Have you had any luck meeting other Aspies?

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I want to meet even more Aspies, but nobody wants to meet me.

My best friend of 15 years has Asperger Syndrome. We have had a strong and close relationship even though we have managed to get on each others nerves, annoy one another, and have bored each other at times. The friendship sadly even went south for about a year when my friend's drug-addicted and aggresive brother died, we both had differing responces to the event. It came back as strong as it was before though. We met each other when we both worked at the local public library. My friend is planning to get married next year.

I had another friend whom I grew up and went to school with who has a number of traits of AS. I did not pick up on this as a child, but much later, when I was assisting him with the community that he was mayor of after a flood. He often would rock back and forth during city council meetings, rarely displayed affection or emotion, had an aversion to being hugged or touched, would say and do sociallly inapproprate things, took commentary literally and had special interests in firefighting, politics, and construction/ maintence. If my mind serves me right, he may of been diagnosed with borderline autism as a child. He has a wife and three children, and a real strong friendship with a kid in the neighborhood as a child, so these two things detract a little bit from a diagnosis. Sadly, he kind of told me off last year (long story that I have recanted on here).

I learned of recent too of a person that I shared a class with during college that had AS. I never knew of his AS at the time, the only thing I can remember about the person was his adherence to Mormonism. I sometimes wish that I would of got to know the last two people I mentioned a little bit better, and the last person that I mentioned would have said something about his AS to me. I would of liked to got to know him better.

I agree with the comment about AS/autism support groups, I recently attended a session of one in the University city that is about 1/2 hour away from me. I also thought the same thing that "none of these people are like me." For some reason, they didnt remind me of any of folks with AS that I knew from my past. I might attend more sessions in the future to see if mind changes about these folks.

Honestly, I haven't tried. I think I can pick them out in public though.

Howyousay...

I have managed to come across quite a few.
For a while there was an aspie group that met here that consisted of people from WP and people from a local aspie group..there was a really big thread a while back for Houstonian aspies...but the whole thing dissolved after a while...There is just little bits of messaging here and there....They used to come to a cookout at my venue, and they had meetings every first Sunday...that I could not attend unless they happened at my place...and another monthly meeting that still takes place across town that I could never attend partially due to schedule conflicts, and partially due to the stress of riding in the car with someone I was not used to riding with, and then the place itself was in a florescent-lit meeting room in a church that looked more like a hospital..and the whole thing caused me to have a meltdown...the one time that I attended.

All of us were very different from one another...

Anyway...i also have friends who do not really associate themselves with the AS community..some tend to be the wilder more artsy ASish types...One older guy is a great musician, and helped pioneer the pirate radio station I used to be involved with...another is my very good friend...he is one of a handful of spectrumy-types that sorta started hanging around my venue when it was at it's old location, because it was a place where they could go and feel comfortable...

Not sure how many I have met in total. I have one female friend who comes around who was diagnosed with ADD at the amen clinic before much was known about Asperger's ..and to me she seems to be very ASish..

I personally know 12-15 people on the spectrum.

I am willing to travel if necessary, but it's mainly the issue of whether the other person(s) would be interested.

I've met only one person with a similar condition IRL.

I really want to be reunited with a WP member I met in person a couple of years ago, but have since lost contact with her, and I have no way to reach her.

I live in Pakistan, where people haven't even heard of autism, let along Asperger's. Haven't met a single Aspie so far, though I'd love to.

met 7 aspies at aspie group

I met a small group, between 5-11, at the 'After Hours' social at Oakland University, and I also have an old friend who shows core traits of AS.

Me and this one guy have this aspie gaydar kind of thing where neither of us have admitted to having AS or talk about it, but we both know that it's true. This is a great aid to me when I'm looking for interesting people to be friends with.

Seven aspies. One autistic.
Three aspies are friends. Three are family members obviously not including myself.