So I went to a aspergers and autism support group today...

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Unfortunately, it is very far north (near NYS and PA)... I twill be at least a couple of months before I get a car and be able to go anywhere away from here.

Oops. I knew that months ago. My brain was elsewhere for a moment.
I knew I shouldn't have had that lobotomy.

Wow! I guess I am lucky.Several people from WP meet at my shut-down performance and arts space once a week. It is an informal gathering that centers around the Sunday cookouts that we have.

Last night..lets see..there were likesay...7 or 8 intermingling with our cast of eccentric regulars which already happens to have quite a few people who are at least somewhat close to being on the spectrum, if not fully on it.

I spend much of the time pacing around frantically, and have a hard time settling myself down for various reasons, and when I do, I am usually hiding behind my ukulele or um..only able to settle down for a few minutes before there is something else I have to go pacing around for....but people seem to have a good time there, otherwise they wouldn't keep coming back. It would be cool if we could get even more aspies to come out...and if Flakey would not be so uptight about having people hang out inside (they do anyway )

Last Thursday I went to an AS support group that was way far away and though there were several of the WP members that I knew there, it was really hard to get comfortable, and when I got back home, i ended up having a little bit of a meltdown...i started getting kinda melty at the meeting and was able to calm down and stave it off till I got home.

It took place in a church that looked like a hospital and there were flourescent lights everywhere...and the ceilings were low in the meeting rooms. The group was so big that we had to switch rooms, and that was good, because the first room was really small and divided funnily and the carpet pattern was driving me nuts.
The next room was bigger and more comfortable, but I was feeling really tense and squirmy and couldn't get out of my shell.
There were ALOT of people there. I was later told that that was the biggest turnout ever. Alot of talk seemed to center around the notion of starting a forum kinda like Wrong Planet, but specificly for Houston.
Afterwards, we all went to IHOP, and that was the best part.

Anyway..I am divided on whether or not I want to go back to those meetings. I keep redundantly complaining about the lights..because they caused me alot of problems...but really it had mostly to do with how badly I can tend to do when I am outside my comfort zone...So I guess it would be good for me to get out of my comfort zone more often, and I could wear sunglasses in the meetings.

I think it would be neet if there were regular meetings that happened closer to where I live. I would like to have something at my venue or someplace like that...aside from the informal meetings that already happen there...except, when I am helping facilitate, it is really difficult to relax...and also I think it would be neat if the meetings happened in a flourescent-free zone, and my the main area of my venue has flourescent lights too.