Re: Shopping - noise, decisions, hellish

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These two posts describe my husband.....very indecisive and

overwhelmed by a variety of objects to choose from.

While he didn't support me financially, he never went without things

for himself....which sometimes cost a lot.

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> You have just helped me to understand how my husband could go to

the store and buy something we didn't need and couldn't afford. Then

try to hide it as long as he could.  When he was finally caught with

the goods, he could never come up with a good reason for buying it. 

(my opinion of course) He would try to explain the dire need of the

item.  Then he would go to the point of lying to me to cover up his

mistake.  Many times, I had thought it was something we had already

discussed and he had agreed with me not to get it.

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> So as I understand all this (Now) the AS can cause compulsive buying

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> Hi catdan,

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> I'm sure Ron is going to respond soon enough, but this statement

struck me rather forcefully..

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> This specific behavior is really kind of the opposite of what AS

would do.

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> AS *tend* to be obsessive about things making sense and sticking to

the rules.

> A very very common AS trait is walking into a store to pick up

something and getting stuck analyzing it to the N'th degree for hours

before making a decision..  of gettign frustrated with the inability

to determing the best product to purchase and walking out without

anything.

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> I haven't yet run across an AS that was a compulsive buyer (as a

result of being AS anyway), and the prospect of an AS habitually lying

for any reason.. I don't think that's an AS trait at all.

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> Just my two cents..

> Usarian

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