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27 Jul 2007, 9:57 am

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For me it's not so much the all the stimuli, it's the throngs of people walking eratically going in all directions at varying speeds and seemingly not paying much attention to the world around them. It starts getting me all hyped up and my heart starts to pound. I get "mall rage" and feel like just plowing through the crowd.

"Mall rage" is perfect for how I feel! I get dizzy, and I get acute tunnel vision at the mall or in similar environments, feels like my head is imploding. My chest gets tight. My ears feel like tunnels spiraling deeper and deeper into my head. Anger is how I usually express these conditions.

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27 Jul 2007, 9:57 am

It seems like if I have too much to look at this happens. I can't process it all. Those huge walls of stuff...hate them.

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28 Jul 2007, 3:37 am

I used to like the fountains...I would spend hours by the fountain reading and drawing....I don't know how many malls still have fountains...
like I said...my experiences at malls weren't exactly normal. I was not there to shop(never had any money)..I was there to loaf and forage...I was completely seperate from the shoppers..I would dumpster dive for discarded books...hide deep in the furniture departments...I kinda liked the smells and the echoing..it was like a big playground and I was seperate from everyone else who was there...i zoned out on all the different textures and things...then again...malls are different now than they were when I was a kid.
No more Woolworths...etc...
Now I avoid them like the plague..and am very prone to overstimulation..headaches..panic attacks...

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28 Jul 2007, 4:02 am

*quotes the entire thread*

Me too.

A quote from a blog of mine, written after I had been to a couple of large shopping centres.

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I hateHATEHATE large shopping centres.
Lots of people+
constantly having to calculate my motions so as not to bump into people+
having my momentum constantly broken (this is physically painful) by people stopping in front of me or just walking slowly+
not being able to afford anything I like+
searching for hours and not finding what I want+
sounds being trapped and echoing, producing a constant static+
beeping of cash registers+
loud beeping of malfunctioning electronic security gates+
loud, pounding music+
the hum of dozens of conversations+
machinery going in the food court+
the rattle of trolleys+
the sound of footsteps+
bright lights+
glaring reflective surfaces+
the hum of fluorescent lighting+
me not being able to shut any of this out+
salespeople asking how I am, and having to give a response when I can by now barely process the racks of clothing in front of me, let alone talk=
OVERLOAD.

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28 Jul 2007, 4:14 am

Who_Am_I wrote:

*quotes the entire thread*

Me too.

A quote from a blog of mine, written after I had been to a couple of large shopping centres.

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Just reading you're post literally made me close my eyes and block my ears afterwards. Just thinking about malls makes me do this for some odd reason. But what you described, is 99% exactly how I feel at malls.

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28 Jul 2007, 4:54 am

EatingPoetry wrote:

Quirk wrote:

The noise echoes around my head and I feel very disoriented. I usually want to go home after about half an hour or an hour at the most but the people I'm with won't always let me which is a pain.

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28 Jul 2007, 4:57 am

Malls are pretty unbearable and the lighting seems to get starker and brighter.

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28 Jul 2007, 5:34 am

poopylungstuffing wrote:

I used to like the fountains...I would spend hours by the fountain reading and drawing....I don't know how many malls still have fountains...

Ironically, you're "not supposed to" enjoy those fountains. You're "supposed to" simply glance at them in passing, and continue on shopping. If you're caught admiring a fountain, most NTs will think you're a weirdo, and will do whatever they can to make you regret you ever looked at a fountain in a mall for more than a few seconds. Ditto for any architectural touches the mall builders decide to put in.

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28 Jul 2007, 2:27 pm

The mall I sorta "inhabited" because my dad worked there..was an old-fashioned sort of mall. I think it was built in the late 50's or early 60's. It had a huge stone fountain in the middle with lots of benches around it.
Unless I am mistaken, it has since been removed.

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