escaping strings that would result in expression language

Unfortunately I have a form param that has a value of ${thing}. how would I escape this so it is not picked up as using the expression language for .a session value called thing?

Sadly, it’s not possible atm.
Feel free to contribute escaping support, eg $${ wouldn’t be interpreted.https://github.com/gatling/gatling/blob/master/gatling-core/src/main/scala/io/gatling/core/session/el/ElCompiler.scala