Have you used one? If so, do you find people you show it to take notice?
I'm thinking of getting one but want to know if it's worthwhile. If it is, is it better to get one with a photo and personalised icons? I'd love something that might help in environments with too much light/noise.
I've noticed these are becoming increasingly common, and over time should become more accepted. I read a story recently about a young boy who wore one to the Formula 1 in Silverstone, and it made his experience a lot more enjoyable. There was a time when they didn't exist, and everyone was pigeon-holed into one standard (more so, at least). But society is wising up, and we have the opportunity to feel more comfortable in our own skin wearing a sunflower lanyard.
I don't know how valuable this would be, but maybe different coloured sunflowers to better illustrate the sceptrum, and accommodate varying needs between people?
If there are so many lanyards around that people don't know what they mean now, how will having different coloured sunflowers for different conditions or parts of the spectrum help?
Does anyone feel more vulnerable wearing a sunflower lanyard? It could make people more likely to be targeted by bullies etc?
I can appreciate it's a risk opening yourself up as a target for ridicule? Its not nice to hear about the lanyard doing the opposite of help for you.
It's hard to trust people sometimes. The point of wearing one is to make people recognise you might need help more, but if they take advantage of that things can be really nasty. The user below mentions about using it in shops, so maybe wearing it for specific circumstances is when the lanyards are most effective.
The different colours was an interesting thought, would likely take a while to be recognised. But ways for people to acknowledge and appreciate a Neuro divergent spectrum is badly needed imo.
This is Anglesey, literally the end of the line, we don't get as many delieveries as those south of Birmingham do. My son noticed straight away on moving to Manchester from the south east that shelves were empty faster and for longer and that certain things seemed to run out as soom as they'd come in and yet it would be a few days before they were restocked, its the same here. Supermarkets are totally unresponsive to customer demand or needs, or the volume of customers, it not unsual before a a ferry leaves for people to come into Holyhead supermarkets like a plague of locusts and take whole boxes of things and leave massive gaps on the shelves that aren't refilled until the following day, when it all happens again. If you want to be sure of getting something you have to sync your shopping with delivery times and tide times too
That is just such a poor experience. Sorry you got that response, TheCatWoman No-one should be othered like that. And the system needs thinking through by supermarket HQ. Deliveries overnight? I worked nights in a supermarket during the pandemic making sure shelves were replenished and nicely merchandised by 0700 each day, so I know it can be done.
I've not been mocked for wearing a lanyard and I don't have one, but I have been on the recieving end of ignorance about autism, like being told in a supermarket that they have times for people like me, 8:30-10am on a Saturday morning where they keep the lights and music low and also before any deliveries arrive so we'd have to go back later when its loud and busy anyway.
I've not been mocked for wearing a lanyard and I don't have one, but I have been on the recieving end of ignorance about autism, like being told in a supermarket that they have times for people like me, 8:30-10am on a Saturday morning where they keep the lights and music low and also before any deliveries arrive so we'd have to go back later when its loud and busy anyway.
This is Anglesey, literally the end of the line, we don't get as many delieveries as those south of Birmingham do. My son noticed straight away on moving to Manchester from the south east that shelves were empty faster and for longer and that certain things seemed to run out as soom as they'd come in and yet it would be a few days before they were restocked, its the same here. Supermarkets are totally unresponsive to customer demand or needs, or the volume of customers, it not unsual before a a ferry leaves for people to come into Holyhead supermarkets like a plague of locusts and take whole boxes of things and leave massive gaps on the shelves that aren't refilled until the following day, when it all happens again. If you want to be sure of getting something you have to sync your shopping with delivery times and tide times too
That is just such a poor experience. Sorry you got that response, TheCatWoman No-one should be othered like that. And the system needs thinking through by supermarket HQ. Deliveries overnight? I worked nights in a supermarket during the pandemic making sure shelves were replenished and nicely merchandised by 0700 each day, so I know it can be done.
