Taking a Chance

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hartzofspace
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24 Sep 2007, 7:19 pm

I am planning to attend a Meet-up in my town. There didn't seem to be any for Aspies, but more slanted towards Social Anxiety and Shyness. While I suffer from neither, I've decided to give it a shot. At worse, I will have wasted an evening (when I could be sitting at home on WP ). At best, maybe it will be at least entertaining. It is so hard to leave my cave and socialize! Wish me luck!

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24 Sep 2007, 7:44 pm

I wish you the best of luck!

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24 Sep 2007, 7:48 pm

hartzofspace wrote:

). At best, maybe it will be at least entertaining. It is so hard to leave my cave and socialize! Wish me luck!

I never leave the bat cave unless its urgent (ie going to the bathroom/eating) :lol:

Or unless I have to :roll:

Hope you have fun at your new group

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24 Sep 2007, 7:48 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

I wish you the best of luck!

Tim

Thanks Tim.

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24 Sep 2007, 8:38 pm

Good luck...hope it turns out to be a good evening for you.

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24 Sep 2007, 8:39 pm

Best of luck!

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24 Sep 2007, 8:59 pm

HEY! I want to wish you Luck also!

Let us know how it goes.

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24 Sep 2007, 9:07 pm

I really hope it brings some good things.

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24 Sep 2007, 9:15 pm

will there at least be popcorn?

Good luck!

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24 Sep 2007, 10:24 pm

Even if it's a disaster, it would be an education. I hope you have a great time.

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25 Sep 2007, 2:02 am

Well, I just got an e-mail from one of the other members of the meet-up. He started raving about how pretty my real name is, and then proceeded to describe how a woman with this name might look (describing a raving beauty of course). Now, I am feeling like I shouldn't go. What a build up. While I am no raving beauty, I hate it that someone is so focused on looks already. He wrote a full page of fiction about a character he'd given my name to, with "to be continued. See you tomorrow." I didn't want this "Dating" aspect to be there. Doesn't take much to chase me back into my cave, LOL! :roll:

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25 Sep 2007, 9:58 am

Perhaps you should email him back and explain that, although he seems like a very friendly person, you really want the opportunity to just visit at your own pace. It would be a really nice thing if he would let you introduce yourself to the group and slowly meet people there in a way that makes you feel comfortable.
If he is pushy and won't leave you alone as you would like, perhaps there is a group leader you can discuss this with (unless he is the group leader).

Other than that, yeah, I'd say that his behaviour right now seems to be too aggressive for your comfort level.

Do you have contact with anyone else connected with the group? It would be nice if you did, so you could bring this up.
Maybe he's like this with everyone... one of his idiosyncrasies.

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26 Sep 2007, 12:00 am

Well, I let the group leader know about it. The guy never showed up, and I'm relieved.

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26 Sep 2007, 12:02 am

hartzofspace wrote:

Well, I let the group leader know about it. The guy never showed up, and I'm relieved.

Sorry, I'm a little dense, I know :jester:

, but did you show up? :wink:

If so, how did it go.
What happened at the meeting?

Thanks

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26 Sep 2007, 2:40 am

that guy is obviously very needy and looking for romance (and i dont think he'll get it anytime soon)

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26 Sep 2007, 11:00 am

wsmac wrote:

hartzofspace wrote:

Well, I let the group leader know about it. The guy never showed up, and I'm relieved.

Sorry, I'm a little dense, I know :jester:

, but did you show up? :wink:

If so, how did it go.
What happened at the meeting?

Thanks

I reported on the meet-up in a new topic:http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=44421

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