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

[hellmutt]

Er, I didn't buy ANY of my own clothes as a child or teen. I had that little interest (and, admittedly, didn't understand how going out, choosing and purchasing things worked). And I never wanted or asked for new stuff. I would've been happy to keep wearing the same things until they wore out.

Now I'm a wage-earning twentysomething, I've started preferring to buy my own things. But I'm still hopelessly stuck on the "keep it until it wears out/no longer fits" angle. ("I wouldn't have bought it if I didn't want to keep it! Sheesh!") Persuading people not to buy me things, that's the tricky bit.

[_trivium]

No, in fact I was unaware that people made any connection whatsoever between any particular style of clothing and autism until you had mentioned it. Then again, I've only ever met two other people with anything on the autistic spectrum (both Asperger's, in case anyone cares), both male and fairly normal-looking in terms of fashion sense.

[mel_pa]

Were you (or anyone else here) asked
if you would wear "other things" (girl's/women's
clothes) to indirectly tell you that they don't want you to
wear boy's/men's clothes?

[_trivium]

No, I've actually never gotten that. My parents let me wear whatever I wanted within reason (which basically just meant "nothing too revelaing," which wasn't an issue anyway), and I've never had any friends who tried to give me a "make-over" or anything of the sort.