Do you get along with "hippie" types??

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Most of my NT friends are hippie types

Real Hippies are open and accepting people without prejudice for the most part. Most modern "hippies" are just pop-sub-culture. It's "cool" to be a hippie, so people act and dress like it. One of my best and closest friends was a Dead-head Hippie just a year older than me. She passed away last year and it was very traumatic, but I have much of my success in coping with life owed to her and I will always carry her spirit of fun-loving free-loving acceptance.

Not really, no. I had some of those type acquaintences in college but I always felt like they looked down their nose at me because I didn't live they way they thought I should. And there in lies the issue. I didn't care that they wore recycled pants made from newspaper, flops made from tires and had a group of 8 people that they were "married" to. I was totally accepting of them. The problem was that they didn't accept anyone not like them. So no, I didn't get along with them at all, and they were probably the hardest group for me to even talk to really outside of a few people.

I gotta say I've never met that many "hippies" IRL, but I think Fillmore (the VW bus from the Cars movies) and I would get along pretty well, if the Cars characters actually existed.

That depends on if we are talking about actual hippie types or the ones that just look the part while behaving like hypocrites. If you mean the latter then no I don't......but otherwise I seem to get along with them just fine, though I've probably come in contact with more fakes.

lol at this thread.

Actually l really don't like hippie types. At least not younger hippies. They're a mix of yuppie and hippie and the way most are completely blind to their own yuppiness is beyond me.

l don't think the true hippie personality can exist in today's culture. l've known a few leftovers from the 60s and sometimes it's sad to watch them realize that things aren't ever going to be that way again. A lot of them are naive, but the older hippies had good intentions.

IA with you about the younger ones who refuse to see anything from anyone else's point of view. lt's not about that, they don't want to.

lt's a forced kind of liberalism, even though many are more libertarian in their views. They self-identify as "liberal" and constantly talk about it. They cannot stand it if they don't know what someone else's political persuasion is ime and they will incessantly badger.

Not to equate them with most liberals because they can be much more extreme but when any person completely defines themselves by their politics and especially when they have done so to an extent that they can't form an independent thought l do consider them extreme.

lt's really about being a "non conformist." l sense that forced non-conformity from people very easily. Hipsters too. lt''s a trait l don't like in anyone.

Sometimes they're drawn to me because l seem weird or different somehow but l have no problem with a few of my beliefs aligning with the mainstream. l back away from anyone who wants to challenge authority without having any idea why, it's like dealing with an adult child..

I should say that, at my previous job, five of my co-workers had been hippies in the 1960s. I got along with them like a house on fire. I honestly could relate to them better than with most people of my own generation. I could follow their various views on life and the world, and I felt really comfortable with it. Sure, all five were five completely different personality types, but they were all forged in the hippie age, and I always had a field day talking to them about the days when they'd participate in demonstrations, go to Deep Purple concerts, or embrace Eastern philosophies like Taoism and Buddhism (and in some case, actually travel to Tibet, Nepal, or India).

I consider my mother to be a neo-hippie, and I've also known a co-worker of my mother's age who was also very clearly a neo-hippie, and I got along with that co-worker famously as well.

You do realize that I was a hippie during my late teens, right?

meh im no hippy fan...they are too unrealistic in what they say.....and they often do very little.

Most every long-haired man I have ever met has been annoyingly full of himself.

DISCLAIMER: I have obviously not met them all! This is just my experience.

I have hippie aspects to my character, I guess you'd say I am alternative. I live in an extremely alternative town, I love living here. It's a town that believes in rescue people and rescue animals, the environment and it's pretty accepting. I can walk down the street and wear whatever I like and I'm not stared at. There is a very high SEN population because the town and the outskirts has a lot of long term residential homes for people with a veriety of disorders, syndromes and disabilities. There is a Steiner school on the outskirts and there are a number of more alternative education oppurtunities. There are a good number of animal rescues around including someone I know who runs a rat rescue a few minutes down the road from me. There are a lot of cycle routes which is great because I don't drive. Plus I love that I will be walking down the hill and there is regularly Yurts on the hill.
I guess what I am trying to say is that the 'live and let live' belief can have a lot of positives if you are someone that struggles to belong, I'm not a hippie, I am too cynical...I'm not a flower child, I'm a mildew child. However, I do love living in a very hippie area because people are far more accepting of me and I can be myself far more easily. The more alternative mindset means there tends to be a greater concern about others and the environment. that can only be a positive thing if like me you tend to be some what of an outcast.