I don't think I am the only Aspie here who likes being naked.

[MildredHubble]

It was an era. I used to have to help my sister get dressed because her jeans were so tight that she couldn't do them up by herself. I asked her how she went to the toilet and she said she couldn't, she had to wait til she got home.

Clothes so tight they looked like they were painted on and lots of hair.

Like Kate Bush? I remember when all women seemed to wear those, I guess similar to cowboy boots but a bit looser and Levis and big billowy hair. I'm sure it will come into fashion again at some point. But I do see pictures of Kate Bush and I feel nostalgic. All the kids at the time had roller skates, blue with a rainbow detail on them or those weird ones you could adjust and fix over your shoes. I always wanted some but never got a pair :-( Oh and Raleigh Chopper bikes! Oh how I miss those times!

 

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When I was 13 or 14 I was in love with Kate Bush.

But take a look at all the other musicians from those times, and the way the clothes fit. In a way it was a healthy fashion because people would make their bodies conform to those shapes. Too fat or too skinny didn't look right.

Being fashionable also meant eating properly and keeping fit.

 

[Au Naturel]

I like to walk around barefoot, too. I don't do it too often though because everyone complains about me doing it, and basically acts like I'm going to step on something and then somehow drop dead. lmao

I walk around barefoot whenever it is warm enough. I'll walk down a sidewalk in the sun at 100F. Asphalt is another story.

 

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I walk around barefoot whenever it is warm enough. I'll walk down a sidewalk in the sun at 100F. Asphalt is another story.

Because I do it all the time my feet are fairly tough, sticks, stones and broken glass don't bother me. When I first came down from Darwin I got strange looks and comments from people because I was used to a much hotter climate and the bitumen didn't bother me either. 3 years later and I'm like you, the bitumen is too hot for me now.

 

[Au Naturel]

Because I do it all the time my feet are fairly tough, sticks, stones and broken glass don't bother me. When I first came down from Darwin I got strange looks and comments from people because I was used to a much hotter climate and the bitumen didn't bother me either. 3 years later and I'm like you, the bitumen is too hot for me now.

Ach! Broken glass is not something even a thick callous can always stop. It is one of the sharpest things in the world. I was running the SF Bay to Breakers once (back when I had knees that could run a distance), and another one of the nude runners was doing it barefoot. Before the race, he'd bragged about never wearing shoes and how tough his feet were. Stepped on a piece of glass. Ended up at an aid station on a gurney with his foot taped up, waiting to be hauled off to the ER to get his foot stitched up.

I might walk carefully down a street barefoot, but I'd never run. It's one thing to walk and watch what you are stepping on and quite different to slam your foot down on something nasty. I imagine a nail would be as problematic.

The SoCal wilderness is too rough for me to barefoot.

OTOH when I was a little kid doing my secret nature-boy routine, I'd come home with my feet poked full of holes, battered, and scraped from twigs and sharp rocks and burrs and such. Didn't stop me. I went the whole summer without shoes. Occupational hazard of wandering the north woods barefoot and bare. But at least there was no broken glass or nails.

 

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It's one thing to walk and watch what you are stepping on and quite different to slam your foot down on something nasty. I imagine a nail would be as problematic.

Amen to that. Even with shoes people that don't watch where they put their feet end up hurt.

I used to chase wallabies through the tropical forests, pandanus thorns are the worst, so fine you can hardly see them but the poison hurts. Stepping in to soft sand was a new lesson for me too, the soles of my feet might be tough but the tops of them aren't.

 

[Slime_Punk]

I'm the opposite; I love wearing (especially tight) clothes and lots of layers if I can. I also wear shoes almost constantly, even around the house. I don't know anybody who's like me in that way at all.

 

[Progster]

I really feel the cold and I need to wear clothes to stay warm. I would go naked around the house all the time if it weren't for the cold winters. I prefer loose, baggy clothing.

 

[Jeff T]

I'm fairly comfortable with nudity. In the summertime I'm nude in the house- which saves money because it's comfortable at 85f.
Boy Scout summer camp usually included skinnydipping until the scoutmaster found out.
At 20, a gal directed me to a beach (oddly behind a wood fence, I thought at the time). It wasn't until I'd hoofed it down to the sea's edge that I noticed that those people a fair bit away weren't wearing clothes. Avila Beach. It was kind of creepy with the crowd up on the bluff with their telephoto lenses.
About a year ago I almost joined a nudist group, but I backed out because it wasn't naturist, which is what I'd prefer.
Another group traveled to hot spring resorts, which was enjoyable.
Anyway, all of my animals are nudists!

 

[Au Naturel]

I'm the opposite; I love wearing (especially tight) clothes and lots of layers if I can. I also wear shoes almost constantly, even around the house. I don't know anybody who's like me in that way at all.

Everyone is different. Isn't that wonderful?

 

[Au Naturel]

I'm fairly comfortable with nudity. In the summertime I'm nude in the house- which saves money because it's comfortable at 85f.
Boy Scout summer camp usually included skinnydipping until the scoutmaster found out.
At 20, a gal directed me to a beach (oddly behind a wood fence, I thought at the time). It wasn't until I'd hoofed it down to the sea's edge that I noticed that those people a fair bit away weren't wearing clothes. Avila Beach. It was kind of creepy with the crowd up on the bluff with their telephoto lenses.
About a year ago I almost joined a nudist group, but I backed out because it wasn't naturist, which is what I'd prefer.
Another group traveled to hot spring resorts, which was enjoyable.
Anyway, all of my animals are nudists!

