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Between my being ADD before ADHD was a thing and a military officer/live on base family. I missed it all. I never understood culture much less counter-culture. My older sister would take a train into Old Town Chicago art and head shops and apparently understood the culture. She took my brother once that I remember so he got an introduction but I was too young. To me bell bottoms were always white and worn by enlisted sailors to work. When the hippies found them at military surplus stores and tie-dyed them I didnt even see the connection. I did have the bleach wash jeans with holes in sexy locations but that was the result of 4 years of college chemistry labs. And the holes are only sexy on girls. I think I saw the braless gauze-clad hippies with holey jeans in Look Magazine before it failed away with the rest. I was thirty before there was a glimmer of understanding off ADD medication. After that I began to realize that a world existed beyond surburbia. But I was married with kids so no Burningman, Austin City Lights or anything on or Off-Broadway. At least I wasn't a Rocky Horror virgin but you don't get the stage show with the VHS.