Anyone in Gainesville, Florida or around the area?

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I can't find a place that evaluates for adult asperger's but I'm still looking. Does anyone know of any support groups or clinics, etc. . . ?

Thanks in advance.

I'm from Tallahassee. Close, but still a ways off. There's an Asperger's group that meets weekly at a local bookstore here. It looks to consist of maybe 5 guys.

I'm near Jacksonville and haven't found any places around here. The closest I heard of so far was in Savannah :/

i want to go to florida some day, preferably when its hurricane season

I guess you're kidding, because the last hurricane season we had, which was my first, was damned scary!

im absolutely serious, i have been through a tornado before! they had to pry me away from outside

afterwards i'd be a vandal and hit up all the pawn shops, pawn shops always have the best stuff

I'm going to the University of Florida next year, so I'll be in Gainesville soon enough.

we had a surprise visit from my mother's sister and her boyfriend from california the day before Andrew hit

You might want to see if there is a Center for Autism and Related Disorders there. They have an office in Tampa. CARD. Sometimes hooked into the mental health office...

Well I'm kinda late to get to this, but I would like to know, or even meet people here in Gainesville with AS. I don't know anyone with it, or have anyone to talk to about it, so something would be nice.

Yes, there are a few places in Orlando that can give you a diagnoses if you want. The place I checked on said it cost around $850 total. I can give you the doctor's name if you want it, but to be honest why would you want to get diagnosed? You probably already know that you have it. All AS test are based on behavior. They don't hook your brain up to a machine or anything like that. In my opinion it can go against you later in life when are looking for health insurance because then AS would be considered preexisting condition. Of course insurance companies will do nothing to help you if you have AS (pay for anything), but you can bet your ass they will count it against you with your rates if you do show you have it. Email me if you want the number in Orlando. [email protected]

Check them out - http://www.florida-autism.com/ they'll be able to refer you if you can't find what you need on the site.

There is a CARD office on 13th street just north of campus. If you head north from the intersection on University, if will be on your right. They share a building with a speech clinic, but the CARD office is somewhat integrated with the university. Look for one of those blue UF signs.

I've only been to the new office once, and they have a monthly support group that I just started with.

Meh, I have been diagnosed for some time now. I'm not sure how long it has been but something >5 years by now. I don't know if I ever have had a formal diagnosis, but over the course of my life, I have had many psychologists, and any of the ones I have seen recently are very ceartin I do have AS. But as fas as getting help, I would need to find something low-cost or free since I don't have insurance. And with some more serious medical conditions that are considered terminal, it looks near impossible to get any sort of medical insurance. So there isn't much I can do about that. But since I am >90% positive I have it, I want to look for something more of the lines of a support group and not another diagnosis.



I know what you're talking about. I guess it was the old office that I went to which I think was off of 16th. But that was also a few years back, and I felt really uncomfortable with the fact I was dealing with the fact that I have this disorder. (It still haunts me to this day, and I try to deny having it, even though I know it's there and it will never go away.) But like I said above, my financial situation is somewhat of a problem with the lack of insurance, and the fact I could never get it. I can only hope I can get some funding elsewhere, or I really don't know what I could do about that.