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13 Feb 2012, 11:57 pm

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I live in the NW! Issaquah, WA!

Hearing about Issaquah makes me think of the Krispe Kreme there. Good stuff.

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14 Feb 2012, 12:00 am

krispy kremes, i sure miss 'em
btw, this saturday, feb. 18@1PM, is our next bimonthly olympia aspies square pegs aspie meetup, at evergreen community college, in the lounge across from the cafeteria
be there or be unsquare [a round peg]

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14 Feb 2012, 12:45 am

I'm in Seattle. Ballard in fact. And you know, I've read the Scandinavians have higher rates of Asperger's, after all.

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14 Feb 2012, 1:05 am

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I'm in Seattle. Ballard in fact. And you know, I've read the Scandinavians have higher rates of Asperger's, after all.

welcome to our neat little club, MikeCheney

be aware that there is a square pegs aspie meetup group in seattle.

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16 Feb 2012, 4:42 pm

I live in Bellevue, WA. Not much to do around here.

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16 Feb 2012, 10:26 pm

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I live in Bellevue, WA. Not much to do around here.

but at least you are within reasonable driving distance of the seattle square pegs aspie meetup. :idea:

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17 Feb 2012, 1:27 am

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but at least you are within reasonable driving distance of the seattle square pegs aspie meetup. Idea

I was briefly signed up on meetup. None of the meetings caught my interest.

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17 Feb 2012, 4:48 am

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but at least you are within reasonable driving distance of the seattle square pegs aspie meetup. Idea

I was briefly signed up on meetup. None of the meetings caught my interest.

ok, if you don't mind, would you tell me what things were lacking that you wanted to see there? conversely, what things were there that you didn't like? just curious.

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17 Feb 2012, 7:49 pm

auntblabby wrote:

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but at least you are within reasonable driving distance of the seattle square pegs aspie meetup. Idea

I was briefly signed up on meetup. None of the meetings caught my interest.

ok, if you don't mind, would you tell me what things were lacking that you wanted to see there? conversely, what things were there that you didn't like? just curious.

I was just looking for a place to hang out, and I was a little confused with the schedule and all the different types of meetings. None of the meetings looked like something I'd care to spend my time finding. As I recall it was all a bunch of discussion groups in places I had never heard of, nothing piqued my interest.

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17 Feb 2012, 11:26 pm

StevenT wrote:

yes, there does seem to be quite a variety of aspie meetups up in king county. they have the large aspie population base and so they can be somewhat larger and more impersonal. if you are willing to travel about 3 hours south, to olympia, at evergreen community college, we have our bi-monthly aspie meetups the 1st and 3rd saturdays [next one is tomorrow, feb. 18th] at 1PM, in the lounge across from the cafeteria, if you are interested. our meetups are simpler, no subgroups or anything like that, just about 5 or 6 aspies at a round table, literally- a small enough group to where we can talk to each other and not break into cliques.

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22 Feb 2012, 5:06 am

StevenT wrote:

I'm actually working on that right now, I recently acquired the appropriate URLs and am building an off meetup.com hub for the SquarePegs meetings since we're growing so rapidly right now. It started with just the Seattle meetings, but little by little we're adding satellite groups and additional meetings with different focuses, and it is starting to clutter up the site, hence the pending migration.

The main Seattle meeting sounds the most like what you're looking for, it's not a discussion group, not a support group, more like a cocktail party where everyone just happens to be Aspies. Next one will be the second Saturday in March, the location is a rooftop cabana in Capitol Hill on the north end above I-5. The details are on the site if you want to check it out.

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23 Feb 2012, 4:10 am

auntblabby wrote:

Mike_Cheney wrote:

I'm in Seattle. Ballard in fact. And you know, I've read the Scandinavians have higher rates of Asperger's, after all.

welcome to our neat little club, MikeCheney

be aware that there is a square pegs aspie meetup group in seattle.

I've added the square pegs on my meet-up page, but haven't went yet. Looks like most of the meetups actually close enough for me to go to in town are held at a church.. I'm not really comfortable with churches. Also, these meetups seem like they'd be more "formal", or at least not as casual as the ones that I'm used to (with the Indianapolis Adults on the Spectrum)

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29 Feb 2012, 7:43 am

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I don't know if I'd describe any of the squarepegs meetings as formal, though some are more structured than others. The main Seattle meetup in Capitol Hill is really loose, a social event for Aspies rather than a support or discussion group, while the Olympia meetings are more discussion oriented, the south end is small and sort of group discussion focused, and the Wednesday discussions are very free form within the discussion format.

I'm more involved with the main Seattle meeting than any of the outliers, but I can tell you that the church setting is entirely incidental; the churches just happened to be the best (read cheapest) option for the satellite groups, as it's been notably difficult recruiting event leaders with available meeting spaces.

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29 Feb 2012, 8:16 am

ok, olympiaoids and thurston county types- the upcoming olympia square pegs aspie meetup will be this saturday, march 3@1PM, @evergreen community college, in the lounge across from the cafeteria, which is kitty-korner from the clock tower. hope to see some of ya there

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19 Mar 2012, 10:46 am

I live the Vancouver area (Whalley in North Surrey), but I don't have a car or passport to come down to the states

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20 Mar 2012, 1:38 am

I'm living in Salem, Oregon.

Wow only 3 people from Salem so far.

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