Are you going to Autscape 2011?

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I'm not sure if ouinon frequents WrongPlanet these days. Anyway, ouinon did organise an aspie meeting for WrongPlanet members. It took place in Avignon, in France, in 2009. Only eight of us went there, but it was great fun. I still have very nice memories of it. If you want to read about it, then check this thread:
*The European WP Meet in Central Southern France!*:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt91153.html
The first 24 pages of the thread deal with planning the event. reading them will show you how enthusiastic we all were and how meticulously we planned it. If you only want to read our post-meeting conclusions, then jump straight to page 25:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postxf91153-0-360.html
(post-meeting conclusions start about halfway through the page).
Overall, I think we all agreed it was quite a magical event. It was definitely surrealistic, I would say.
If you want to see photos from the Avignon meeting, then check this thread -
Photos of the WP meet in Avignon ! :
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt100317.html

If you would like to help organise an alternative aspie festival, or if you would like to meet very interesting aspies in numerous places in the UK, then please send me a pm.

Tashi delek

Thanks for the links, KenG. That would have been wonderful. I love France.


Organise a festival??? Great idea ... but, with half my race run, yet living with/adapting to this aspieness recognition for only a few months, I am barely keeping this one small life on an even keel, let alone channelling anyone else's wants/desires/critiques!!


Nothing I'd like more - except I'm on the Wrong [Side Of The] Planet.


I use 'namaste' because it's a yoga thing (or affectation, if you will). Helps me remember to stay calm. :/ [where is a 'rueful' emoticon when you need one?] Why do you use 'tashi delek' - or was it just a one-time-only friendly dig?*

[*I love that it's okay (I think & hope) to ask direct questions here, where in the 'real' world they might be thought rude - I say 'might', because these are only guesses on my part, relating as they do to a rule-set I've never really understood or subscribed to ... and I'm guessing I'm not alone here in that. ]

I hope this hasn't drifted too far off-topic. Apologies if it has. Still feeling my way around. So much on this site sparks off amazing trains of thought! (not to mention over-use of smilies)

It was just a one-time-only friendly dig. I thought it was a nice response to your "namaste", since both greetings come from neighbouring geographical areas and since both of them are common within hippie circles.

I would go to a great deal of trouble to attend a WP get-together in Andalucia/Morocco, as was mooted in 2009 after Avignon. Just give me plenty of notice - about two years should do it! - so I can save up ... even better if it happens in the Euro summer/Australian winter ...

My reasons for not going would be I can't afford it, it's too far away, and these days I'm lucky to even get out of the house.

Also I can't fly or drive a car so I'd have to take a bus if I went somewhere far.

Thanks for posting those links, KenG, it was lovely to look at the photos ( in Members Only ) again, and read the other thread from where we started posting after the meet. I wish that EnglishLulu had managed to post her photos though.

About Autscape and another possible reason why it didn't/doesn't grab me in the way that our Avignon meet-up did I wonder whether it has something to do with ( for the Avignon meet ) having to create it ourselves, ( and why the biggest part of Autscape 2009 for me was my own participation by giving a presentation ). I think that perhaps I invested more of myself in the Avignon meet, not only in organising it, etc but in making things happen when I got there, whereas at Autscape things *are*, precisely as you put it, HighPlateau, "handed to one on a plate"? I liked the way that I *didn't* know what was going to happen in Avignon.
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"When the day is done
Hope so much your race will be all run
Then you find you jumped the gun
Have to go back where you began
When the day is done."
(Nick Drake)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyv4qB5Aft4

I think so too, but you can always help Autscape's organising process, join various Autscape subcommittees, help organise informal afternoon/evening activities, bring various ideas to the Autscape-chat mailing list, etc.
(or just organise a post-Autscape excursion to Île-de-France, or whatever...)

I would have liked to go but I'm in NZ, and I wouldn't have been able to pay for a passport or a plane ticket. Is there anything like Autscape in NZ that I don't know about?

Maybe.
Autism Spectrum Kiwis will tell you if there is:
http://www.asknz.net/
(one of Autism Spectrum Kiwis' trustees lectured in a few Autscapes).

Over-use of smilies?
That is impossible here on WP, because autistics never smile!

(just joking, of course)