An autistic woman’s weekly shop has ended in disaster after she was forced to interact with a person at the self-checkout, according to sources.
Sabeen Bhatt, 42, was innocently scanning her groceries when the self-checkout prompted her for ID. Before she could cancel – or run away – a shop assistant appeared to help her.
Bhatt said: “I hadn’t prepared to do any social interaction that day so I was completely thrown off. I just started to babble ‘Hi, hello, how are you, can you please approve this…’ and I didn’t even get to finish being polite before they walked away. And now they probably think I’m the kind of human scum who mistreats retail workers.”
“When they glanced at me to check my age, they noted my resting bitch face and my ‘going to the shops’ outfit, which no one is supposed to see me in,” Bhatt continued. “They saw the paracetamol, maxi pads and two bags of crispy M&Ms I was buying. They perceived me, and possibly even had a thought about me. I can’t bear it.”
“Maybe I don’t ever need to set foot in a supermarket again. Maybe I could just collect up the crumbs at the back of my kitchen cupboards and eat those instead. Yeah. No more scary shopping for Sabheen.”
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