Anyone in the UK feel like me!

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I actually think Nessa was treated rather harshly. Plenty of members on here have said far worse things and they weren't banned for a week. So racism isn't tolerated on this board, but other forms of bullying are? In the end it all falls under bullying.

But that's not relevant to my point (about socially phobic Aspies not wanting to travel long distances to meetups).

Population is not relevant to the distance it would take me to travel to get to, say, John O' Groats from, say, Melrose.

I live in Scotland, and it would be no use people trying to persuade me to go all the way up there to John O' Groats for a meetup, on the basis that "less people live in Scotland than in England."

How is that fact relevant to how far people can reasonably be expected to travel for a "local" meetup?

It isn't.

I'm not trying to start an argument about geography - just trying to point out that it would be unrealistic to announce a "Scotland" or "Wales" or Northern Ireland" WP meetup, and expect people who are spread out all over the place in those countries to be able to attend. (I'm assuming we're talking about having regular, weekly meetups, as opposed to a massive, one-off yearly event or something).

Do you see what I'm trying to say? Hope so.

Scotland:

Highlands, North East, Central, West, South East & South West.

Wales:

North, South.

England:

North East, North West, Yorkshire, East Midlands, West Midlands, East Anglia, London, South East, South West, Cornwall.

Those are good summaries, but...

*Face palm*

Poor old Northern Ireland gets forgotten again!



It appears that most British people on the mainland think that NI doesn't even exist.

I don't know enough about NI geography to suggest a breakdown of areas for possible meet-ups there. Does anyone want to have a go and complete the list above by adding NI? Or should I just use Google and educate myself a wee bit?

NI has its Counties.. e.g. Antrim, Down.

i agree. ive been waiting to remark on that all day. she didnt say anything racist and didnt insult anyone. absolute nonsense. give someone a minor responsibility and the first thing they try to do is stifle free speech.

considering this is a forum for people who have AS it amazes me how closed minded people are to it. symptom: aloofness symptom: seeing the world different to others symptom: dont know when to keep quiet.

harshly treated is an understatement. everything she said was bang on target.

I know it does, but you do not appear to have been listing counties in the list above. Otherwise, you would have listed Scottish counties such as Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Selkirkshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburshire, Fife....well, I won't list them all. There are 32 Scottish counties in all, and 15 regions. (Edit: by the way, I'm not trying to be a show-off know-it-all; I had to Google those facts, and didn't know them myself)! A region is not the same thing as a county, and it's not the same thing as a constituent country, either.

Why is it that English people list their own regions carefully but just gloss over Scotland and Wales, and ignore NI as though it doesn't even exist?

This is a rhetorical question. I am not really asking anyone to answer me. I'm used to it by now. Just somebody do the list properly!

Tequila?

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I googled NI for regions and it only gave counties, unlike Scotland, Wales and England that gave the regions I posted.

*edit*

Actually I found this also: Leinster, Ulster, Munster and Connacht.

Don't really know much about NI which is why I omitted it initially.

*edit*

Actually scrap that, those were for the whole of Ireland.

Oh, I see. I beg your pardon, then. I didn't know. I don't know much about it either, but I do know that it exists, and I expect the people who live there find it annoying that the UK people on the mainland seem to forget about them all the time, which is why I was pointing out that it exists.

Good point, we should remember the Isle of White, Isle of Man too.. Not sure about Guernsey.

Oh dear, I don't think I know about all those places. Anyway, I asked about having some sub-forums for meetups in the "site suggestions" thread, and a mod told me that if people want to organise meetups, they just post a thread in the "Members Only" section.

A rules reminder: Link to WP rules: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt73833.html

nessa238 was given a time-out so she could get to better understand them.

Yes.

I suspect I have high-functioning, mild AS.

The doctor referred me in April 2011. By autumn I was told he had referred me to the wrong department. Nothing was done to correct it. I got a letter in December about my first appointment in March-ish and ended up wasting time with the wrong person. They thought I was there for ADHD testing. Very annoying. I went to my doctor recently and told him this was a waste of time and I had been waiting for nothing. He told me he will refer me again to a psychologist (who would also help me with my anxiety issues, too). So, I'm waiting on that.

I've been messed around by unprofessional staff and the whole mess has made me wonder whether it's even worth it. What if I do get to see this psychologist and I end up being told I'm 'too mild' to have AS or anything else?? It puts me back at square one and will make me deeply, deeply unhappy and angry. On top of that I also have a mother who thinks I can "overcome" everything and just "think about going to some workshop or something."

I just need that diagnosis so I have that backup support. The whole reason I want it is because I'm a jobseeker. I've had miserable experiences socially at school and university, which made everything so much more uncomfortable and difficult. There's a strong possibility this will happen at the workplace, too. I've also been told I need that medical proof if I have a task I have massive difficulties with and need some kind of adjustments from my employer.