Counter-cultures and aspergers

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All my life I have seen the counter culture and aspergers as quite interlinked, Now Im not sure of this, but all the aspies I seem to meet often have quite counter-cultural views, etc.

Could you be considered a "Hippie" type person?

Yes, but I don't fit in any particular counter culture.

the aspies i've seen tend towards the extremes of right and left.

Yeah, I'm green anarchist & permaculture obsessed. Aspergers is excellent for plant nomenclature

I'd like to ask for a clarification of 'countercultural-alternitive views, and ideas'.

I guess so -
I have long hair, I like singing Hindi bhajans and kirtans, I listen to Jefferson Airplane (and to loads of other stuff), I support animal rights, I go to Rainbow Gatherings, I drink herbal teas and eat granola, I'm a world federalist (sort of).
And, first and foremost... I support the autistic rights movement!

I think if somebody can put us in any culture, we will always have fundamental objections. It is not a rule, just a simple extension of what Aspies are

I resist the trite categorizations foisted upon us by popular culture. But I don't reject anything without a reason. So it's complicated.

Well, I could say I'm a Rivetgoth, but I also know that in US being a Goth means something else than in EU.
I listen to gothic and industrial music and NDH too, I go to fests and concerts, but I'm not dark, crying and overemotional.

I see this world as completely insane. I think there is considerable truth to various idea's which most people - unthinkingly - dismiss as 'conspiracy theories', etc. So, I suppose the answer is yes.

"It's complicated."

I don't fit into mainstream, I never did. But then again I never fit into any group, either.
I grew up in a familiy that's extremely interested in politics, environment, social questions, science, and do on. But these were always viewed very critically, examining pro and contra of every aspect.
As a result I very often feel like the personified middle. That doesn't mean that I can't settle my mind on anything when considering a question. It simply means that I know from the beginning that I'll head for the compromise, which in my experience anyway is the only thing that works out. I might add that for me I appear to have made the middle a new extreme.

If I every fit into a group, I somehow find myself at the rim of it.

Agrarian, and even though I actually know very little about that.

As far as counter-cultural views, my views probably line up with a lot. As far as the culture of counter-culture, it's no better a fit than any other social group.

if i had been born a decade earlier, i'd have ended up on haight-ashbury.

Yes I get on a lot better with counter-culture people than with the mainstream. But I chose not to raise a child in a counter-culture neighbourhood because I felt that the mainstream would provide better support in some ways......nonetheless I didn't immerse myself or my family in the mainstream - it was more a mixture of mainstream and other value systems. Also not many of my girlfriends have been deepy counter-cultural.....the "straightness" of the more mainstream ones has always been a source of annoyance, but the counter-culture traits in the others could sometimes be a problem too. Depends what counter-culture it is......I find the hippy/anarchist/lefty thing quite attractive in many ways, but I've never found any such group that fits my own outlook perfectly.

I find this interesting because the consensus perception of a hippy is so at odds with generally recognised Aspergian traits - flexible boundaries, no fixed routine, free love etc. I feel like a hippy, look like a hippy, eat granola (!), listen to hippy music, dream of wandering round the world with just a tent, but get too stressed to be a hippy and am, frankly, deeply afraid of hippy toilets. Definitely and always feel more at home with subcultures of most kinds than within mainstream culture but I don't know if that's related to being neurologically different or because, due to upbringing, I'm more comfortable in situations where I'm a foreigner.