Nothing But "Boys/Men's Clothes For Us" 'Sameness'?

[mel_pa]

Have any of you been accused of
"having 'narrow interests' in clothes"
ie boy's/men's clothes-- no dresses, etc.
because that's "autistic behavior"?

Comments

[eljuno]

Yes.

[frankiejlh]

Gah, what a ridiculous conflation - boy's/men's clothes are so stylistically ...all the same or something; vaguely monochromatic, etc... in contrast to women's, how could they *not* be a "narrow interest"?

sorry you have to put up with all that crap.
-frankie

[melsmarsh]

No.

My male clothing is much more colourful and varied than the clothing my parents bought me when I lived with them.

My t-shirt collection, purchased by my family, is the most monochormatic thing. Nearly all are black and generally refer to some type of scientific phenomena. Of the female clothing I am getting rid of, most were solid colours and/or had a very similar pattern on it or were ugly handme downs. Almost all were the same style because that is all they had in my size.

My male stuff contains nearly every colour of the rainbow (except for brown.) I have pants in about a half dozen styles compared to only 2 types I had as a woman. I have more shirt styles in better colours. I have ties so bright that you have to wear shades to look at them. Anyone who thinks male clothing is monotonous has obviously never been shopping in the right stores.

[gidget_ca]

I tend to choose functional clothing generally (plain blank tops and jeans) but I do dress a bit more liberally from time to time...

This is post transition though, before I was as bland as I could get hehe -- just plain blank tops and jeans(!).

The funny thing is I worked really hard to be able to get away with plain blank tops and jeans _post_ transition...

Is fashion apathy an aspergers thing? dunno...

[x_shabutie_x]

My daughter (possibly son) has been convinced she should be male since she was 3 (5 years)and has refused to wear skirts/dresses since she was 2. I let her wear what she feels most comfortable in and she wears 'boys' clothes, underwear, shoes, everything. I'm the one who gets all the backlash from this; teachers, consultants, family, friends. I have been told I am 'prolonging a phase', that I am a poor role model because I don't wear skirts often, that I am encouraging it. I don't believe any of this. I don't think it's a phase or novelty after 5 years, I have a 5 year old who is as frilly pink and princessy as you can get and I don't encourage gender stereotyping. My child calls them boys clothes/toys/whatever, I tell her it shouldn't matter as long as she likes what she wears.

As for wearing 'male' clothes being an autistic trait I think that's like saying you have rabbit traits because you like carrots. People like to categorise, it makes them feel better. You wear what you like, that's your freedom of choice :)

[hellmutt]

Applause for you, my good being!

[mel_pa]

I meant wearing "one" (only dressing
'unfeminine') style as an "autistic trait".