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Shopping online

Luna

When I'm back home again I intend to start doing more things and I thought about shopping but actual shops in town are bright and busy and loud so I'm thinking about doing online shopping but I'm not sure how that will work out. The whole idea makes me very anxious.

Anyone else do online shopping?

Parents

  • We do all our food shopping online and it works very well. It is a pity that my sensory difficulties with fabric feel make clothes shopping online impossible, as it is amongst my least favourite shopping experiences. The worst shopping for me is shoe shopping, I hate the amount of interaction that is usually necessary with shop assistants. Unfortunately, my feet are too high-arched and wide to take a chance with any footwear I haven't tried on.

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  • We do all our food shopping online and it works very well. It is a pity that my sensory difficulties with fabric feel make clothes shopping online impossible, as it is amongst my least favourite shopping experiences. The worst shopping for me is shoe shopping, I hate the amount of interaction that is usually necessary with shop assistants. Unfortunately, my feet are too high-arched and wide to take a chance with any footwear I haven't tried on.

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  • in reply to Martin

    Shoe shopping, that brings back many unpleasant memories, all the way back to infancy. My mother had a shoe fetish.

    When we were children she used to drag the whole family on Saturdays from one shoe shop to another, she loved the small independent shops where she would get a personal service from the shop assistants, where we had to wait for the assistant to get the other shoe from stock.  I will never forget the awful smell of shoes in these confined spaces.

    Many years later when I tried to enter one of these shops, I couldn't, I had a panic attack and collapsed in the street.  Now I only buy shoes in large well ventilated stores.