Have we been typecast?

Eh?

TheCatWoman said:

Eh?

Lyrics from the song "I Don't Wanna Be Nice" by John Cooper Clarke (British performance poet and musician):

https://genius.com/John-cooper-clarke-i-dont-want-to-be-nice-lyrics

Here he comes now the fast fingers, the expert eyes
And the same old how do you do
Disgust is just his dumb disguise
He wants a word with you
His problems are the end his mouth needs exercise
The last thing I need is another friend I don't want to be nice

I don't want to be nice I think it's clever to swear
Better seek some sound advice better look elsewhere
Your face is an obvious case you shouldn't put it about
This is neither the time nor place to sort these matters out
What you see is what you get you only live twice
A friend in need is a friend in debt I don't want to be nice

We never met before I'm very happy to say
Far from perfect strangers I'd like to keep it that way
I'm not your psychoanalyst I'd rather talk to mice
You're so easy to resist I don't want to be nice

Eh? I still don't understand what this thread is about, who's being typecast, where and by whom?

Eh? I still don't understand what this thread is about, who's being typecast, where and by whom?

I think lots of people NT's and ND's dye their hair and have a variety of piercings and tattoo's. Maybe because I don't do all the social media stuff I'm less exposed to stereotypes? Or maybe I just hung about with non mainstream people for so many years I just don't notice as I just accept the person I see in front of me and only care about whether they're a good person or not, I don't really care about the colour of thier skin, their tatts, piercings or hair colours

Desmond1979 said:

I, for one, don't feel the need to dye my hair

This struck a chord with me because I do feel the need to dye my hair, dark brown because it's my natural colour,  I look really awful with grey hair showing through and unfortunately my first grey started showing  when I was only 21.

I'm sensible, I dye my hair dark brown every 2 to 3 months.  At the pop in autism centre I used to visit there was a nice lad who used to have a different coloured hair every week. One week bright orange, the next deep purple, metallic green after that.

Autists.

The Media love to focus on the NGO-approved view of us. They don't seem to grasp that 'Spectrum' means different outcomes; for the same condition.

I, for one, don't feel the need to dye my hair, or wear a nosering. These stereotypes are readily exploited online.

One Swallow doesn't make a Summer.