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rileydaboss2000
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20 Feb 2016, 6:14 pm

I am wondering if anyone here goes to groups where they can interact with anyone else autistic.
I have been doing this for a few weeks now, and I am enjoying it. I go to it every tuesday after school, and interact and play with the other members there. Sometimes, one of the staff there takes me out on the weekend (or holiday) to go to a place that I want to go to, and its really fun :)



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20 Feb 2016, 6:26 pm

i have, and i'd say it was a positive experience for me, but not in the same way
it was a little bit like the scene in the movie about brad cohen, "front of the class", where brad goes to the tourette's support group with his mother, and they meet a variety of people with tourette's syndrome that have "let tourette's win" in that their parents had given up on them or pulled them out of school because it was too much hassle/they didn't believe in their child, and they were all unemployed and had no prospects. my experience with the autism support group has inspired me in much the same way as brad cohen was inspired by his experiences in that i now strive to be "better" than those i met at the group, and don't let autism hold me back. since then, i have won an engineering scholarship that required me to do interviews, and i have forced myself to take part in public speaking competitions in order to improve myself. i now make more of an effort than ever before to not only maintain my relationships, but to forge them.

from the way that you talk about it though, it sounds like your experience with the youth group was very different from mine.

even though the film is about tourette's and overcoming it, it is probably applicable to most neurological disorders, including autism/asperger's, and has certainly inspired me. i can't find the scene i'm referencing, but iirc the film is often shown on TV.



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20 Feb 2016, 7:01 pm

That's cool. Glad they have that for you. The kids in my school all have autism, so not much point in joining an after school group for me. Although my school has after school activities. I really enjoyed special needs summer camp last year.



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21 Feb 2016, 10:06 am

Oh cool. Good to see that some people on this site go to other youth centres suitable for them as well :D