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Sounds cool to me. What sort of magazines do you like?

First of all I do not care what you think. Second of all you are in no professional position to be making any sort of diagnosis regarding personality disorders. The moment you stepped foot into this thread you decided it would be fun to put me down and go against my opinion like a kid with an attitude problem.

I am me. If you don't like me, don't talk to me. It really is as simple as that.

Are you expecting me to conform to your way of thinking? I asked for people's opinions on shopping and share their experience, not to criticise mine.

Last edited by jayjayuk on 17 Apr 2014, 8:30 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I like roasted chicken, and noodle salad with cheese.

Hope you never have an Aspie cashier.

My biggest grief is when items are moved constantly. I want to dive in, grab quick, and then get the heck out.

You want support for your continued bad behavior and irrationality, and I refuse to provide it. No one else in this thread who hates shopping has mentioned mistreating other people. Only you seem to consider that a reasonable response to a difficult situation.

Does anyone else here harangue the clerks about a store policy with which they disagree?

Policies go way over my head. Just like laws. I just try not to upset anyone.

Do I want support? Where did I ask others to support me? I don't recall asking anyone if they agree with me. The only thing I asked is for others to share their experiences on shopping. More to the point where have you interpreted that I'm aggressive to the clerks?

Please, stop taking the thread off topic now. You have your opinions of me, and you're entitled to them - although they're very much wrong but hey ho. I don't know what you expect to achieve by this, but for the sake of the forum and other people that may want to participate in this thread just stop.

Exactly what I try to do. But clearly I'm upsetting people.

All from your first post, all bad behavior, but if you want to act persecuted because I take issue with it, then fine. I've had my say. If you aren't a narcissist, then maybe you'll get some perspective. If you are, then it's hopeless anyway.

I tell my partner to stay at home when "I" shop. She will do her shopping before/after/whenever. What's wrong with feeling comfortable shopping alone? Yes I can get horrible because in situations where I'm very anxious I am frustrated. Panic attacks cause this. If you've never suffered them you'll never understand or know. It's a symptom of a panic attack. As for the last part, I've covered it. I don't agree with it. It's silly. And I've never met a clerk who has actually disagreed, which means thankfully I've never had to leave the shop and leave my food there.

I still fail to see how any of this is bad behaviour or aggression? You see you don't know anything about me, and you're painting a very wrong picture about me.

In most places here in California, stores are required by law to charge for bags, and only crappy paper bags are allowed. Which is really kind of dumb. I can reuses a plastic bag for all kinds of things. Paper bags are not good enough to be reused for anything. I just keep throwing them away.

I have an application on my phone (Android) called "Hungry!" which is a shopping list tool. It uses different colours for different types of products eg household, freezer, dairy etc. You can customise the meaning of each colour and add, edit and remove products, change category and input a default amount / number eg 8 Apples.

To add something to your shopping list you go to the tab of products and tap on a product, when you are shopping you go to the shopping list tab and when you put something in your cart you just tap the item and it disappears from your list (but you get a few seconds to cancel if you clicked the wrong one).

Together with ear buds and a hat or shades, this tool has made shopping tolerable for me.

I do sometimes have too many issues with moving my fingers to pack or pick up my bags quickly, also I am often nearing overload by the time I get to the till so I can only manage self checkout on a very good day or when I only have very little shopping.

I always have a foldable bag in my leather bag and keep a few "bags for life" in the car and usually remember to take them in with me.

dont think it has anything to do with inteligence, probably more due to impulse buying and buying when theyre hungry thats why they put all the junk food near the door ways.

am intelectualy disabled and dont buy stuff just because theres buy one get one free offers on,am always being told have got expensive tastes because refuse to buy the whoopsy stuff as its going out of date and the buy one get one frees; no point if are not going to use them,theyre better for families/multiple people.

as for the original question,we go at late times usualy to those twenty four hour super markets as theyre the quietist at late.
am a blue badge user so park in the disabled bays which makes it a lot easier on self.

have always got two support staff with self anywhere,and am a wheel chair user because of profound vestibular hyperacusis [dropping to the floor with the smallest sound], falling in a heap and head banging the floor from the sensory overload and full waist down todds paralysis from both sensory overload and epileptic seizures plus it makes it easier for staff to control self when hitting self or having challenging behavior.

am given diazepam before we go in to help calm down.

am wearing the strongest pair of ear defenders known to man; the peltor optime IIIs with neck band as it fits over padded helmets perfectly.

am wearing a black lanyard had been kindly given for free from staff at the trafford centres vans shop-which attached to it has PECS symbols on to communicate with,a tangle jr,a lego figure keyring of splinter from teenage mutant ninja turtles and a mencap trolley coin but will never use it,this all helps with distraction.

tend to grab all the junk stuff because of liking sweet things and staff try to encourage to put it back.
when weve bought the stuff we go to what ever till has no cues or to the ones that staff can put the shopping through themselves as have got severe anxiety with waiting and end up having severe challenging behavior which results in being pushed straight out with no shopping and straight home plus staff refuse to take self to shops for days afterwards out of risk assesment.

then we go out and back home to recover.

I get annoyed when I go shopping with my wife. She wants to go up and down every isle even though we know where everything is, this really angers me. When I shop alone, I move fast! My objective is to get the hell out before anger or panic takes over. I always encounter people wearing too much perfume for some reason, this can trigger panic attacks. In short, its a nightmare.

For a while I was going to a 24 hr. super market at 3AM. It was nice. I was generally the only customer in the store, and the store lights were turned way down low.

But then I decided it was more hassle then it was worth. Too many employees stocking shelves. Boxes left all over the floor. Some isles I couldn't even get through. Then there was no check out stand open. So I had to find an employee, who would call some other guy up. That guy would take his time coming. Then act all perturbed, that he had to stop his important work stocking shelves, to open up a cash register just to help me.

Lately I have just been going in the daytime. I know what I'm going to buy. I go in, grab my stuff, and get out quick. I take maybe 10 minutes at most.

For a while I was going to a 24 hr. super market at 3AM. It was nice. I was generally the only customer in the store, and the store lights were turned way down low.

But then I decided it was more hassle then it was worth. Too many employees stocking shelves. Boxes left all over the floor. Some isles I couldn't even get through. Then there was no check out stand open. So I had to find an employee, who would call some other guy up. That guy would take his time coming. Then act all perturbed, that he had to stop his important work stocking shelves, to open up a cash register just to help me.

Lately I have just been going in the daytime. I know what I'm going to buy. I go in, grab my stuff, and get out quick. I take maybe 10 minutes at most.