Aspergers Magazine

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Hey, this is interesting to see an old corpse resurrected .

I will try and explain what happened....

I was obsessed with these magazine for several months but hit a brick wall called "cat herding" issues . I was working with Inventor on this and we simply had to different concepts of the direction of the magazine . He wanted to market it and target it to high functioning aspies...people who were successful professional but just had social issues and confusion about
why they were "different" . I wanted it to reflect the full spectrum , including the less functional . I think our personally visions were based on our own experiences with AS...I am lower functioning then him and have major organizational and executive function problems. I did set up the original web-site on Moli.com and no one showed up to submit articles or offer help with editing and logistics and I knew I could not do it on my own .

When I understood that Inventor, the publisher and printer of the magazine did not want to play the game my way....I packed up my toys and went home ....how aspie . Then I got obsessed with starting a business selling my crafts items...something that has always interested me and forgot about the magazine . I also found out there is a web-site magazine for and by aspies, so I figured, "oh...it's being done" .

So....anyone still interested in this....it's a free world and I am not offended, (would be honored), if you continue the idea . I still want to see this happen and would subscribe myself if I can afford it . We still need a voice and you can contact Inventor and see if he is still interested in working on the plan . He does do some amazing printing and we are still friends working on other projects together...I highly recommend him as a business partner and a human being, (though his humor is often misunderstood, I find him one of the funniest humans I know . )

Wishing you all luck and hope you get this off the ground !

My life long amibtion has been to herd cats and I have alot of them so am glad to see that somebody else realizes the problems with that particular endeavor.
I can see how it metaphorically ties back into doing a magazine for Aspergians so it's a good thing you didn't go that route.
Cat herding if perfected will bring in far more money.

There is an autism magazine called "Advocate" but it's usualy packed full of articles on regular autism and curbie BS. We should start our own deticated soley to AS with no crappy curist ideas. Not just an onlie magazine but a printed one.

krex - could you tell me where I can find the existing online magazine? I would just like to be certain that - if I do continue with this - I'm not creating something too similar to what is already being done.

And if there's still enough interest, I would be VERY happy to take this task on myself, using my own paid-for webspace, with any and all help that I can get

I actually help publisha print magazine, not on this subject but another that is just as much of a niche market and it is a huge uphill battle so I wish you the best of luck. A good book you might want to consider is 'How to Start a Magazine" by James Kobak. It is the bible for a lot of us small time publishers.

Thank you. I'll look into that. Could I ask what the area of specific interest the magazine you are involved with happens to be, garyww?

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Actually 'wired' magazine is about as good as it gets for a mag that seems to pay attention to the autistic thing whatever that is.

Wired Magazine is just a technology journal/periodical isn't it? Unless you mean a different 'Wired' that I've not heard about.

That's the one and I have seen more articles in there than in most places.

Right now autism is a hot topic in both the press and the film media and I predict at least two new movies this year about autistic people. It all stated with Mercury Rising which was popular only because of the kid, not Bruce Willis. I've seen three specials in just the last two months.

I can't find my bookmark of the magazine but if you have the patience...goole Asperger and autism magazines. One thing you will notice right away is how many times Asperger/Autism Digest shows up...a hard core curbie mag for "experts to reinforce their current misinformation and inability to grasp the concept that aspies DO grow up and become adults .

I did find this...not exclussively about AS but looks cool and I plan on hengin out there tonight ....

http://irkedmagazine.com/tag/aspergers-syndrome/


All I can recall about the emagazine was that there was an interview with WP founder, Alex on it . So you might find it googling WP under Alex interviews ?

I still can't say that I have seen anything exactly like I had originally invisioned, which was to stress the positives of AS and our creative abilities and intellectual interests not just our "AS" issues .

Hmm, okay, thank you. I will do some research! There is no point in attempting to create something to fill a niche in the market that has already been adequately filled.

However, I still do think the continuation of your original vision has potential and would still be keen to follow it up and at least attempt to make a go of it.

This is a cool idea. I write stuff and make art, so would love to contribute.

Actually I agree. I still think it is a good idea and I still prefer the idea of having something in my hand rather then just on-line. I like the idea of ever subscriber planting their read issues in every library and Dr's office in America Still wishing you luck and offering you both encouragement and my time if you have better luck getting people to contribute articles . I also still have a Publisher 2007 around here some where that I would mail you if you want it . I am just not computer literate enough to know how to use it...I'm 45 and my first computer experience was only a few years ago . I'm a "bookie" not a "techy" . Before there was Aspergers we were just called "book worms".

Thank you for the offer Appreciated, however I already have the entire Office suite, including publisher, and I also have Illustrator, Photoshop, FrontPage and a range of other graphics and publishing tools at my disposal.

Producing the magazine at the design stage will not be a problem. Getting it published in a good quality accessible format that can be obtained easily by anyone who wants it will be the larger issue.

I have a professional artist friend who may be able to offer some links but I can't be sure. I can explore several avenues, but I think stage one would be to see if I can get enough material to make a draft issue that could be used as an example.