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Sunflower Lanyards

LucyLandRover

Hello,

I wonder if anyone else has experience of using Sunflower lanyards to help service providers identify people who may need extra help and support? I ask as my local sainsbury's told me about these lanyards and would I like one? I thought it was a good idea but in practice I find it has made little difference as staff are not Autism aware and take no notice of the lanyard but other shoppers do and think I work in the store so then I get asked questions about where to find an item they are looking for which causes me problems as I struggle with the noise of the store and dealing with strangers.

I hope others have a more positive experience as I do think the idea is good in principal but it needs backing up with training.

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  • Following on from my other reply, here is the poster of the scheme.  I am going to post this on Facebook asking others to share to spread the word of the schemes existence.  The picture seems to be resized here to something which robs a lot of the definition, but hopefully most of it can be read.

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  • Following on from my other reply, here is the poster of the scheme.  I am going to post this on Facebook asking others to share to spread the word of the schemes existence.  The picture seems to be resized here to something which robs a lot of the definition, but hopefully most of it can be read.

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  • in reply to Trainspotter

    I've just written a complaint to Sainsbury's regarding the lanyard. 

    The main problem is the way they're made - the end of each piece of material is heated to stop it freying - but being a plastic, the heated bit becomes sharp.  I hate anything itchy or irritating, especially on the back of my neck - as do many other autistic people - and I could imagine this causing problems for people who are not able to verbalise what is causing irritation.  Put it this way - I have to remove labels from shirts and trousers to stop this (although oddly the washing instruction tab on side seams of shirts is often much softer and not a problem) - but now many manufacturers have started printing the label directly onto the material.

    Secondly, at my local branch, I had to join the long queue on 5 occassions at the cigarette kiosk to get one, and for the first 4 times, the guy working there was almost rude with his 'we've not got any' as if I was delaying his *** customers.  They no longer have a customer info desk.