Are there Aspergers groups?

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Like to teach social skills?

Anyone know any good ones?

I have never heard of one.

I started going to one recently, it's run by a county-wide charity in the UK. Where do you live?

im in orlando Florida you guys in the uk seem to have more going on for AS people.

Possibly, it would surprise me though because in terms of help, awareness and diagnosis for AD/HD we're at least a decade behind the USA. I think you're in the best country for mental health care more generally, except financially. Have you tried looking up local organisations for autistic people? That's how I found this one. Most of its services are for low functioning people but they do the group for anyone on the spectrum they judge could benefit from it, though there's still a great range of severity. I contacted them, explained my situation, and was told about the service over the telephone. Arranged a meeting with the person who runs it and he told me all about it.

Are you kidding? Here in America, we are "supposed to get over yourself, suck it up, quit complaining and get back to work before I give your job to someone that can keep their problems to their self."

(sarcasm folks)

my town must have over 100,000 people and there is absolutely nothing, my social worker, she said I should start up a group, no idea how you would do that.

Employee rights is a separate issue, and I agree it seems to me from news stories we get here that employees can get sacked for things that you could never be sacked for here, I mean even things you've done in the past that have no relevance to your current duties, just stuff your employer doesn't like. You could sue them for trying that here. But I was talking about availability of diagnosis (that is a real pain the arse, trust me lol), medical care (it's much less common to be prescribed medication for psychiatric problems here, especially in childhood), support groups and public awareness, because they're related to what Corps900 is looking for. I think it's worth him/her looking up autism-related organisations because if there's something nearby me, it seems likely to me that there's something near him/her though of course there might not be.