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Hey recently-joined Melbournites
I'm moving back to Melbs in a few weeks, would be great to meet some more of you!

Feel free to participate in this meet-up thread which has gone a bit quiet recently: Melbourne, Australia: Monthly Meet-ups (18+)

Hi Jake and others
I'm having difficulty sending out personal messages to people in Melbourne through WP but I am able to hit the reply button if someone messages me first. Yes I would like to attend the Melbourne monthly meet-ups. I have just ripped up the psychologist's assessment report as it was very patronising and full of stereotypes about aspies eg "writing is a very difficult task for a person with an ASD" and that I am only suitable for "single focus one-dimensional tasks" etc. This is ridiculous, sure I have a different profile of strengths and weaknesses than many people but I am very capable. I don't need an overpaid twit in Kew to tell me whether I can write or not. I worked out that I was an aspie from my own research and I don't want to change, my mind is more my own. My partner is a maths-science geek and he likes someone who can relate to what he's into and who understands and accepts his natural shyness. The people who matter to us like us and depend on us the way that we are, and they don't want us to change.

I am helping to promote a petition in support of over 50 blind workers in Kensington Melbourne, Corparoo and NSW who are going to get sacked by Vision Australia. Many of these workers are unlikely to ever find alternative employment. This is the petition link. https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/ ... ers-jobs-2

signed

Sydney, outer west/southish.

Hello and nice to meet online

I'm here in Perth!

Hi from melbourne, (I'm having difficulty replying via the forum)

Hi from Auckland across the ditch!

ABs are beating the Lions so far in the current test series. Go the ABs!! !

However they can't rest on their laurels as the games have been very close so far. But we can't let those poms win Whole country would go into mourning for a month. Maybe two months. Like when Australia wins the Bledisloe cup...

I used to live in Sydney, and I have a bucket list desire to sail right around Australia in a cruise ship, stopping at every port. Hope I get to do it.

Hello easterner, how are you finding Tony Abbot/ the FIFA World Cup/ your life/ daylight saving/ etc.

Hi
Sorry to have such a narrow range of interests as to not follow sport, mainly because I've never been able to do sports. Tony Abbott is very harsh and anti-worker, I am on the Left politically. Daylight saving is over and it is very cold. Life is busy, I'm self employed and we all have the flu. How about you?

I have the flu too! Over the worst of it now.

'm going to ignore the symptoms and struggle back to work tomorrow

Hope everything went okay at work.
Yea, I'm with you on most of what you said. Just mentioned sport 'coz everyone at school's talking about it. Personally, I lean more towards Labor (or even Greens *gasp*). I'm in the West, so we've never had daylight saving. I've got a boring, run of the mill cold. Mode.

Anything good happening to you?

I read something interesting last night. As predicted by the ASD Clinic, I have this repetitive mundane streak - I make paper flowers and I was researching the origin of this tradition. I learned that women used to take make them for American war graves for Memorial Day (sometimes known as Decoration Day, their equivalent of Anzac Day). Then I came across the origin of Memorial Day. Although officially it is attributed to the white US military, dating back to 1868, the first Decoration Day was in fact held on 1st May 1865 in Charleston South Carolina, a massive march of 10,000 freed Black slaves and their supporters, after they buried dead soldiers who had fought for their freedom. I thought that was a good piece of the history of the equality struggle, but then this might just be one of my "special interests" that bores everybody.

another melbournian female