Aspies of TX, AR, LA, and OK unite!

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I think our 4-state region is the most unrepresented region on this board. I'm curious as to how many of us there actually are.

There's gotta be a lot of aspies and HFA's here at UT. We're smart, and UT is the best university for 1000 miles in every direction (Stanford/Berkeley out west, University of Chicago/Michigan up north, and Duke to the east).

Houston Aspie here!! !

There are lots of us in AR and southern MO. By and large not people with diagnoses but people that just moved back into the sticks and set up their routines and get along there because all they really want is to be left alone.

Go out in the boonies and sit and watch. Drink a cup of coffee in the same place at the same time for a few weeks-- people will start to speak to you. They will say things like "Good morning" or "nice weather". You say the same. You keep this up for a few weeks, a few months. They start to speak more. Don't stop being careful (they won't either), but you speak more. Next thing you know you are having a conversation with people who actually get you.

This is what happened to me out in the boonies in NWAR, little place NNE of Fayetteville on the MO border. It was the first place in my life I ever felt accepted. Living in Pittsburgh's back bedroom closet sucks donkey balls by comparison. I miss it. When my family in the East is gone I might go back.

Austin.. we keep it weird

Hailing from East Texas, living in the piney woods and loving it.

Arlington, TX here

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I'm in North West Arkansas. Would love to find other Aspies around here to connect with

I'm from North Texas!

I am a houston aspie!! !!

I'm from San Antonio.

I'm from south Louisiana & lived there till I moved in with my girlfriend in Vermont 4 years ago. If there's less folks on this board from there it's because the medical system s#cks balls. It's hard to afford the testing when Medicaid & private insurance doesn't cover it. & even if you do get testing the so-called experts think autism is like a less sever form of mental retardation. When I was a toddler my mom asked my GP if I could be autistic & he said Nick's just being Nick. I saw a psychiatrist at 20 who diagnosed me as having Aspergers & referred me for testing. When I was tested they thought I communicated too well verbally & seemed too intelligent to have anything on the autism spectrum. I was told I had Aspergers but it was NOT due to autism. Aspergers just meant personality that may or may not be due to having autism. The testing cost me thousands of dollars cuz Medicaid & my private insurance did not cover it.