An AS support group coming to college near me...

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22 Oct 2004, 7:44 pm

Another brief update on my situation in Oshkosh.

This morning I attended another counseling session where I was suprised to find that I was being referred to another doctor who works in the couseling center.

This suprise turned out to be rather pleasent since as I discovered, this counsler has a son who also has aspergers.

In talking to this counsler, I found out that I was a near mirror of her son in terms of the symptoms and interests we both have.

In addition to handling my case now, I was also informed that she is seeing another male on campus who is probably also an aspie too.

During conversation I brought up the topic that if the UW-Oshkosh campus is represenative of the rest of the population, I estimated that there could be an many as 30 students on campus who have aspergers.

And with that, since there is absoultely no specialized services on campus geared directly to people who aspergers, the idea of forming a support group for aspies came up in conversation.

My new counsler thinks it's a good idea. I'll have to bring up the subject again next friday when I see her again.


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23 Oct 2004, 3:01 am

what a ray of hope, scoots!

great news. :)

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23 Oct 2004, 11:42 am

That is awesome, it will help people out so much!! Let me know how it goes and how you go about doing it, if you don't mind of course. There was this guy who rode the same bus I take to campus who I swore must be an aspie and he seemed miserable, and I started thinking about starting something like that on my own campus to help him and others and myself out but I don't know where to start. I think a major barrier though is that it's not very well known around here so most of the aspies at my school probably do not know they have AS. So the first step I guess it getting people educated about it. Well anyways good luck and I hope it works out!!



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23 Oct 2004, 11:43 am

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i'm also preparing a sheet for lecturers, to suggest some things to expect and some things they can do to work with students with AS


I would be very interested in seeing this sheet once you complete it. Maybe you could post it on this for all of us to read.

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I've already met one of the students, who is extremely, shall we say, blunt - he informed me that he thought i was a student, not a lecturer because of the stupid outfit i was wearing. I laughed like anything, but the people around me were horrified.


LOL. That's why I'm glad I'm a quiet aspie. Saying those kinds of things for me generally dosen't come to mind. Although I have had my moments.


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23 Oct 2004, 12:05 pm

vetivert wrote:
I've already met one of the students, who is extremely, shall we say, blunt - he informed me that he thought i was a student, not a lecturer because of the stupid outfit i was wearing. I laughed like anything, but the people around me were horrified.

That's just like me! I say such things when I try to be nice and pay a compliment.

Scott, I second others in expressing an interest on how your support group project is going.



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23 Oct 2004, 12:15 pm

don't just wait for me to post the information sheet - be part of it! any suggestions welcome. full details on school/college thread.

and yes, scoots - let us all know how it goes.

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23 Oct 2004, 4:15 pm

:D Thats Cool!


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