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Do you tend to wander off without telling them? My mom gets annoyed when I do this but I can't help it! I'm just rather curious about everything.

yes!! !!I use to freak my mom out but I get destracted and just need to check something out for a second...my seconds are evidently pretty long because then I couldnt find her....yow...Now I am an adult and myboyfriend and I go to the thrift store and split up right away because I have to check out everything and he just scans....then he has to hunt me down when he is ready to go home.

I do because I suddenly think of something for which I want to look, or to check the price of something, and know (from experience) that by the time I let the other person know, I'll have forgotten.

sometimes i do this when i'm with my wife. i know it must be annoying for her so we will usually go browse our own sections and agree to meet in a certain spot at a particular time when we are ready. this way i can kinda wander and look where i please while she does her shopping. i usually wander to the electronics dept if we are at walmart while she either gets groceries or looks at housewares or clothing. i get antsy after a while because bright lights in dept stores and supermarkets give me headaches and lots of people shopping causes some sensory overload for me.

Yeap, i often do, mostly because if i'm not the one shopping i have very short attention span and i have to do something so i wonder off. I hate shopping, especially when i'm at the mercy of someone elses shopping drive.

It always annoyed me when I went shopping with my mom and we would enter a store, walking right past the TV's, stereos, appliances, and all the other fun stuff that made sound, pictures, and had all sorts of lights and switches on them to play with. We would end up going to a boring clothing section of the store or some other part I couldn't stand. I would then wander off when she wasn't looking and make my way back over to the TV's and stereos to check out the latest technology! It did annoy my mom when I wandered off, but she would always know where to find me!

yeah, i have the person tell me the next three places they will be and then i'll wander off to the electronics department to look at the music and movies. One day walmart will become more organized or at least the one where i go. It seems impossible to find a CD in all that mess. I then attempt to organize the music section as the employees just stand back and watch bewildered by my behavior.

Yup - there's been times when I have considered putting a leash on my son. Luckily, we've both recognized it and we've gotten better about finding a meeting place before we get started. That and I try really hard to not take him unless absolutely necessary.

Uhhh. I don't run off.

YES! I'm 22 and my friends and parents have threatened to get me a leash! I get so overwhelmed in stores (but i kind of like it) there are so many interesting things to see, touch, feel, and smell. i just dart from interesting shiny thing to thing and get so distracted and lose all time, then i look up and i don't know where my people are! Usually they know where to find me, they look for the colored, sparkely or shiny things. I'm a huge sucker for paint chip displays in the hardware store! Its almost spiritual to me. I usually don't even know what the whole store looks like, just what little pieces of it are.

I remember when I was still living with my Parents and living in a boondocks town that happened to border a Town with a Mall that I had worked at and well at that time I had to get rides to and from work and I would get so frantic when my Ride did not arrive on time.

And I remember that one day when I called one Neighbor cause my ride was not there and then after my Dad did arrive well things happened so fast I could not even remember every Chinese word said to the Neighbor (ok ok I spoke English but im sure you get my point), and I told my Dad about having called and stuff and he asked me for all details and I was like I dunno I dunno and then my Dad said he would slap me and I said "if you do that I will press charges."

Then he said ya don't threaten to press charges and I said you don't threaten to slap me.

Then he said one of these days someone may slap you and I thought in my head "and then i'll press charges against them."

Cause #1 I don't like being Hit and #2 I don't like it when someone threatens to hit me and my Dad said he threatened only to get my attention (I thought oh that's not attention grabbing that is intimidation).

Last time my Dad ever did threaten to slap me, I still lived in a boondocks town but I walked to nearest Gas Station to call the Office of The Prosecutor, not to leave any names (but to ask a Legal Question).

After I got my answer I told my Mom and my Dad both that um guess what according to the Prosecutor's Office my Dad threatening to slap me was Illegal.

Well that finally gave my Dad the hint of just how much threatening to slap me absolutely intimidated me, not to mention my Parents already know im Autistic and that hey you do not wanna make me mad.

I mean ok threatening to do that was not even a regular thing but the few times it happened it so made me mad and everytime he threatened to I threatened him with Prosecution and well last time I showed just how deadly serious I meant it when I called the Prosecutors office asking Legal questions but I never told them who I was or who my Dad was or anything like that (not to mention I was 20 when it happened so this would have been an Adult prosecuting another Adult had a prosecution gone forth which did not have to cause well im 27 now and this was last time my Dad ever threatened to slap me).

Hey ooohprettycolors, I think your Parents need to realize that you are 22 yrs old and thus not a Child and I think they should be glad they know where to find you.

Ok I can understand them getting worried, even my Parents still get worried (although I understand why due to the murder of an Uncle when he was 33 he would be 52 if still alive, he either had Brain Damage or MR, im not sure but he did have a good paying job as well as a Liscense and Car, was Married and Divorced twice, his 1st wife also passed on, his 2nd Wife is still alive as far as I know).

Still though a point in time comes when a Parent does have to realize they can't always protect their Child, heck all 4 of my Grandparents are Dead (my Dad was 16 when his Dad died and my Mom was 24 when her Dad died, my Dad already has made it past age 46 the age his Dad lived to be but has not yet gotten to the age my Dad's Mom lived to be which was 52 although it's getting closer since Dad is gonna be 51 soon).

Still though it's like ok although they do Financially help me out with Food and stuff (inspite of some feuds that have surfaced every now and then such as what you already noticed a moment ago), I do hate it when people suggest I ask my Parents to help out my Finances cause im like "let's play a game of pretend my Parents are dead because someday they will be."

Do it all the time, especially when I was younger. Once when my family was pumpkin shopping round Halloween when I was four, they hid from me to see if I would notice they were gone. I didn't.

What I like to do is use my cell to connect with whomever I'm with so that I can go veg in the bookshop while they do whatever.

RPM...If this was an English class...I would have to say...you are "Off Topic"...but since this is an AS forum, I would like to tell you that I like your writing style...it reminds me of the beat poets only easier to follow...Your writing is exactly what goes on in my head...(hope that makes sense to you)...
If it doesnt ,let me just clarify by saying it is a complement and not an insult...

I think i used to as a kid.
They used some kind of kids leash thing for me lol.
Nowadays i get bored to death in mostly all shops and want to leave before even going in.