Seeking Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism Adults in GA

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Hello all!

I am an anthropology graduate student working furiously to develop some thesis research. I ahev some immediate needs though, and I need meet with two willing participants before March 1st. Any age from High School to adult will be just fine.

Prefer metro Atlanta, but I can travel within reason.

Please send a private message if you are interested. All contacts and material will be confidential, and no identities disclosed.

Thanks!


PS - I am new here, and I am pretty sure that I am not neurotypical. I have no diagnosis myself, but will be seeking one soon.

You know, there is one brake on the human murder-instinct: "Could this happen to me?"

If it looks as though a segment of society is beating up on you, some people will come to your defense out of fear of the person beating up on you*, even if they don't care one whit about you.

I have a sneaking suspicion that honest research would come up with something a lot more favorable than what's out there right now.

*cuz even if they're dumb, they know they're next.

I'm not having any luck. This is not a "study" in the sense that labels and diagnostics apply.

I suspect the major reason is that this is an international forum, and your requiring people to be physically present to conduct your research. Most of the people reading this won't even be from the same country. (On which note i'll say "Hello" from Great Britain. )

If we say there are a couple of dozen people fitting your criteria registered on the site. (I have no many idea how many people are actually from Atlanta, USA). If your lucky a quarter of those people will visit the site, view this thread and notice your request within the time your actually interested in doing the research.

If you then accept that a quarter of those people will be willing to give up their time to meet a random stranger from "the internet" to help him with his research (a percentage which is probably quite high considering your target group...) then your expected pool of people is around one and a half people. (Do we round the fraction up or down? )

I'm just trying to make the point that while there may be quite a lot of people available who would be willing to help you, they are likely to be spread over a larger geographical area than your willing or capable of travelling over. I have no idea of what sort of research your hoping to do, but if you look around the forum then people do post questionnaires on the forum and rarely struggle to get a few dozen people to fill them in. If your able to do your research in a way that allows members from further afield to help you then you may get a better response.

If you do need to meet with people one to one then to be honest I think your stuffed. You could write to your local autistic groups (ie; http://www.asaga.com/) and ask them to forward your information to all of your members, but to be honest I wouldn't expect them to go out of their way to help you.

Nope, sorry.

Geographical location is effectively irrelevant to us the majority of the time, to be honest it's only really a problem for you trying to track down people in your area. I'm not convinced that posting any amount of information is going to help you, since your major problem is that the majority of people your interested in communicating with won't have read this thread in the time your looking to do your research. Most uni students manage to get by posting a list of questions and just waiting for the answers to just roll in from people around the world who are willing to answer them which usually provides an adequate number of replies. Is this not an option for you?