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30 Dec 2014, 8:42 pm
LyraLuthTinu wrote:
I didn't know there was a regularly scheduled Aspie meetup in Olympia. I am interested--don't know how the sig.oth. would feel about the regular transportation expense, and he's already predicted that I wouldn't gain anything from going to such things. Knowing how introverted I am, he might have a point. But then again, it might help me to feel a little less out of place in this NT-normative world! Are there private messages on this board? I've never used them, but I want a map and an address and a flyer or something. Would have to show the s.o. to gain a foothold on trust...Hm. That would include this Saturday, yah? Would there be other dweebs there saying "To The Professor" and knowing we were talking about Tolkien? 
(clicky)square pegs Olympia aspie meetup page
I have to admit
that my cat knows more about hobbit stuff than I do. I have the common aspie male allergy to fiction. but if it makes you happy then it is a great thing! 
there are no PMs on that page that I could find, you post a question and the site master [Carl] will get back with you, you will [if you register with the site] get email notifications of such. PM me if you have any questions about it. basically you take the evergreen college exit off of hiway 101, park in the first parking lot you will see past the guard shack- beware of speed bumps. you will have to walk through a woodsy dirt area until you see buildings, the meetup location is in the main bldg. on the right side of the quad [the big open area with the clock tower straight ahead], on the ground floor across from the egg plant cafeteria.
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30 Dec 2014, 8:44 pm
LyraLuthTinu wrote:
The Oly Square Pegs meeting--looks like it is almost a 35 mile trip for me and googlemaps says it would take nearly an hour in that dreaded thing known as traffic. I hate traffic. Of course it never stopped me from going to the races in Rochester when I was dating a certain racecar engine mechanic... I do miss those days. Happily I don't have to miss him because my racecar guy is still my s.o. So I will "put a pin in it" as the annoying agent in the movie Bolt always said.
So I will "put a pin in it" as the annoying agent in the movie Bolt always said.I hate traffic also, it is a two-hour round trip for me living in the wilds of mason county. I believe there might be another tacoman who attends.
30 Dec 2014, 8:58 pm
Thank you for the link, AuntBlabby.
Unfortunately,
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and there isn't much I can find out without joining.
I don't know how to use the PM function on this board
but I like the idea of walking through a woodsy area to get to a meeting on a college campus. I like college campi. Academics is about the only thing I've ever really felt I was good at.
And I love fiction. I read somewhere--I think maybe Attwood's complete guide to Asperger's--that female Aspies often like fantasy worlds. I love them. I think that might be my special interest.
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30 Dec 2014, 9:03 pm
LyraLuthTinu wrote:
Thank you for the link, AuntBlabby. Unfortunately,
and there isn't much I can find out without joining. I don't know how to use the PM function on this board but I like the idea of walking through a woodsy area to get to a meeting on a college campus. I like college campi. Academics is about the only thing I've ever really felt I was good at. And I love fiction. I read somewhere--I think maybe Attwood's complete guide to Asperger's--that female Aspies often like fantasy worlds. I love them. I think that might be my special interest.
Quote:
This group's content is available only to members
and there isn't much I can find out without joining.
I don't know how to use the PM function on this board but I like the idea of walking through a woodsy area to get to a meeting on a college campus. I like college campi. Academics is about the only thing I've ever really felt I was good at. And I love fiction. I read somewhere--I think maybe Attwood's complete guide to Asperger's--that female Aspies often like fantasy worlds. I love them. I think that might be my special interest.well, I joined the site and I am still alive.
and sometimes I am even kicking 
as for PMs, there is a button underneath my post box [each of them] that you can push, and it will take you to a WP page that communicates with me or whose other posts you click the PM buttons on. or I could just PM you and all you would have to do is respond or not respond. I will do that, if you please.
30 Dec 2014, 9:25 pm
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30 Dec 2014, 9:27 pm
30 Dec 2014, 9:39 pm
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my meetup generally has less than 6 people in it.
Unfortunately I live in Iowa and lack to resources to make a trip to Seattle because I'm a poor college student
30 Dec 2014, 9:40 pm
auntblabby wrote:
my meetup generally has less than 6 people in it.
Unfortunately I live in Iowa and lack to resources to make a trip to Seattle because I'm a poor college student
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30 Dec 2014, 9:40 pm
Feyokien wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
my meetup generally has less than 6 people in it.
Unfortunately I live in Iowa and lack to resources to make a trip to Seattle because I'm a poor college student
darn.
oh well I am sure you will find something suitable for you closer to home.
30 Dec 2014, 9:42 pm
auntblabby wrote:
Feyokien wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
my meetup generally has less than 6 people in it.
Unfortunately I live in Iowa and lack to resources to make a trip to Seattle because I'm a poor college student
darn.
oh well I am sure you will find something suitable for you closer to home. Yeah it sucks, I've never actually meet another aspie irl. It also seems like there aren't any other aspies from Iowa on Wrongplanet.
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30 Dec 2014, 9:46 pm
Feyokien wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Feyokien wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
my meetup generally has less than 6 people in it.
Unfortunately I live in Iowa and lack to resources to make a trip to Seattle because I'm a poor college student
darn.
oh well I am sure you will find something suitable for you closer to home. Yeah it sucks, I've never actually meet another aspie irl. It also seems like there aren't any other aspies from Iowa on Wrongplanet.
I lucked out and straightaway found a fellow WPer at my local square pegs aspie meetup. you might try square pegs and see what they come up with [aspie meetup-wise] in your neck of the woods. and I found in retrospect I have met many aspies but was not conscious at the time that these folk were indeed aspie, as it was before I knew that I myself was one.
30 Dec 2014, 10:01 pm
I probably should but I have some misgivings. Bringing even more idiosyncratic thought into my life might be a slippery slope at this juncture.
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30 Dec 2014, 10:03 pm
I know my life is roughly divided into two main parts- before and after wrong planet, and of the second part, before and after meeting other aspies in person
30 Dec 2014, 10:07 pm
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