meetings?

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Does Wrong Planet ever have actual meetings, in the (gasp!) real world? I live in New York and I'd like to have the opportunity to meet some of the great people I've been talking to here.

Nope. A few UK WPers arranged to meet each other a while back, but WP never has actual meetings. Every once in a while someone will suggest or attempt to arrange a meeting, and they will almost invariably fail. We are quite geographically dispersed, you see, so it would be rather inconvenient to set up any type of meeting. Besides, I'm not sure if that many people would be interested in coming.

Mm, see your point. So we'll keep meeting here!

I would be. I think you would just have to have a general location. For example, I live in Southern California. The msot obvious answer would be to set up a meeting in a general location, and if pople from other states (or countries) wanted to join they could. Or Maybe There could be one in london, for the people in the UK and then people from all over would go... just the thought sounds lovely.

Curious. In the short period (less than three years) I have been aware of Asperger's syndrome, I have met (in real life) rather a lot of aspies (and their relations).

In the UK, we have an organisation called "Mind". I seem to recall the first time I met another diagnosed aspie was via their "walk in" place, moderately local to me. I literally did just that - I walked in, off the street, without any idea what the organisation was.

At around the same time, I joined a "Social Group", organised by the National Autistic Society, which I am now even more active in, as I'm acting as a representative for the local group at regional meetings.

Via WrongPlanet, I've also met up (in real life, again) with a few people. Notably Smelena (NT, but has her boys...) and Lemon. I've narrowly missed connecting up with the bunch of WPers , in London - mainly because I'm not too good at organising such things in advance.

Recently, I've done some work at a college and a residential home, where I've met... oh... I guess it must be another forty or so aspies.

I'm now starting to be hit by the "small world" syndrome, as I now run into other aspies that cross over between the groups I've mentioned. The latest was a guy who came along to the NAS reps meeting, and confused me, because I knew I recognised him, but couldn't place from where. It turned out he lives in a satellite house, run by the people who ran the residential home, and he had happened to meet me a couple of times there, visiting.

The more I meet, the more I understand me.