Do you attract hippies, weirdos, and otherwise crazy people?

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I've got a friend who calls herself a violent hippie. Other than that I can't say. Depends on how you view crazy, I guess. I'm willing to give anyone a chance.

I attracted the ultimate crazy just over a year ago. I found her really interesting - she was foreign, had lived in loads of places and seemed very different from usual. Anyway, I was really enjoying her company (even if she was a little intense and exhausting at times), but her son was becoming violent towards my daughter. He was just 5yrs and my daughter was 4yrs, but as time was going on, his outbursts were getting worse and I feared for my daughter's safety. He slapped her face continually during a 20min car journey and I was in the front, helpless to stop him, while his Mum continued driving. My husband and parents had witnessed a couple of incidents, which she and her husband had done nothing about, and advised me not to see her again, which was what I decided for myself too, after the car journey. So, I told her this and she went completely berzerk. She said I was a liar and that I was raising my daugher to be the same. She then started to send hateful e-mails to me. Strangely, while we were friends, she only had positive things to say about my lifestyle (which is really quite ordinary), but her e-mails were negative about everything we had done together as apparent friends. She even made ridiculous assumptions about me - my clean and tidy house makes me a clean freak, when it was only that way because I had visitors (she and her sons). The e-mails went on for months, which really worried me. She even tried to involve the teacher at the drama class our kids had gone too. She gave her a letter which she wanted to be handed to the other parents, all about me. Needless to say, the teacher took my side. I hope I've learned through this experience.

The above case sounds like possibly borderline.

Definitively. I attract all sorts of crazy. The discussions are never dull, the food is always great, and they're the best friends I've ever had, I'll be sad to see them all go.

I do not like anybody but weird people seem to be attracted to me. I have always attracted people but never pursued anyone as a friend.

Back when I was in college, I used to hate.. Hate... HATE "cult recruiting season". Anybody who's ever gone to a major university knows what I'm talking about... when the cultists come out of the woodwork, start hitting on random strangers to strike up conversations about their clothes (or whatever), and inevitably lead into something like "Can I tell you about my church?".

After a while, though, I noticed that I freaked them out as badly as they freaked me out. Like one year, in band camp (no, just kidding... it was my sophomore or junior year in college), one guy came up to me, noticed I was wearing a "No Fear" t-shirt, tried to strike up a conversation about it, and got totally weirded out when I looked at him blankly & told him I bought it because it was gray and had printing of appropriate scale in the right locations on the front and back (on the front, in the "pocket position", and across the back). His eyes opened wide in total fear when I told him I also bought identical shirts in white and black, and he quickly excused himself & literally ran away. It was an incredibly empowering moment, because from that point forward I started to intentionally screw with the cult people and played with them cat-vs-mouse style whenever they approached. Literally, cat-vs-mouse

My ultimate comeback to them: I asked them whether Jesus had any cats, like maybe a special beloved tabby or calico. The look on the face of the last girl I told that to my senior year was priceless. When she got offended and started stammering something, I pointed out that Mohamed loved HIS cats, that there's an entire chapter dedicated to them in the Koran, and began speculating about the existence of a forgotten Coptic scroll somewhere in Egypt or Syria that talks about Jesus sadly holding & stroking his purring kitty "David" for the last time -- maybe giving him one last cheek rub -- before handing him over to his mother (or Peter) and getting taken away by the Romans to be crucified.

I AM a hippie weirdo and I am absolutely crazy and I've gathered friends who are the same. If that helps.

I tend to attract black sheep types, the bad ones and the good ones........for instance out of all my cousins on my dads side I get along best with the one who recently got out of jail. Even my dad does not really like him because he has a problem with stealing, he's never stolen from me and so I explained to my dad based on that and the fact he was really the only one other then my immediate family who seemed to care the year we lived up there I can't bring myself to have a problem with him. He's a good person just way too impulsive.

Then of course I've had 'friends' with dark backgrounds use me and manipulate me and even try and set me up. Also, I'm so insane I once went camping with a group of homeless people and they aren't so bad. I swear they have a way with turning very little into a lot.

First of all hippies,eccentrics and weird people seem to be more open-minded than society's definition of normal.
Normal people are boring and uninteresting.

I attract them and they attract me. This thread is very close-minded and offensive.
Most aspies are considered strange and eccentric by normal people.
If you prejudge these people than you should prejudge yourself as well.

I am a strange,crazy person and a sort of hippie-punk. These are the only people that accept me and don't want me to change.
I often go look for them in tattoo shops,thrift shops and coffee shops.

The OP needs to be more open-minded before they offend more people.