What places of business trigger you, and you hate to go to no matter what?

[Aspychata]

The dentist never fails to trigger me. l just feel like my life is in slow-mo, and l am trying to leave as quickly as possible.

 

[Jumpinbare]

D.
M.
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[Crossbreed]

Court...!

 

[SusanLR]

Big box stores = anxiety every time. (Costco, Sams, Lowes, Home Depot, etc.)

 

[Shamar]

The dentist never fails to trigger me. l just feel like my life is in slow-mo, and l am trying to leave as quickly as possible.

Any places that are crowded or noisy.

 

[Tired]

I hate going shopping for clothes or searching for a present for someone I'm not very close to, for example. Because I never know what I need, i look at different options and nothing works, I become more annoyed and tired, and then I leave empty-handed and depressed. That there are people all around and bright white lights everywhere doesn't help as well.

 

[Tired]

Also dislike going to the hospitals breathing in the air of all the sick people

 

[monkeyclogs]

started a list for you but actually turns out easier to list places that aren't triggering

1. my house and my car (which i regularly use as a mobile safe space )
2. the countryside
3. there are a few of cafes and pubs where I can go if we sit outside.

 

[Masked Man]

Very large box stores. There is a grocery store in town that is absolutely huge and I hate going there.

The airport

Basically anything big with a lot of people

 

[JayLapointe]

Anywhere there is going to be a lineup. Particularly now grocery stores over the last 15-20 years getting rid of cashiers but still keeping the lanes. When I see 10 people in the same line and 5 other open but unattended checkouts it aggravates me. Then just folks have no gd line etiquette. Like I'm sorry I don't give a damn if there is space for your stuff on the conveyor belt, if you yourself are not yet up to the belt, don't reach around me to try to start unloading your damn cart. That's my bubble you've just reached into.

And too is the fact that in lineup's being close to folks you'll encounter those with, poor hygiene. Apparently it's rude to tell someone it'd be a good idea to bath before shopping, or simply in general. I mean I'd want to know if I was projecting a wall of offensive odor worse than a backed up sewermain.

 

[fattymeatysardine]

The library, more specifically the quiet room. How am I supposed to focus when all I hear is the bodily functions of others?

 

[JayLapointe]

The library, more specifically the quiet room. How am I supposed to focus when all I hear is the bodily functions of others?

I'm glad I'm not the only one with that thought. When I went to university I couldn't handle those rooms in the library. Instead I found a quiet desk in the basement between two stacks that looked like it had been put there temporarily and then forgotten about. But it worked for me .

 

[Tired]

The library, more specifically the quiet room. How am I supposed to focus when all I hear is the bodily functions of others?

like... people breathing or what?

 

[cooljethro]

The airport, hospitals... anywhere that has bright lights and lots of activity going on is probably going to overwhelm me on a sensory level.

 

[Shevek]

The hospital. All the financial incentives there are set up to keep me alive but dependent on expensive treatment. The staff also ignore my chronic conditions, causing a hundred times more trouble than the problem they might fix if it does not heal on its own.

 

[Dagan]

Vehicle dealerships.

 

[Judge]

Retail crowds during the Christmas season.

Too many and too intense. With holiday music always blaring in the background.

The one thing left that can put me into a shutdown.