying about bumping into anything or anyone, but small enough to not be overloading.

what do you think an aspie shop should sell? I'm particularly interested in the clothing as I find clothes shopping the most tiring and unproductive, I can never find comfortable clothes that look nice (you'll be glad to hear that all my aspie-shop clothing is free from those nasty razor-wire tags and labels that slice through your neck!:evil:) but what sort of things would you like to see in my shop?

Clothing- but I am weird and actually DO care how it looks. However clothing with a nice tactile sensation is always a plus.

sci-fi action figures

shiny, allergy-free costume jewellry

ban people with prams that have squeaky wheels

everything priced with a rounded number (i have dyscalculia so prices like £2.79 make it difficult for me to keep track of how much i should be charged and how much change i should get)

cashiers that don't try to make small-talk with you when you pay for your shopping

When you say non-sensory irritating clothing, do you mean like a birthday suit?

When it comes to sensory things in a store, I woud want:
All movies, music, and electronic game demonstrations in a sound proof area
A neutral smell, possibly by using citric acid
Lots of space to avoid being crowded or bumped into
Keep it extremely cleen and sterile, and mabe leave a tiny trace of the cleaning agent smell for people to notice
No small talk, unless initiated by the customer or they know the person
Sometimes a loudspeaker may be necessary, but how about a very soft tome that crecendos before the announcment?
Place the store in a nicer neighborhood to keep some of the crackheads and illegal aliens away so the place doesn't turn into a wal-mart for Autistics.

For service, I would want:
Lots of signs over shelves as a substitute for customer service ret*ds
Computers placed around the store for customers to check databases for inventory and loction of the item in the store, once again, to avoid customer service ret*ds
Though most customer service people would be replaced with computers, have a couple of customer service reps that actually know what they are talking about, and can be understood by all ages and skill levels (this would be very important if your store gets a liquor license, Federal Firearms License, provides some sort of food, or all three)

I'd say something about new clothing designs, but I'm a straight guy, so I suck at that!

hmmm...... i like your new avatar, sean. but what culture, exactly, would it be that considers what you do "normal"? nazi germany, perhaps?!

There'd have to be an aisle dedicated to shiny distracting things.

Half the store would have to sell music, good music. Not 5 different Greatest Hits CDs by the same artist like Target has.

No cashiers or baggers, self check out for me. No salesman, basically a self-running store.

A variety of shirts, I don't want to wear clothes everyone else is wearing.

Does that mean I don't get to shop there?

If you do open a shop for autistic people, please....please, for the love of God, sell non-grandma looking, stylish lady's shoes with low heels. And make sure you have plenty of the larger sizes available unlike 99.9% of these stores that think all women wear size eight foot-wear.

Oh, and if you have security, make sure they're plain-clothed officers and don't follow me around like an escaped convict (one of the reasons I hate shopping ).

Ooh, lights, lights! Gimme shiny, colorful lights (for temporary stimulation only. I can't bear them too long). Ooooooh, pretty lights...

super tight headbands please...oh, and a really loud,acurate clock.

I opted for the fluffy purple rainbow glitter, but to be practical GIMME THE CLOTHES! I think we should come up with a way of having comfy clothes that doesn't look too geeky. Why should we have to wear ancient, faded, well worn (softened) baggy t-shirts when we could get nice clothes that feel good? I'm thinking some of that synthetic fluffy stuff in place of itchy woolen jumpers, all the nice trendy singlet tops but long enough to cover your midriff and not ride up EVER, pants that are trendy but with minimal seam and that DON'T either come up past your belly button and DON'T show off your ass cleavage, socks WITHOUT SEAMS that don't disintegrate in a few weeks, undies with a gusset that sits in the right place, is long enough, and is stitched in on both ends, and of course, NOT A SINGLE LABEL ANYWHERE!! ! Honestly, the first thing I do when I buy new undies is cut the tags off. Takes me several minutes per label cos you have to cut it as close as you can without cutting the undy, cos if you don't you get prickly edges!

Aside from cool clothing (oh yeah, and a range of colours so that there's bright colours for those of us that stim with colour, dark/cool colours for those of us that go into overload with too much colour), bring on the stim toys! A few of my faves invole a special spinning top that makes these little amoeba critters dance, a brightly coloured rubber ball that lights up when you bounce it, a bright freen soft as rubber inflated ball that has all these little tentacle things on it (oooh yummy!), holographic glitter that you can sprinkle on your bedroom floor... oh and bring on the essential oils please! Although there has to be a decent way of doing them... so that they don't get all mixed up and they don't get all gooey and they don't make the whole shop smell like a cocktail! Oh and please, no babies allowed. Just... no. Perhaps at a pinch have a soundproof room to stash them in. But no crying babies, for the love of God! And perhaps some soothing music, something to stim to... something VERY repetative. Certainly non of that pop crap. Oooh and can we make the whole place soundproof? Block out the noise of outsiders? And no ticking clocks. And there has to be a better way of closing up: nothing quite like having the doors half closed and the staff all sighing to make you feel reaaaaal comfortable... if they want you to leave then just have them tell you, none of this 'surreptitious' hinting that consists of making you feel akward!

Traditional Western Chinese or American Indian cultures would probably suit me well too.


I guess. You don't seem to be the rabble type I want to avoid when shopping (more like hunting). Heck, if I was in charge of security, I doubt I'd have you followed around.
I should have added tweakers and white trailer trash along with crackheads and illegal aliens.

nazi jokes?...that's really not funny.

just one of those topics that should not be dealt with in a humorous way (really, it offends people. )

Having said that, I am sure that there are many Waco like cults that would just love Sean.

also...i propose that we all sing "aspie shop" to the tune of that horrible "candy shop" song.

me too, i love to get clothes that are nice to touch

it wasn't a nazi joke- it was a sean joke. and since he makes jokes about beating people up and spraying them with mace i'm sure he can take it as well as he can dish it out.

anyway, humour is subjective and i am not the only one who finds jokes about nazis funny. for example: http://femalefirst.co.uk/movies/Churchi ... ood_Years/ and http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dad's_Army

my sense of humour is my way of coping with the s**t in my life- if you want to criticise the one thing that has kept me alive (so far) then i hope it makes you feel very superior.

And squeaky children.



PLEASE GOD LET HIS BECOME A REALITY!! !! ! I think we should open a haircutting place like this too. Play music for the hairdressers by all means but don't make ME entertain them.