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

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Do you?

All of my life, it's been this way.

And I can sense it as soon as I walk into any room, before I even see the crazy person, I can just sense the crazy.

Or if I see a person that doesn't even appear to be crazy, I pick up on it, and avoid eye contact at all costs.

And what do you know, they come to talk to me.

Every time, without fail, even when they never speak to anyone else.

I don't get involved with this people (in fact I'm especially good at weeding them out) but it never fails that I draw them out of the woodwork wherever I go.

Why do they like us so much?

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Yes.

I attract dingbats of all shapes and sizes.

It's because I'm non-judgmental and "crazy" doesn't scare/intimidate me.

I get what you mean but I don't think it's right to just label people like that. People aren't always what they appear to be. I think you should give them a chance to get to know you and you to get to know them besides, people who seem different are much more interesting than the average.

I don't seem to attract anybody and I do know two hippie one actually runs my aspie group.

*shrug*

Typically, I just have no external reaction to people, and that includes weirdos.

Also, most of the things that bug "normal" people, I honestly couldn't care less about unless it affects me directly. So, you smoke pot everyday and wear women's underwear when you're having sex, despite the fact you're a guy? Whatever. It's cool.

I need at least a year to gather enough information in order to form an opinion on someone. My "intuition" about other people is non-existent, so I never understood how someone could form a definite opinion on another person within five minutes of knowing them.

I went to Gas Town Vancouver one Saturday with a group of people one June. I kept on attracting male hippies left, right and centre. I was wearing an England soccer shirt. Who did they think I was? Their personal queen?

I think there are two types of crazy.

"Just Right" and "Too Much"

Too much would be interacting with people who could have issues similar to your family members. If such interactions have always been negative for you, I could see how it would be distressing, and you'd want to be away from it as much as possible.

Just right would be meeting people who may have "issues" but they seem to be able to go about life in a way that doesn't impact other people in the same way. They might just be quirky/odd rather than potentially dangerous/odd.

My handful of friends that I feel the most connected to, are just crazy enough to be interesting, and not scary.

i certainly hope i do… being one myself.

Actually, I really don't know their different until they try to talk to me. In this time frame I am nervous and afraid because this new, awkward person is in front of me, and my first instinct, like with everyone else who wants to randomly talk to me, is run as fast as I can in the opposite direction. I never make eye contact, people just seem to think I am a good person to talk to. I would rather have them stay away while I am eating my lunch alone though...

Later on we become buddies and start talking every time we see each other, just about all the time it is very one-sided conversations where I am talking about something I am obsessed with that particular day, be it medicine, or mammals.

I think they like me because I myself am crazy....

I've finally found some descent friends, but before, I used to attract stupid people who aren't on the spectrum but can't seem to keep friends properly. In school I attracted a couple of girls who got in a mood with me quick over silly things, and I know this is typical in teenage girls, but these girls were really really stupid, and they acted like 8-year-olds. One of these girls was supposed to be my friend, but then decided I was weird, so when she was sitting next to me in class one afternoon, she kept talking to herself saying, ''oh everybody's going to think I'm weird because I'm sitting next to you'' - even though nobody else in the class were even bothered about what we were doing. Little did she realise that all the boys were actually laughing at her but not me (just found that out on Facebook a few months ago ). Serves her right too.

And then I met a group of friends in college, and they seemed nice, but turned out quite weird when I got to know them. One of them had learning difficulties, and she was really full-of-it and mouthy and made friends really quickly but acting all confident and sweet - but then started frightening them off by lashing out at them at every little thing and trying to overtake their lives. She frightened a lot of friends off - including me. She did have a bad upbringing and so is very mixed up emotionally. Although I feel quite sorry for her in a way, I would still rather steer clear of her. She did end up bullying me, then a few weeks later she phoned up (without apoligizing or anything) expecting me to be her friend like nothing happened. I was like, no thank you! I found her too unpredictable.