Meetup in Central London, UK

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I'm trying to revive the regular meetups that lotusblossom used to organise in central London up until recently for most of 2009 and early 2010.

I'm looking to organise a meetup on Saturday the 4th December starting from 11am, though I will probably be at the Waterstones from 10am onwards

The venue will be the cafe at the bottom of the Waterstones bookstore in Piccadilly circus

203/206 Piccadilly
London
W1J 9HD

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The Nearest tube station is Piccadilly Circus

http://www.tubeplanner.com/



The Waterstones looks like this from the outside. The cafe is located in the basement



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Any questions?

That sounds a great idea

I cant get babysitting for that day but would have very much liked to have gone.

I want to get into meet ups again. Ive been very isolated and could do with some social interaction.

I hope you have a good day and I will let you know if I manage to organise something.

I would like to organise two other meetups at some point in the future

One at Kew Gardens/Richmond park

the other being more of a hiking one somewhere in the home counties possibly the downs or the vast heathland and woods in the county of Surrey as well

But those are probably best left till the spring when the weather conditions improve

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yes

Be good to see you again Psych its been awhile

I'm going and I'm dragging HereComeTheLizards with me.

What about Locustman or is he still a mystery poster

I would be there but no longer in London



I'm always happy to meet new aspies.

learn, discover, learn more about myself.

Well I'm in a "garden city" myself so i'm not in london either

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Could do, it's only 45 minutes for me... if anyone's inherently interested in a +1 attendance. It's good to socialise at this time of year particularly.
What do people talk about? The thing that we all share somewhat, random stuff, or what?

good luck with it, i'll be at the other meet in manchester as its a bit closser.

I'm going. Should be all right for the day.

All three would be relevant and worthwhile pursuits for conversing. Some of us may be more articulate and imaginative in what we would converse some of us may be a bit rigid in what we talk about. For example, I can usually talk to death about issues regarding the work I do which involves aspergers syndrome, so I can talk someone to death quite easily around both the personal aspects of my own asperger experiance and the professional aspects of my knowledge and role in the work I do. It kinda is one of my obsession's too I guess

Sometimes its quite satisfying to find another aspie who shares a similair interest to yourself and share your enjoyment of that pursuit/passion/interest/hobby with each other.

Sometimes maybe you have nothing in common with the other person you meet who has AS and you simply have the possiblity of having your perceptions and opinions on a certain matter challenged or the chance for a person to share with you an area of interest to them that they are passionate about that you have no experiance of at all and thus you gain an insight into something you perhaps would never have been exposed too in your own personal life circumstances.

I find a good way of making enemies quickly is to bring up politics and relgion particularly if you have strong passionate views on a given principle and feel it is a moral outrage if someone contradicts or challenges your viewpoint on that. Aspies not neccesarily being the most diplomatic chaps on the planet this can sometimes lead to wonderful confrontations that spiral out of control, very rare but does happen sometimes. People are people after all AS or not.

I'm quite tolerant patient for the most part so I don't mind having to make an extra effort to communicate with someone if they are not natural or comfortable in a group situation. But likewise, im happy for people to simply come along and be the silent observers or "flys on the wall" if they wish i sometimes do the same in the local london groups when i feel i dont have the mental energy to socialise directly but still would prefer the company and presence of conversation instead of sat at home alone.

Would this be a fairly regular thing? I can't make this one but I'd like to come to a future one (if I can get over my shyness).