I went to an Asperger's meetup

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23 May 2014, 12:03 am

My teacher suggested it. Since she knows I hate the Asperger's label she didn't tell me it was an Asperger's group. Some of the people were okay, but there was this slightly annoying low functioning guy. I didn't really feel like I belonged, but I didn't have social anxiety because I don't care what Aspies think of me.

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23 May 2014, 12:12 am

how did the low functioning guy annoy you?

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23 May 2014, 12:59 am

I should point out the ASD people you meet IRL
are going be alot worst than the one's who post
on WP.

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23 May 2014, 1:08 am

billiscool wrote:

I should point out the ASD people you meet IRL
are going be alot worst than the one's who post
on WP.

It was pretty hard to have a conversation with them. They kept talking over each other. Some of them were okay for one on one conversations, but a lot of them talked too loud or were hard to understand. The leader was some woman who calls herself rainbow. She was basically a stereotypical cat lady.

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23 May 2014, 1:10 am

god bless her

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23 May 2014, 1:14 am

...I don't think ASD meetups are as awesome as one might think. I personally wouldn't go.

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23 May 2014, 1:14 am

DevilKisses wrote:

were there any cute girls or guys there? you going back.

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23 May 2014, 1:18 am

I went to an ASD group once and I felt completely normal compared to the kids there.

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23 May 2014, 1:19 am

I felt right at home for the first time in my life.

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23 May 2014, 1:25 am

desertnomad wrote:

I went to an ASD group once and I felt completely normal compared to the kids there.

I don't get it,why are WP members so much ''better''
than average ASD group members.
do mild,pretty,romantic successful ASD'ers avoid
asd groups? Do ASD group only attract the more
severe,the less successful,the loner,weird types?

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23 May 2014, 1:30 am

my only experience, is that the seattle group attracted a lot of high-functioning types, the group I belong to attracts people a lot like me.

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23 May 2014, 2:11 am

The first time, I felt like the normal one too. A few of the guys have a striking appearance/behaviour. Some have mentors, but they all look and talk like pretty much like everybody else. All in all, high functioning people with jobs and studies. (I´m the one who hasn´t succeeded in holding down a job).
The discussions make me think and realize a lot. I quite like those meetings.

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23 May 2014, 2:26 am

billiscool wrote:

DevilKisses wrote:

were there any cute girls or guys there? you going back.

There was a cute girl. I kind of got along with her and she seemed as normal as me, but I'll probably never be more than friends with her. I don't really want to date any aspies and she's probably straight anyways. None of the guys were good looking, some of the guys were quite low functioning. There was this one guy who seemed mentally handicapped. Some of the guys were okay at conversation, but they were way older. I went with my mom so no one could be creepy.

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23 May 2014, 3:45 am

That was horrible that you were tricked.

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23 May 2014, 3:51 am

billiscool wrote:

desertnomad wrote:

I went to an ASD group once and I felt completely normal compared to the kids there.

Not necessarily. It would make sense that some ASDers would prefer to spend time with people they already know. Yet there are also some who would like to meet people similar to themselves and share experiences. So you can't really expect everyone who attends an ASD group to only be the "weird" types. Also, you've got to remember that on WP, we can only read a person's thoughts in written form, which can be edited before they're submitted. Issues such as volume of voice, visual tics, and real-time conversational skills can't be extracted from posts (unless they specifically talk about them). So while WP members don't seem out of the ordinary on WP, they might come off differently in real life. Of course, this won't be true for all members.

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23 May 2014, 4:32 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:

That was horrible that you were tricked.

I kind of saw it coming. My mom and teacher know I hate that label. I pretty much knew it would be an Asperger's group when my teacher said it was group for "young adults with communication difficulties" and the leader wore a t-shirt that said "Aspergian" on it.

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