An Adult Aspy/Parent Real Life Solutions Group

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My son's college is probably giving me the go ahead to start a group for aspies and parents to figure out together how to create good situations for our adult children's present and future, whether it's housing, jobs or satisfying friendships.

It's not a typical support group. I get mad when I hear the term "support group." It's a real life solutions group. We have to solve real life long-range problems, together, parents, adult kids, aspies with stories about what went right and what went wrong, brainstorming, working on common solutions together, having fun. I haven't lead anything before except accidentally. Suggestions?

I know my aspy son will probably hang around the group and listen because I'd be there but he'll be playing his DS and quietly processing what he hears.

I don't have any specific suggestions, but I like your idea of a constructive real-life solutions group, as opposed to a traditional "support" group. I wouldn't want to join a support group, but what you described sounds appealing. Simply talking about problems can be helpful, but creating solutions is a lot more beneficial.

I feel like I don't have the luxury to sit around in a support group, griping about life. I'm getting older and I still have wonderful but very vulnerable kids. All I want to do for the rest of my life is to help them and those around them so they all have each other.

Either that, or recruit the geekiest aspies I can find to put my brain into a cyborg so I won't age. Then I can always be around for my kids.