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Aspie Women's Hell (light hearted)

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Allofaflumble · 17/11/2016 13:53

Mine is the JD Williams adverts with Lorraine Kelly.

A gaggle of women, apparently on a break together, prancing around in their finery and make up, bonding. Approving and delighting in each other's outfits.

The hugging, the kissing, the faux dancing, the sheer togetherness of it all is so alien to me!!

Any one in agreement?

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Allofaflumble · 17/11/2016 13:56

Apologies for any incorrect apostrophes Wink.

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PolterGoose · 17/11/2016 13:58

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Allofaflumble · 17/11/2016 14:02

You would absolutely hate it Polter - it may be on YT if you are curious? Grin

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FaithAscending · 17/11/2016 16:25

90% of what I watch is on Netflix! The lack of adverts has been good for me Smile Mine would be any of the sanitary wear ads. There's always doing such strenuous activities with friends when we all know we want to be lolling on the sofa, eating chocolate and hiding under a blanket!

SwearyInn · 17/11/2016 17:58

when i saw the title of this thread i basically thought exactly what you subsequently described.

there is a girls' night this weekend. ii have been kindly asked. i accepted (as it got me out of something else) but i really really really don't want to go.

i saw www.girlsdayoutshow.co.uk/ advertised recently. who the fucking fuck goes to shite like that??

I just don't get it.

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FaithAscending · 17/11/2016 21:37

Oh I thought of one! I was invited to a baby shower a while back. I only knew my pregnant friend and the one throwing the shower (who I met once before and really clashed with!). I politely declined!

SwearyInn · 17/11/2016 22:19

Oh hell yes to baby showers. But have never been asked to one. Phew.

How about a "girlie shopping trip" followed by a group spa visit?

swoonmacaroon · 17/11/2016 22:22

How many weddings have you all been invited to? I have been to three and I'm in my 40s. My brother's, a school friend and my Own! And yes they are my idea of he'll.

swoonmacaroon · 17/11/2016 22:23

Hell!

swoonmacaroon · 17/11/2016 22:24

Sorry autocorrect made a mess of my post! Grin

Allofaflumble · 17/11/2016 22:32

swoon my son recently got married and it was exhausting. I was completely sober, lurching around hugging everyone (well over the top), chatting but completely missing or absorbing what anyone was saying!

I hate hugging people but it seems to be the way these days and everyone seems to want to kiss on the cheek. I felt I'd better just do it rather than offer a hand to shake!

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Mogtheanxiouscat · 17/11/2016 22:34

I've had one today! Group CBT course. They promised I wouldn't have to talk, it's just learning techniques. 5 minutes in..." Turn to the person next to you, tell them something interesting and then we will take it in turns to tell the room" BlushShock. I couldn't make any eye contact with the guy. I'm as yet undiagnosed but have never felt more aspie than I did today.

Totally agree the JD ad is horrendous.

Can I add hen nights!? Pure hell.

Allofaflumble · 17/11/2016 22:37

Another hell for me would be being dragged around the shops looking at clothes by a female friend. I hate to shop with anyone. My idea of clothes shopping, is nipping up to Sainsburys. Half an hour later I'm done!

I can't bear people touching things, feeling them, saying how lovely they are, then deciding something else needs feeling and being exclaimed over. Then off to another clothes shop to repeat ad nauseum....

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Allofaflumble · 17/11/2016 22:39

mog that sounds horrendous. Bet you were glad to get home!!

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FaithAscending · 17/11/2016 22:42

mog they offered me group counselling. I declined!

Mogtheanxiouscat · 17/11/2016 23:02

I have also never faired very well in any kind of mother and baby group.

Probably shouldn't leave the house, or watch the adverts!

HarryPottersMagicWand · 18/11/2016 11:55

See I am hit and miss with this type of stuff (undiagnosed but I suspect it).

Baby shower, yes if I know everyone. Sitting in someone's house with people I know drinking tea and chatting, fine, quite enjoy it now and again. Where I only know one or two people and it's someone's house I don't know, no, decline.

Same with wedding. Family where I know lots of people, yes, fine. Friends where we know them and maybe a couple of others. Not great but I'll latch on to the people we know and have an excuse ready (babysitter).

Nights out. Once a year really. Ok with that but define wouldn't want it to be a frequent thing. But once I reach that point where I have had enough, I want to leave immediately and can get a bit panicky and upset about the time it takes from me knowing I'm done to actually getting home although I'm usually drunk enough to cover it up. I prefer the odd night in with a few friends that I feel comfortable with. Unfortunately I now feel awkward around a few so called friends and try to just avoid them which is hard when you are sitting around the same table. They always know when I'm being 'off' despite me thinking I'm hiding it well. I find the group size is always too big for me around and it gets too loud and chaotic. We were at a restaurant last year and I spas sat next to my good friend and she was being really really loud and I was struggling to cope with it so I asked her to be a bit quieter and she loudly declared that no she wouldn't.

I always leave with the first people to leave and feel hugely relieved even if I'd had a nice time.

I have a Christ6meal coming up soon. I arrange it and have always enjoyed it as we have the meal, few drinks then go home before midnight. This year though I'm not looking forward to it as there has been a bit of a split on the group and there are some I can't be bothered to make conversation with, and this WILL show no matter how hard I try. We are going back to a friends after which is fine as we did that before and there were only 4 of us so all good but this time there may be more, one will probably be the one I don't want to talk to and and now another is saying we should also meet before the meal as well which I agreed to but actually I don't want to. It will. Make the night too long, I'll reach my limit earlier and I don't want to start the evening earlier than we are (7.30). She is picking me up though so it's awkward. Unless we can get the others to say they won't be ready earlier as well. That's going to be my reason.

I hate shopping with other people. I Don't like going on my own, but I also don't really get much out of it with others either. Grin I only go when I need something but it took me years to be able to go anywhere like that by myself.

HarryPottersMagicWand · 18/11/2016 11:58

Long! But I needed to get it off my chest.

Group therapy stuff is my idea of hell! I've had to do some though and every time we do the shitty 'let's go around and introduce ourselves shite and have a conversation with the total stranger next to us bulkshit' I make a point of saying "hi I'm Harry and doing this is my idea of hell." Thankfully they tend to move swiftly on then Grin.

Allofaflumble · 18/11/2016 12:07

Good to get it off your chest Harry Grin

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