Suggestion and Poll - Meeting Aspies in your Local Area

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07 May 2008, 5:41 am

I've tried joining local aspie groups. The problem with those (at least in usa, not sure about other countries) is that all the members are parents of children who have anything on the Autistic spectrum. The kids get all the attention, and if you are much older than 12-15, you get none. In my case, I've seen several Drs./Physcs in the past, and they all misdiagnosed me, so I thought I was doing something wrong when really it was AS affecting my ability to make friends and fit in socially. I only knew I had AS and what it was about 6-9 months ago when my mom started to date a master's degree therapist with 2 Autistic children of his own. Since then I've seen my family Dr., 2 assistant Drs. to the Pysch and the Psych himself. They all agree I have AS. I'd like to see how many others are interested in meeting Aspies in their local area besides me, not parents of small children with Autism/Asperger's.

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07 May 2008, 5:57 am

Perhaps a group specifically for adaults w/ Autism Spectrum could branch off from the established ones. Tho you could probably help some of those kids even when you are not getting much help, maybe.

P.S. Nice avatar.

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07 May 2008, 6:02 am

We had a group here in Vegas, but it was still kinda stressful for me. It was for young adults, but most of them still brought parents.

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07 May 2008, 6:39 am

i am definitely looking for one of these

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07 May 2008, 9:28 am

Moo Cow, you definately have one of the best avatars I've ever seen. Made my morning.

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07 May 2008, 10:28 am

I'm not sure that forum software is the right software to use for fulfilling the need for meeting people in your local area. I know that there is software that would fulfill this need, while being well organized and easy to use, but off the top of my head I don't know what the name is.

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07 May 2008, 2:34 pm

You might want to try these people....
I myself do not know much about them.

http://aspergers.meetup.com/

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07 May 2008, 3:11 pm

I voted no in this poll, because I know some already.

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08 May 2008, 2:23 am

richie wrote:

You might want to try these people....
I myself do not know much about them.

http://aspergers.meetup.com/

Yeah, those are the ones I tried but never again. You can tell that parents of small children run them by just reading these descriptions.

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The San Antonio Asperger's Syndrome Meetup

The purpose of this group is to find support for people dealing with Aspergers. We would like to hold meetups so parents can talk with each other in dealing with Asperger children. Children can socialize with other children that are going through the same things. And so adults dealing with it can socialize with other adults, share with parents, and

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The Austin Asperger's Syndrome Meetup Group

This group is for: children with aspergers parents of children with aspergers teens with aspergers parents of teens with aspergers adults with aspergers family members of people with aspergers people who suspect they may have aspergers professionals who work with aspies This group is for you if you want to offer or are looking for supp

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08 May 2008, 2:28 am

There is a group in Calgary that meets in Denny's
http://aspergers.meetup.com/105/calendar/7167945/

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08 May 2008, 12:47 pm

spudnik wrote:

There is a group in Calgary that meets in Denny's
http://aspergers.meetup.com/105/calendar/7167945/

You people in the UK have it much better than American's with Asperger's. We are behind on it, and hardly anybody here has ever heard of it!

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08 May 2008, 5:43 pm

moo_cow wrote:

spudnik wrote:

There is a group in Calgary that meets in Denny's
http://aspergers.meetup.com/105/calendar/7167945/

You people in the UK have it much better than American's with Asperger's. We are behind on it, and hardly anybody here has ever heard of it!

I am in canada the top part of north america :lol:

Calgary is a city in Alberta, where we have the Calgary Stampede Rodeo, it sort of like Texas North

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09 May 2008, 5:05 am

lelia wrote:

Moo Cow, you definately have one of the best avatars I've ever seen. Made my morning.

Thanks, I needed an image to go with the screen name.

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12 May 2008, 11:44 pm

moo_cow wrote:

richie wrote:

You might want to try these people....
I myself do not know much about them.

http://aspergers.meetup.com/

Yeah, those are the ones I tried but never again. You can tell that parents of small children run them by just reading these descriptions.

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Haha, I remember reading those group descriptions when I lived in San Antonio. You'd think that the 7th largest city in the US would have at least 1 group for adults with AS.

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13 May 2008, 2:38 am

EvilKimEvil wrote:

Haha, I remember reading those group descriptions when I lived in San Antonio. You'd think that the 7th largest city in the US would have at least 1 group for adults with AS.

Where did you move to? Do you like it better there?

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13 May 2008, 7:41 am

theres a meet-up thread pinned at the top of the 'social skills & making friends' forum.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt41284.html

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