Being an Aspie, I don't get a lot of things
Created | Updated Feb 28, 2007
right off the bat anyway.
It has taken me decades to separate useful fashion from bull pucks.
I also suffer from research. I know the antecedents of much of the popular fluff, so I can't really just sit down and enjoy it as new.
I also have this odd habit of studying the history of advertising. Some of the iconic images stay with me constantly. So new ads that are naff make me sick because the ad makers don't know anything about the history of their crap or David Olgilvie.