Aspie guys and Urinals

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I just found this thread on the 2nd page.

Interesting, a thread about urinals.

I can understand feeling arkward or shy about this, this is certainly not exclusively an aspie/autism thing, everyone is different. I can pee at a urinal comfortably with no problem. I find them to be quicker and convenient, and will usually use one instead of having to go into a stall, but that's me.

Last edited by chrisno51 on 30 Jan 2009, 7:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

So long as there's a partition between the urinals, even a small one, I'm fine. When there isn't, like in my former Chemical Engineering building's bathrooms, it's a bit hard for me (especially when one of my professors had the habit of talking to me when he was at the next urinal).

I'm also reminded by Fnord of a conversation in high school:

"I hate the girls' bathrooms here! The locks are always breaking, so you have to hold the door shut while sitting on the toilet!"
"Your bathroom stalls have doors?..."

Now talking, I'm not usually for that. I have experienced that a few times. I once used one of those trough urinals, and I happened to know the person that was there too, and he started to carry on a conversation. I didn't mind too much, as I did know who it was, but it did make me feel a little bit arkward.

LOL! That quote is kinda funny. All stalls should have doors with working locks. IMHO

Ever had a gay guy hit on you while you're using the urinal?

It happened to me a few times back when I lived in a dorm where 40 guys had to share one bathroom.

Tip: One guy in particular seemed to be very persistent about peeing in the stall right next to me and trying to start up a conversation. He quit doing that after I once responded and "accidentally" turned to face him and sprayed him.

Through elementary school I refused to urinate in the urinals if someone was in the bathroom, not in a stall. If they were in a stall I would try to pee ASAP it didn't always happen how I would've liked it too. I recall going many weeks without peeing for 6 hours+ every day.

i never use a urinal trough. the stench is unbearable as it wafts up. i always choose a cubicle (an enclosed toilet).

even that is disgusting and i never "sat down" on a public toilet.

the smell of other peoples waste is unbearable by me and if i have to do a wee wee then i will go in and hold my breath and use a cubicle and squeeze hard to hurry it up.
then i wash my hands and leave the tap on if they have no paper towels for me to turn it off with.

when i get out of the "gents" i finally breathe large lungsful of air and i am happy that i am out of there.
people stink so bad.

I can inform you that the ladies isn't any better.

Neither do I. I have VERY strong thigh muscles from long range bike rides so I put them to good use squading above the toilet if I have to "sit" on it.

Just go in the urinal and then flush it when your done or before and after if you desire and then wash your hands and leave. If someone else comes in and uses the one next to you then ignore them. If they start talking to you then respond without looking at them but rather at what you are doing. It really isn't all that difficult if you think about it.

Look here for a bit of equal opps

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en ... a=N&tab=wi

I wonder if the users would hang around for ages talking?

In other words, you've never had an actual issue with people being next to you/talking to you. It isn't a matter of just ignoring them or not looking at them. For me, it was the stress involved with the senior year of my ChE degree, once I graduated, the issue disappeared, until I got to the stress of unemployment...

Public bathrooms are rancid. I just piss outside most of the time. Parking garages, stairwells, forests, side of the road, between parked cars, in bottles. I just have more fun that way.

One time, when I was at Pizza Hut with my buddies, the bathroom was terrible, so I just pissed on the side of the building.

But not the air dryer!

the ladies must be better. i do not want to instill crude thoughts here.

but ladies always strike the water in the bowl, and so, if they flush, the smell is quashed.
men drunkenly wee on the floor while they swivel around talking to their "mate" with their cigarretes dangling from their mouth and miss the bowl (or trough) and there is puddles of sticky half dried ...oh my god i can not go on.

there are also spit marks on the walls where they hock up their phlegm and blow it out. it is a nightmare.

i almost never go to public toilets. if i do, i have to leave my shoes at the front door when i get home, and wash the soles very fanatically the next day.

just being in the toilet is too much for me. it is the stench and the stuff on the floor that i am unable to tolerate.

My female friends have told me that in the ladies bathrooms a lot of women dislike the idea of sitting on the toilet seat so much that they "crouch" on top of it, and consequentially they've often come across toilet seats with urine on them. Have any women come across this phenomenon?