UK supermarket Morrisons introduces 'quiet hour' for autistic shoppers
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44884183
thats great, you really never think of this stuff but talk to the parent of an autistic child and it’s pretty tough with sensory problems and such
I used to work with this lady who had a child who was a high functioning autistic child, however places like the store and the mall drove the kid to tears because of the exact thing they’re turning down in the store’s quiet hour. She said some of his first words he would respond to were things like “mall” and “store” which the kid associated with that trauma and he’d sob eyes out
Really sucks that this probably wouldn’t go down well in the US. There’s a pretty bad stigma on autism and similar things. You’d have jackasses crying “SAFE SPACES?????” And shit
Really great idea
nice ill start doing my shopping at autistic hour
That's great. I'm not autistic (at least, not diagnosed), but I love me some silence, especially when I have the luxury of it being outside of my home.
hangover shopping hour
I'm not autistic (uhhhh I think uhhhhh) but I'd go out of my way to shop at a store during a time when they're doing this.
Also yeah restaurants are really difficult to handle, I get overstimulated very, very easily.
Please do this in the US.
But make it quiet day and aggressively kick the people who come into stores to fuck around. I make it a point not to go shopping on the weekends, or anytime after school has been let out unless its like Costco.
Some of the Coles do this in Aus. It's a great idea
A lot of restaurants are actually dangerously loud to everybody, it's fucking nuts.
Music shouldn't be played anyway imo its unnecessary and often just crap
It's probably fine during the day but when store's near empty you definitely want the music playing in the background. It's fucking creepy when it turns off and all you can hear is some dude coughing on the other side of the store.
I hate restaurants with hard floors, few booths or dividers, and ceilings twice as high as they need to be.
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