alasdair
New member
Hello and good evening,
I am wondering, I have always had an obsession with washing machines right back to the early 60s when I apparently would spend hours sitting happily in front of my mother's Bendix Dialomatic front loader watching the washing going round and round! I remember the huge disappointment when my family went to live in germany and the bendix was replaced with a hoover keymatic with no window, this was appeased somewhat by the fact that a friend of my parents had a hoover twintub and I was allowed to stand and watch it wash!
Through all the years that followed I remember being heavily involved with helping with the various machines owned by the family including bendix 7147 and various other front loaders, I reached the age where I could start to own my own machines and accumulated in my mid 20s a collection of hotpoint twintubs top loaders and various front loaders.
They did then and still do fascinate me! I have a home in the UK and another in spain, this is brilliant as I can now justify having more than one washing machine and now have in the UK an american Fridgidaire top loader and dryer, and in spain a new LG top loader! the Fridgidaire is easy I can put a pen in the lid switch and watch it wash, the LG a little more difficult as it requires a big magnet being held at the back of the control panel to operate with the lid open! I also have still for some reason a hotpoint twintub here in spain, I think this is somekind of security blanket to fall back on when feeling insecure1
I am a partnered Gay man, I also have aspergers syndrome!
What I was wondering is: How much of my interest is typical of gay men, for whatever reason, and how much is the typical behaviour of aspergers people being fascinated by spinning objects!
I can be very very stressed about any given subject and make myself totaly relaxed by spending time at my washing machine watching it work! Funnily enough I am told that when a baby if upset or discontent my mother could play Eartha Kitt music put me by the washer and I would be happy to settle and sleep!
Perhaps you will regard this as a strange letter, but just wondered what sort of proportion of washing machine collectors are Gay and if I was alone amongst us in having Aspergers.
I am wondering, I have always had an obsession with washing machines right back to the early 60s when I apparently would spend hours sitting happily in front of my mother's Bendix Dialomatic front loader watching the washing going round and round! I remember the huge disappointment when my family went to live in germany and the bendix was replaced with a hoover keymatic with no window, this was appeased somewhat by the fact that a friend of my parents had a hoover twintub and I was allowed to stand and watch it wash!
Through all the years that followed I remember being heavily involved with helping with the various machines owned by the family including bendix 7147 and various other front loaders, I reached the age where I could start to own my own machines and accumulated in my mid 20s a collection of hotpoint twintubs top loaders and various front loaders.
They did then and still do fascinate me! I have a home in the UK and another in spain, this is brilliant as I can now justify having more than one washing machine and now have in the UK an american Fridgidaire top loader and dryer, and in spain a new LG top loader! the Fridgidaire is easy I can put a pen in the lid switch and watch it wash, the LG a little more difficult as it requires a big magnet being held at the back of the control panel to operate with the lid open! I also have still for some reason a hotpoint twintub here in spain, I think this is somekind of security blanket to fall back on when feeling insecure1
I am a partnered Gay man, I also have aspergers syndrome!
What I was wondering is: How much of my interest is typical of gay men, for whatever reason, and how much is the typical behaviour of aspergers people being fascinated by spinning objects!
I can be very very stressed about any given subject and make myself totaly relaxed by spending time at my washing machine watching it work! Funnily enough I am told that when a baby if upset or discontent my mother could play Eartha Kitt music put me by the washer and I would be happy to settle and sleep!
Perhaps you will regard this as a strange letter, but just wondered what sort of proportion of washing machine collectors are Gay and if I was alone amongst us in having Aspergers.
