It’s not the center of his persona, but long ago Assange lived on a small Aussie island with a weird name and his family was a member of cult, The Family, headed by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, to whom some members gave their children..
The Family repeatedly dyed their hair silver and got into drugs..it gets pretty twisted and I think you can find the details via Google.
Assange moved around A LOT in his youth and got into computers.
Thanks. Sounds as though his parents were in it maybe... anyway, he seems not to be in it any more, unless he’s still dying his hair silver. I thought it was just prematurely white.