Meeting others with Autism/Aspergers - Advice?

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I'm going to a sort of Social event on Friday for other adults with Autism/Aspergers. And I'm not really sure what I should do when I get there.

Talking is an obvious answer.. But I haven't met anyone else with Autism or Aspergers. So I was wondered if anyone had any tips or advice?

(Hope I posted this in the right section!)

This is inherently hard to give advice on so I can see your situation.

How should a (possibly) socially stilted person interact with a number of other highly variably socially stilted people?

Uhhh... Smile a lot, and try to look safe?

Say something controversial/wrong and sit back while everybody chatters about what's "actually right"?

Look up just one train then reference it in conversation and get the year make or engine wrong?
(don't learn all the functions, just find one to be wrong about and say it early)
Do the same thing with a telegraph pole, a car, a dinosaur, a computer, and a physics topic?
That should be enough to have people chatting away at you all evening.

the autism group I went to as a teenager,were mostly
nerdy guys,who would yell,and were very hyper.
they were high school kids,so maybe adult autism support
group,may be different.