Communities

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Are you a part of any sort of community? Do you consider online groups and fandoms to count as communities? I've seen the word used to describe them before but I don't know if I agree with it.

I wish I belonged to a group of people, in real life, who I could see regularly and talk to comfortably.

I personally tend to use the word "community" to refer not to an individual online group/forum, but to the larger organized subculture(s) that a group is part of, a subculture that in most cases will include in-person groups as well as online groups.


I'm sure many of us wish we could have such a group.

This is one of the reasons why the autistic community needs to get a lot bigger and better organized than it is now, to include a wide variety of groups for people who have more in common than just autism. (For example, autistic people with specific hobbies or career goals.)

I belong to a church and small group so thats like a community.I know lots of people there and have friends there but it has its problems like any other community.