Cue every slow walker ever
growing up mom would take me grocery shopping. we would leave at noon and not return until 6 or 7 in the evening.
to this day I fucking hate grocery stores.
I’ve seen enough bread, cereal, milk, eggs, and fuckin potatoes to last five lifetimes.
I can still, 25 years later, draw out the floorplan of every grocery store in a 20 mile radius of my hometown. I can even tell you where the fucking pickles are and tell you what shelf they were on.
half the stores went out of business. what the hell am I supposed to do with all this trauma? it’s not like it can help me, nor can they hurt me.
make it end!
My mom made me spend too much time in nordstrom as a child and now i hate clothing shopping. I just buy all my shit online because I would rather die than step foot in a shop.
People.ask me “Why do you wear nothing but Vans and Dickies?”
Because I know their cuts and sizing and I can order the right thing first time every time online.
I’ve got adhd, and I’m the one that can’t go into the store without browsing. My wife lowkey hates shopping with me because she just wants to get in and out. I start considering price, value, but also have to consider if it’s a garbage product or not, oh hey, do we need dried noodles? We certainly could, I love cacio e pepe, but maybe not now. Ah crap! I needed tomato paste! Back a few aisles we go!
Yeah I have no idea wtf this meme is talking about. A lot of people seem to have this weird idea that ADHD gives you some immense ability to focus? When it’s literally the opposite. They hear about hyper focus and think that means you have some weird superpower. In reality it’s an inordinate amount of attention given to whatever is the most interesting thing to you, at the expense of focus paid to things you actually need to do. It seems pretty unlikely that the person described in the OP is extremely interested in a shopping task.
I’m exactly the same as what OP describes. I’m laser focused to get what I came for and get tf out as quick as possible as I hate shopping. Unfortunately my partner loves to look through the aisles to see what new products they have, it can be so frustrating but it makes her happy.
Oh man are you me?
Shopping is not a pleasant experience for us. The millions of products trying to attract my attention, the people I don’t want to talk to. It’s a hostile environment.
I always managed it by zooming through getting everything on my list in the right route.
My partner just doesn’t work that way. Hither and thither and lots of “just browsing” in between.