I've been to Avila a couple of times. You know what? I don't give a care about looky-loos or photographers. If I spend my life worrying about what goes on inside the minds of people I'll never know, I'll never do anything fun.

I don't like labels like "nudism" and "naturism." I'm too free-range to really fit either of them and only use them when I have to. I'd describe myself as a nudie.

I like being naked in nature. Don't need to be part of a group for that. I'm not a social person. If there are others present, I don't care if they have clothes on or not, as long as they don't mind my nudity. And there is a militant part of me that gets me involved in demonstrations like the World Naked Bike Ride or the San Francisco Bay to Breakers.

Did you go to Deep Creek Hot Springs?

 

[Jeff T]

Did you go to Deep Creek Hot Springs?

I haven't been there, it is way south of where I live.
The hot springs I visited with the group were outside of Sierraville, Bridgeport, and Mammoth Lakes.
The Sierraville location was nice as they had both the hot and COLD pools in the same small building.
Long ago I would visit Hot Creek near 395 below Mammoth Lakes- various eddies and currents had considerable temp variation. One had to be a bit careful not to get scalded. Probably why it is out of bounds today. My labrador wouldn't enter the water which was entirely out character of him. I guess he thought it was a bath? A day earlier he was fetching sticks and drinking from frigid alkaline Mono Lake.....

 

[MyLifeAsAnAspie]

I think some would be nudist aspies may be more reluctant to be open about that desire than NTs. It would just give people more reason to think we're weird. I don't see any reason why we would be more or less inclined to be nudist otherwise though.

 

[UberScout]

...Ah... oh...

"Hey, it's natural. You're a human being. A mammal. Just like me! Isn't that right, guys?"

 

[Au Naturel]

I haven't been there, it is way south of where I live.
The hot springs I visited with the group were outside of Sierraville, Bridgeport, and Mammoth Lakes.
The Sierraville location was nice as they had both the hot and COLD pools in the same small building.
Long ago I would visit Hot Creek near 395 below Mammoth Lakes- various eddies and currents had considerable temp variation. One had to be a bit careful not to get scalded. Probably why it is out of bounds today. My labrador wouldn't enter the water which was entirely out character of him. I guess he thought it was a bath? A day earlier he was fetching sticks and drinking from frigid alkaline Mono Lake.....

There's a string of hot springs all the way up Hwy 395. Been to the ones around Bridgeport and Mammoth. By the time I got up to that area, Hot Creek had been closed. There are some really nice ones in Saline Valley, but it is a long drive down a rough dirt road to get there.

Maybe the water smelled like sulphur.

 

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There's a string of hot springs all the way up Hwy 395.

We have a chain of hot springs through the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, but they're radioactive. Signs tell you not to remain in the area too long but they don't tell you how long that is.

 

[Suzanne]

Hate it with a passion and therefore, hate showers and as soon as I have finished, wow, have a sense of: ah, that is better, when I put on my clothes.

Guess it is mostly due to hating my body; but I feel not just naked, but deeply exposed and feel embarrassed for the room having to look at me, which is weird, I know.

 

[Stellarpulse]

I would like to do it but I have body image issues. Not the biggest downstairs and have been made to feel less than adequate when trying to find dates or just hooking up. I'm not even really small but sadly the world has made me to feel shamed and less than complete because of it. I would be afraid I'd get laughed at going to a nude resort. I've been to one but kept my underwear on but would have liked to be able to be naked without stressing out so much. I know it's stupid to be upset over something like this but just have run into some very mean people in the past who have made it an issue sadly. Can't help with what I am born with just wish people weren't petty and so fast to tear others down.

 

[Au Naturel]

I would like to do it but I have body image issues. Not the biggest downstairs and have been made to feel less than adequate when trying to find dates or just hooking up. I'm not even really small but sadly the world has made me to feel shamed and less than complete because of it. I would be afraid I'd get laughed at going to a nude resort. I've been to one but kept my underwear on but would have liked to be able to be naked without stressing out so much. I know it's stupid to be upset over something like this but just have run into some very mean people in the past who have made it an issue sadly. Can't help with what I am born with just wish people weren't petty and so fast to tear others down.

Nobody at a nudist resort gives a care about your size. You shouldn't either. Don't let other people control you - and that's what that is all about. Giving themselves jollies by seeking out and poking at insecurities.

 

[Stellarpulse]

Nobody at a nudist resort gives a care about your size. You shouldn't either. Don't let other people control you - and that's what that is all about. Giving themselves jollies by seeking out and poking at insecurities.

I know that's how I should act but have been beat down about my size to the point I don't trust being in a situation that might end up crushing me even more. I try to not allow others to control how I act and what I do but just have had many unpleasant and soul destroying comments lobbied my way. It's no wonder why I don't trust many people as there are just too many vain and insensitive people out there. I don't think anybody can fully understand how crushing it can be till they have been in the same situation sadly. I don't tend to let others ruin things for me but this is one area I've had issues with since a young lad.