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NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 16/08/2019 14:26

Ok so i'm autistic and have a lot of anixity about being touched and noise. I constantly have my ear buds in to muffle sound also due to social anxity i'm often on the phone whilst i'm out either to my best friend or my mum.

A few years ago when i'd just moved in to my area i was at the self service and i dropped like a penny insteed of picking it up immediatally i carried on paying and was going to pick it up as i left which would have been about 2 seconds later. I had my ear buds in but the next thing i know this man was tapping me and i sort of turned and said quite sharply "don't touch me" his response was its a free country i said "yes its a free country to be autistic too" i admit i didnt handle it well but i dont like being touched by my own family let alone by a stranger from behind me with no warning.

Ever since then hes taken against me, blocked me from getting on the bus etc i tend to just ignore him.

Any way last night i was on tje way home from work from the city i work to our nearest town, i hadnt even realised this man was on tje bus as i got up to get off there he was and he stood in front of me blocking my exit and mimed putting earphones in his ears and said "i'm putting my ear phone in" i totally confused went "im autistic i dont like noise" trying to explain why i wear earphones constantly. I heard him say i dont like you. But fine ok.

Any way we i get on tje bus from the town to the villiage i live in, and this man again gets on the bus. I'm sitting at the back i do and say nothing. It gets to the stop we both get off at i've already chosen not to get off and to avoid meeting him, and get off at the next stop. As he gets up to get off he turns around and clocks that i'm on the bus and just stands there. He mutters are you getting off luckly for him there is some one getting off so it looks like hes waiting for that person to get off. As he walks passed the bus window he srews up his face what i guess is angerly and points at me.

Now this has really upset me and i dont really know what to do. It scared me, it was on my mind last night, i didnt sleep till 2.30 this morning luckly i'm on annual leave and didnt have to go to work this morning. What do i do i honestly cant avoid this man but it worried me.

And before every one picks apart my english i'm also dyslexic and on a phone.

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Unshriven · 16/08/2019 14:28

Just ignore him.

He obviously has issues of his own.

Don't engage with him at all.

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 16/08/2019 14:39

But i dont.

I was purposely avoiding him lsst night. He could jave just got off the second bus he still made a gester at me.

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