What social life experience was a blast for you?

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Was it preschool? Elementary school? Summer camp? High school? College? University? Vocational school? Apprenticing somewhere? A job you had? Volunteering somewhere? Living in a commune? Being at home with a big chaotic family? A group tour someplace?


For me, I have no experiences like that yet; I enjoyed seeing others have a blast on my trip to Europe in grade 11. I plan to make college a blast, to make our commune a blast, etc.

My first trip to a Subgenius event!

For me it was 9th grade, when we moved back to the northern part of the country after having lived in a suburb of Stockholm for two years, where I had been bullied a bit. I felt very welcome in my new school, friends approached me and so on. The good feeling lasted until the end of high school, when my family fell apart.

defintly going to disneyland, knotts berry farm and universal studios when i was a kid. are pediatrician took some of the kids from the ghettos

Going to Madison, Wisconsin. Even though it's a highly social place, everybody was very friendly and tolerant of my aspie quirks. It's the Amsterdam of the Midwest, where uniqueness is not looked down upon (drugs and prostitution are illegal, however).

Madison is indeed pretty cool!

I would say going to the World Series in 2004 and seeing my beloved Red Sox finally win one.

Most of my Secondary School was a social blass especially at the end of Year 9 when we went to London for a week it was fun.

Last fall (i.e. 2006). In September 2006 I took my master's degree. Soon afterwards my older brother took me for a short trip to New York to celebrate. A few days after we came back I went with my folks on a tour of Greece to see the archeological remains, including of course the Acropolis in Athens and the Oracle of Delphi. It was the best time of my life up to now.

For me, having a best friend when I was 12 was a blast.

Oh yeah, IdahoRose, you reminded me... I had a best friend when I was 11 and it was a blast! I got her obsessed with America's Most Wanted and we formed our own little society called Most Wanted! We kept files on criminals and missing children and that, and practised "age-progressing" pictures of people in magazines by hand with markers.

When I was younger, I went to a "nerd camp" for a few years (...the Johns Hopkins CTY program for those in the know). The last year there was just plain amazing for me socially. For the first time in my life, I had a steady group of friends that I got along with very well and felt both genuninely close to individuals and accepted by the community (those two things are usually an either/or deal). Great times. I kind of wish college was more like that program...

The first spiritual weekend seminar I attended with the forum I used to moderate.
Some of the moderators (I wasn't a moderator at the time of the seminar) got together to give me a little gift and card as they knew how hard I found it to do new things etc. Didn't know about AS then, just knew it was very nerve wracking.

In 2004 (and again this summer), I went to a week long christian youth event called Triennium. I got to meet people from all around the world, and a crap load of others from different parts of the US. The weird thing was the whole event sorta defied my Asperger's. I felt pretty comfortable talking to complete strangers, and also weird was that they felt the same way. It was amazing that you could have a meaningful convo with any of the 6000 strangers there. Man was that an experience! I still have a friend in Florida that I talk to from time to time from the event.

And when I returned to the high school, everything seemed so different. I felt like I had left home.

So yeah I make it a point to return every 3 years.

When I was 10 my scout troop went camping for a week that summer. We weren't a by the book unit and didn't even have uniforms but that made it easier for me. I’m note even sure we were sanctioned by the Boy Scouts of America but I didn’t care.
It had been a pretty crappy year for me at home and not all that great in school. I was reluctant to go at first. I thought I'd hate it and I'd never been away from home before. By the time we went I got sort of used to the idea. I was still nervous, though. That apprehension didn't last long at all once we got to the area we camped at.
We slept in tents and all of our cooked food was done on an open fire. Our scout leaders didn't control us too much but just enough to keep us out of trouble and close enough to generally watch. They'd take us on long hikes in the woods and let us play in the creek by the campsite and whatever. Fishing, too. I never felt more at home and at ease with myself and those around me than during that time. Probably not since, either. On the last day we had a cookout for us and our families. My mother and younger brother came for that. My mother said she had never seen me so full of life and happy. I didn’t want that time to end.
To top that off when we got home I had a new bike waiting for me! Mine had been ripped off a few weeks before camp. That week was definitely THE highpoint for me as a kid.
My scout troop lasted another year and a half then pretty much broke up. Too bad because it was the best thing for me. Other kids, too.

When I was 8.5 and just moved here from NJ to NY i met a few neghboorhood kids and we became friends, even best friends, it lasted for years but that summer was the best as far as making friends and fitting in, it all went downhill slowly from then on until the end of high school.

My best friend and I used to obsess over anime and manga together. The year that we spent together was one of the happiest times of my whole life. We would watch our favorite shows together (which were Rurouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha), listen to Japanese music and draw pictures of each other anime-style. The very best part was when we spent the night at each others' houses and took turns telling stories to each other until we fell asleep.