Are you young and hip?

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old and shoulder.

I never was hip. I was the "strange" one that didn't like to party all the time and enjoyed reading and doing my own thing. I wish I could say I was still liked but I was a loner.

hi i am young and hip i am 13 and known by everyone in my school but i try to make it better so when my steps sisters who have autism come they have a great 3 years because i am going into high school and doing sports

Two years ago, I was at a PRAO (Practical work thingy) for a week at the student core at an university in Stockholm my sister worked at. During one of the days, another class of my age visited the university to check it out. They thought it would be a good idea for me to go check it out. I didn't really like them, they were really rude, so I seated myself at the back of the class room we were in.

At the end of the demonstration, it turned out they thought I was one of the students at the university.

I'm 18 and NOT HIP!

At my high school/secondary school alma mater,
approximately 2/3 of the student body were either
hippies or hipsters. I was being hip by keeping
to myself most of the time. Hip enough for you?

However, the college/university I now go to
is full of unhip people. For example, take my
tai chi class. Most hipsters probably would not
do a Physical Education class. There are 40 people
in my tai chi class and 1/3 of them are hipsters.

Portland is considered "Hipster City" because
new "transfers" are either from Seattle or from
somewhere on the East Coast.

Ugh, I really loathe hipsters. Pretentious arty-farty, pseudo-intellectual bore bags. Though they're great to mock from a distance.

i am young but not hip.

Never been hip, never will be. Well, I might be, when I strike my fortune( duh) but otherwise never have been. I have friends, and don't really chat with 'em much cause the opportunity doesn't allow itself much, and I'm really busy these days.

Yeah, the drinkin' thing, I know that: good luck going on my Facebook account, and finding almost any of my friends with pictures WITHOUT beers in their hands.

Cant u tell by my pic? LOL!

I have a 10 gallon container full of legos, I sometimes play with my 12 year old daughter, were both autistic.

Besides,
I am cool when the fan is on and in the window and it is ~50F outside...Am I hip, no, but I have two of them and the left one hurts on occasion from artiritis from an old sports injury...

Seems like times have changed - the bunch of hippies who rescued my sanity for me (back in the late 1970s in the UK) had a healthy contempt for being hip or cool, the whole competitive showing-off thing just wasn't what they were about. By and large they were quite genuinely trying to live as close to the "alternativist" ideal as possible.....by that time punk rock and the New Wave was starting, and rather than reject it, they actively welcomed it, which initially worried me because I feared it would dilute the standards, but to my surprise it worked.

Young (age 18 ), not "hip". Or "cool".
Might have been if there were more goths at my school.... but of course not, goth wasn't "cool". Not to mention it was a hick/hill town.

"I'm so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." - Zaphod Beeblebrox

I'm not sure how to define "hip" - it seems that many define it at sharing in the most recent aspects of popular culture - so "hipness" is in direct correlation to popularity.

But it seems to me that historically the "hippest" people are the ones who were among the first to identify themselves with emerging cultural aspects. So by that definition "hipness" would be in inverse proportion to popularity.

I suppose I'm old (at 50), but I tend to have uncommon tastes - especially in music. I'm aware of popular culture, but tend to be ahead of the curve, by focusing my interests on artists who are on their way up. Once something becomes "popular" I tend to lose interest.

If "hip" follows popularity - then I've never been/never will be hip.

If "hip" leads popularity - then maybe I've always been extremely hip.

Maybe I'm so hip that I just don't care.

Let's see here...
* 27 years old. Prime of life, although a few years past the current definition of "young", which I understand to end at age 25. Check.
* No friends. Not one. I cannot talk about "my friends". None there. I live with my son's mother, who is intermittently a friend and a foe, but we would have nothing to do with each other if we had not had a child together. Check.
* Awkward styles and clothing choices. Others tell me that the clothes I wear don't match, are too small, etc. Check.
* Un-current tastes in music/art/culture. Most of the stuff I like hails from 30+ years ago. Check.
* Uncommon occupations and interests for gender stereotype. I am male. I am a teacher. I love to cook. I love to garden. I love to clean the house. Check.

Diagnosis: Almost Young and definitely Not Hip.

I just don't think the word "hip" is particularly modern anymore. Or "cool" or "in". Not modern, no.

I'd seriously doubt anyone who's claim they're "hip" to mean they're following the trend. Because "hip" is something they said in the 90s maybe.

Anyway, I would be pretty typical fro my age if I hadn't the ASD symptoms.

I like going out with friends, partying, drinking some, talking about stuff, going shopping... I really do these things as often as I can!

But my ASD/ADHD just make all that quite problematic. I can't interact with people normally, I stick out, I have troubling talking/speaking, I have attention issues+hyperactivity like all the time and then there's the sensory issues and the fact that I can't just change what I planned.

Basically, others go out a lot more than me because I can't do all that as regularly because of my disability.