I'm wondering if anyone has seen the episode of What Not To Wear on TLC with Ed. It was the one where Ed had a 80's wardrobe and they had to try and get him with the current trends of clothing. I'm not sure when it'll be on again, but if you can try to catch it.
Ed is so completely Aspie. He was talking about how he likes to give names to colors, and the whole not changing his fashion sense since the 80's. The hosts also were really nice to him, even if they did seem to be making fun of his taste in clothes. Which honestly, I mean 80's fashion is pretty amusing in just a general sense. I think it's a really positive show about Aspies in general. It was fun, it wasn't all about "oh what a wierdo". The hosts seemed genuinely accepting of Ed.
I saw a show like that for one of those home-deco surprise shows, where there was an aspie woman or couple who the woman's special interest was legos. I forget if the husband and the kids were aspies or not, becos it was a long time ago that I saw this...
Actually, thinking more about it, the hosts on that show were not so nice to her. They slightly tortured her about the lego obsession, and about the way she had to have her stuff just so. "As you do." :wink:
If I can find the link I will post it.
Yeah, well that's why I posted it. I was really surprised to see the people on TLC, not huraunging someone over not being a clone.
Almost all my life I have been in rebellion against society - which I consider culturally retarded and thus not qualified to tell me how to dress - in how I dress. I make some of my own clothes whenever clothing stores and costume shops do not have what I like. I especially esteem Nineteenth Century clothes I see on the stage when I go to the opera and some of what I wear copies what some of the characters in an opera wear. Because at times I am a nudist, but no exhabitionist (exhibitionists desire a reaction of shock from those they "flash" and the idea of someone reacting with shock to something as normal as nudity offends me) my cousin gave me a button that says, "If you can't dress weird why dress at all."
Fashion tells us what to wear, how to speak, what kind of music we are required to listen to, what to think, in short, how to live. I would not mind this if the demand to conform were not a campaign to force junk culture down our throats.
:grin: Yes, that is why I wear my 'TREEHUGGER' shirt, as well as costume pieces like my african print dress, fake chainmail shirt, and 'ent' shirt (green, torn, w/ plastic leaves stuck to it). Well, that and because I like them.
I also avoid pink like the plague and imediately don't like girls who wear pink just because they're wearing pink.
I like that quote from Oscar Wilde,
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable we must alter it every six months
I wear wha's comfortable for me, and the hell with everybody else.
I purchase clothes largely based on whether I can see a historical figure wearing it. I bought several copies of the same shirt earlier this week simply because it looked like something Tojo would wear.
