Is hating to Shop an Aspie Thing?

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I love shopping. Books, random collectibles, anything.

I'm not ecstatic about going to the store for grocery shopping, although I don't mind it. In my store though, I do find the tvs they've put in to be annoying. Keeps showing store adverts and cooking tips. I hate walking under them mostly because I just hate that they put them in. Instead of putting sanitary wipe dispensors at the meat products (which could needlessly say help them in avoiding lawsuits for food poisonig) they decided to instead put up big televisions. So every time I pass by or under one of them it just reminds me of that.

I HATE shopping, too. I go grocery shopping, but I wish I didn't have to do so. I HATE shopping for clothes. That's just something I don't do. I buy a lot of things online. That solves a lot of the problems.

I think it IS common among those with Asperger's. I just think that for some it's bothersome, and for others it's not. But, I hate going into public, I think is the main thing, especially by myself. It has really helped me just to have my son (now three years old) with me! LOL He also has Asperger's. We both have mild Tourette's syndrome, too.

~Tara~

I'm okay with book shopping, especially in smaller used bookstores. Even grocery shopping isn't too bad, but more because it's means to a very good end (I love cooking). I hate dealing with cashiers, but one store here has automated computer checkouts you can use yourself, which makes things easier. Overall, though, I detest shopping. I don't shop for clothes, and just wait for clothing swaps and hand-me-downs from relatives with good but frequently changing taste. I hate big box outlets the most and avoid them at all costs. Like edgewaters, though, I seem to be more okay in a Canadian Tire than a Wal-Mart. Once I had to go to a Wal-Mart, and I got lost (at 21 years old!) and then got into a panic over the florescent lights and noise and people. I almost cried and had a temper tantrum, and had to call my roommate on my cell phone to help me figure out how to leave the store.

Tangerine, that sounds like me in department stores. I can never figure out how to get out of them! It drives me crazy, and there's perfume everywhere and I feel like Im going crazy if Im in one for too long, I always flag down the nearest associate and ask "HOW DO YOU GET TO THE MALL??! !" (quick before i go crazy!) lol.

A lot of varied viewpoints on this one, I've heard that a lot of mothers have trouble taking their ASD kids to the grocery store.

To me the groc store , well symbolizes several things. In college it was independence, I could buy things for myself which felt great. The actual act of groc shopping was kind of exhausting esp when there was a line but I always felt GREAT walking home with the groc because I felt so indepedent and good doing it on my own. Some of my happiest memories of college are that sense of satisfaction I got after I did my own grocery shopping and walked home with it. Except of course when the bags were too heavy, then I just wanted to kill someone, or the weather was bad, even worse, lol. (Still the satisfaction using buffered the heavy bag thing quite a bit, surprisingly.)

Shopping in general I HATE, I hate anything without any direct purpose. I mean if Im going to a chocolate store or bookstore, I love that, but just shopping as a social activity, no way, hell for me. I hate the mall. It's a sign of how bored I am that I am going there tomorrow lol. I'll prob spoend most of it in Borders, though. I wanna read the rest of Senstation Kids, hehe.... its about sensory integration dysfunction.

Bottom line: IF its not too crowded or noisy and if its not the kind of place you cant easily escape from, and especially if i'm not alone - shopping with anyone else sucks- then i hate shopping, oh and if there are smells i dont like. but if its me on my own browsing interesting stores that i find interesting and i got my walkman and i got some money to spend then it feels good just to be out in the world and i enjoy looking around, enjoy it.

Kate

The only other places that I will "shop", so to speak, are at stores that have Lotto Centres hidden away in corners. That's when I forget about the Shopping and buy myself a Scratch or Lotto Ticket.

Hating to shop an Aspie thing??


Well if common taste werent so AWFUL shopping could be more rationally acceptable.

I mean, c'mon
How many stores and traffic and smelly uncomfortable unrelax looking bodies until something spectacularly just right enough to actually OWN is found...


um... yes?

I want soft and thick, but not too heavy. My fabrics are not woven from a dollar sensitive mass produced democracy. They are woven to be lived in and with care. Where can I find such finery as this. And why don't the rest exist in the same store: shoes, skirts, summer wear.

Could there be a store for us?
viola~severe head trauma or maybe the internet.

vivreestesperer, you just mentioned another one of the aspects of shopping that I hate most. Perfume! I hate it. I hate walking through stores and being assaulted by all the toxic fumes. (I also hate it on the bus, often to the point of needing to get off and wait 30 minutes for the next one.) I even hate things that are not-quite-perfume. Many local postal outlets here are in the back corner of a pharmacy, and the one I need to go to has a huge display of scented tarts and potpurris and candles right next to it. I try to hold my breath, but the post office line is 20 minutes long. It's unbearable. Almost every type of store you can go to (department store, dollar store, small gift shop, etc) seems to have a scented products section. And it's always next to the front door, or the cash register. I used to try to complain to them about location and lack of signage with scented products, but stopped when someone pointed out to me that the staff usually just laugh at people with MCS or allergies or other concerns.

I think it's a male thing, regardless if you got Asperger's or not. I like being dressed up but I hate buying the clothes. When I think about it, I hate all kind of shopping, that takes time or is somewhat complicating. Buing groceries is OK with me but not buying clothes.

I don't mind shopping for groceries or going to shops in a "strip" along a road, but I would rather eat vomit and bleed from the eyeballs than go to a large shopping centre or shopping mall.

I get visual overload when I'm at the grocery store. All those people in motion at the same time -- It's very hard for me to take. The experience makes me feel dizzy and disoriented. So I shop just once a month, and I pay a relative to keep me stocked with the perishables.

I don't like going to stores for books, clothes, or music either. I'm a female born without the shopping gene. I get all this stuff online. I'd get my groceries online too, if the prices were competitive.

I like to shop Barns and Nobles, Ebgames and Walmart but anything outside of that freaks me out. I'm not as calm as I am in unknown stores. I don't do will in crowded stores that don't have any electronics in it. Electronics are calming to me being around them are.

For most of my life, shopping has not interested me. Then my obsession with Sainsbury's kicked in - and has only recently become a thing of the past.

I went shopping this evening, and it was to Sainsbury's. However the only reason I went to Sainsbury's was to buy their shower gel, along with the other shopping I did.

Otherwise, I am no longer on speaking terms with Sainsburys (it's a long story) and will be shopping elsewhere. My interest in shopping has gone out with my interest in Sainsbury's, and I'm now blasé about shopping again.

I hate, hate, HATE shopping! Especially grocery shopping. Crowds of people make me very anxious - I hate feeling like I'm in others' way and I hate them being in my way. It's always too hot or too cold. Announcements on tannoys turn my brain to jelly and I have to stand there until the announcement is finished before I can use my brain again and carry on, by which time I'm even more wound up. People stand far to close to me and I feel like screaming at them. Going through the checkouts is really stressful as I feel very pressurised to quickly get everything packed and pay and get out of the next person's way, and the constant beeping of tills just drives me nuts! Phew, sorry for the rant! So in answer to the OP, no, you're not alone!

Yeah like others here most stores drive me nuts even without many people in them.

I have the usual sight/sound/touch sensitivities but theyre pretty bad (just the white background on this page is bothering me) so even an empty store is an assault on me with the tinny music playing and the cash registers beeping incessantly and the bright lights and all the colors and so very much text everywhere and images on every package.. throw people who arent looking where they are going or think they own the store and everyone has to get out of their way into the mix and by the time I get to the exit if anyone says a word to me I WILL throttle them until they turn yellow polka dotted in color.