Cutting hair and screwing it up, aspie thing?

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I cut my hair and got dents in it, lucky no complete bald spots, just some really short spots so I'm sure my hairdresser can just give me a 2 all over or something and it won't look bad.

But this has to be the 7th or 8th time in my life I've unsuccessfully cut my hair. The only difference from before is, as soon as I saw the thin patches, I stopped (luckily the patches are on the sides and back, not the top.) I've gone completely shaven (and looked horrible for a few weeks) on a couple of occasions. So is this common for Aspies?

For me, I think it's more of a too lazy and cheap to go the salon thing.

I do mess my hair up frequently when I do try and cut it. This is why I own a lot of hats.

I don't know if I have aspergers or if hair cutting is related but as a child my mom would cut my bangs. They were usually uneven when she did it and it drove me crazy. I hated seeing them uneven. Most children probably wouldn't care but I started the hair cutting at 3. It lasted until about the age of 14 maybe.

I just learned to leave it to my hair stylist lol.

I have never tried to cut my own hair. Although I wish I could, because I hate going to hair shops very much. I have had a lot of bad haircuts in my life for some reasons. I don't know if it was some kind of hairdresser bullying thing, my inability to communicate what I wanted or the fact that my head is covered with cow-licks and widows peak and I have very straight, fine hair making it challenging for hairdressers. Or all of the above. Or something else.

I cut my own hair once and I think it turned out ok. I don't know where my pictures are of me with that haircut but I guess it looked something like this but thicker. I chopped my hair off to shoulder length and with mirrors eventually got it mostly even. I made bangs too. My hair is thick and it kind of looked like I was wearing a wig. Now my hair is waist length and all one length (kind of, the ends are uneven, I hate getting it trimmed).

I let my hair grow for years out of sheer laziness - I can't be bothered to go to a salon or barber shop, and dislike cutting it myself. I always end up shaving my head with an electric razor, eventually. I somehow screw it up every time, too.

Since when does it precisely make it ''an Aspie thing'' for christ sake? I don't know about wherever you are but where I come from nobody cuts their own hair, most people go to the hairdressers to lessen the risk of cutting it wrong. Sometimes men just shave their hair off when they want to maintain a bald or almost bald head, but generally everybody I know has a hairdresser to come and do it. My NEUROTYPICAL friend started cutting her fringe the other day and realised it looks a bit funny so she has to now put it back in clips until it grows back to a normal shape again.

I have done all my own haircutting with clippers for about 20 years now. I absolutely hated going to a barber shop and having my head pushed and shoved around.
There was also the fear of being cut, having hair fall down your back and itch and people waiting having a good stare.

Sometimes I cut some hair myself, but for the whole thing I clearly don't do it myself !

^^ My Dad has me do his too so I must have mastered the art.

It can explain.

I cut my hair in a nervous breakdown about a month ago. Normally I wouldn't dare do anything to my hair alone but I was on a whole other level. It didn't turn out so bad considering I was trying to shave my head. I'm glad I stopped, I don't remember what distracted me long enough to come to my senses but I blame the cut on the antidepressant I was on.

I have cut my own hair for years. I don't like hairdressers touching me. I have given myself some pretty bad cuts, but I really don't care.
Lately my strategy is to get it professionally cut every two years or so (an expensive cut, so they get it right) then I let it grow and trim it when it starts to bug me.
I think it's a little uneven right now, but nothing severe.

Nah I don't think it's an Aspie thing. The lady at my salon has Asperger's and she's AMAZING at cutting and dyeing hair.

I'm awesome at cutting my own hair. Been doing it since early high school.

It's beside the point that I just shave it off.