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09 Nov 2010, 3:58 pm

And WHAT shall we DO at this auspicious occasion?

Will there be WORKSHOPS on various topics?

Opening/Closing ceremonies?

A Hospitality Suite?

A banquet?

How would we have a convention of people who often feel LOST or SPOOKED in CROWDS with some having MELTDOWNS and others going into SHUTDOWN?

Oh...I'VE been to ONE Twelve Step convention too many!



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09 Nov 2010, 4:01 pm

I would like to meet myself.

I went out to find myself and haven't yet returned. If you run into me, direct me home an introduce us ...



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09 Nov 2010, 5:19 pm

I would like to meet all of above, and the Face of Boo


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09 Nov 2010, 11:36 pm

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I'm in western washington. :)


what county? king? pierce? thurston? mason? pacific? grays harbor? jefferson? clallam? just curious 8)



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09 Nov 2010, 11:37 pm

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I would like to meet myself.

I went out to find myself and haven't yet returned. If you run into me, direct me home an introduce us ...


if i met me i'd marry me on the spot.



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09 Nov 2010, 11:42 pm

Surreal wrote:
And WHAT shall we DO at this auspicious occasion?

Will there be WORKSHOPS on various topics?

Opening/Closing ceremonies?

A Hospitality Suite?

A banquet?

How would we have a convention of people who often feel LOST or SPOOKED in CROWDS with some having MELTDOWNS and others going into SHUTDOWN?

Oh...I'VE been to ONE Twelve Step convention too many!

My wife and I joked recently about an Asperger's convention. A room full of people silently judging and freaking out about being judged but saying nothing.


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09 Nov 2010, 11:46 pm

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My wife and I joked recently about an Asperger's convention. A room full of people silently judging and freaking out about being judged but saying nothing.


such an event would constitute a giant personality filter, with the more sociable ones sticking around and blabbing while the less sociable ones getting back in their cars and going somewhere else.



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10 Nov 2010, 1:58 am

auntblabby wrote:
marshall wrote:
I'm in western washington. :)


what county? king? pierce? thurston? mason? pacific? grays harbor? jefferson? clallam? just curious 8)


I'm living right in Seattle. I'm just finishing as a graduate student at UW. I do enjoy getting out to see the countryside though. I'm not really a city person. I like driving way the heck away from the city when I can afford the gas money.



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10 Nov 2010, 2:13 am

marshall wrote:
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marshall wrote:
I'm in western washington. :)


what county? king? pierce? thurston? mason? pacific? grays harbor? jefferson? clallam? just curious 8)


I'm living right in Seattle. I'm just finishing as a graduate student at UW. I do enjoy getting out to see the countryside though. I'm not really a city person. I like driving way the heck away from the city when I can afford the gas money.


you are doing very well, both as a graduate student as well as navigating city life, especially in the dense area of seattle that you go to school in. i am the opposite, i need the isolation and simplicity of the hooterville life. each time somebody drives me to seattle so i can go to uwajimayas, i swoon when i see the traffic and i marvel how anybody finds a parking space. and the cost of living up north? breathtaking. what i paid for my tin can wouldn't even pay for a permanent parking spot up there. but do consider mason country when you get a wild hare to go exploring the countryside, because it's pretty here. a ferry ride might be the best way to get close to here though, from where you live.
out of curiosity, what is your line [of potential work]?



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10 Nov 2010, 4:13 am

meeting other aspies is fun, but challenging, you know your both socially ret*d so the mutual understanding helps a lot, but than again your both socially ret*d :P bin there done that would do it again,


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10 Nov 2010, 8:51 am

Hyperlexian, emlion, Pistonhead, nthach, spongy...I can't think of any others right now but I could come back later. :D



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10 Nov 2010, 2:50 pm

aamj50 wrote:
Surreal wrote:
And WHAT shall we DO at this auspicious occasion?

Will there be WORKSHOPS on various topics?

Opening/Closing ceremonies?

A Hospitality Suite?

A banquet?

How would we have a convention of people who often feel LOST or SPOOKED in CROWDS with some having MELTDOWNS and others going into SHUTDOWN?

Oh...I'VE been to ONE Twelve Step convention too many!

My wife and I joked recently about an Asperger's convention. A room full of people silently judging and freaking out about being judged but saying nothing.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

In the ballroom of the Millennium Hotel no less!! !!



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10 Nov 2010, 3:02 pm

I'd not heard of Benny and Joon before but lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNZX4FAYdw



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10 Nov 2010, 3:42 pm

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Am I the only one who thinks a WrongPlanet convention would be a good idea?

I could go for that, and I would like to meet anyone interested in meeting me!


OMG, but it would have to be several regional events, I'm Newcastle, UK.



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11 Nov 2010, 3:08 am

auntblabby wrote:
marshall wrote:
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marshall wrote:
I'm in western washington. :)


what county? king? pierce? thurston? mason? pacific? grays harbor? jefferson? clallam? just curious 8)


I'm living right in Seattle. I'm just finishing as a graduate student at UW. I do enjoy getting out to see the countryside though. I'm not really a city person. I like driving way the heck away from the city when I can afford the gas money.


you are doing very well, both as a graduate student as well as navigating city life, especially in the dense area of seattle that you go to school in. i am the opposite, i need the isolation and simplicity of the hooterville life. each time somebody drives me to seattle so i can go to uwajimayas, i swoon when i see the traffic and i marvel how anybody finds a parking space. and the cost of living up north? breathtaking. what i paid for my tin can wouldn't even pay for a permanent parking spot up there. but do consider mason country when you get a wild hare to go exploring the countryside, because it's pretty here. a ferry ride might be the best way to get close to here though, from where you live.
out of curiosity, what is your line [of potential work]?

Well, I've been surviving. I'll be glad to be done in another month. I'm feeling pretty deflated now. My father (retired) is actually living with me right now. In the fall we went hiking together a lot. I don't know how anyone can survive the winter here living alone. How are you holding up? Do you have family in this state?



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11 Nov 2010, 10:09 pm

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Well, I've been surviving. I'll be glad to be done in another month. I'm feeling pretty deflated now. My father (retired) is actually living with me right now. In the fall we went hiking together a lot. I don't know how anyone can survive the winter here living alone. How are you holding up? Do you have family in this state?


what job are you going to be able to get? just curious as to what the result of all that education actually is. it is all magnitudes of echelons above my reality. it is good that you get along well with your father and are helping him. i am sure he is or should be thankful for having a good son. the hiking is hard to do where i live, because of all the people with guns who mistake me for a game animal. i will NOT dress up like a god-damned orange traffic cone, just because they are too careless to insure a proper [read: non-human game animal] target! anyways, i have an older sister who lives in shelton, about a 45 minute drive from my woodsy abode. i house-sit for her often. i have an older black sheep brother whom nobody knows where he is at any given time, and an oldest brother who lives in kingman, arizona in the baking heat and nasty goatheads underfoot. the winters here make me briefly but repeatedly consider moving closer to him. but then i remember that state's mean politics and am reminded to just say no. this non-conformist would fit in down there about as well as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. as long as my heater still works [and i have enough fundage for the alarming heating bill], i stay above freezing. but the flooring is poorly insulated and i have to wear insulated slippers in the wintertime. the older i get, the colder my feets get. my cramped tin can is so crowded that i can't imagine having any partner living with me in the mess.