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littlebopeep
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21 Dec 2007, 3:15 pm

...movement?



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21 Dec 2007, 3:18 pm

The internet is the only way that so many of us can communicate with one another, so I would say yes...



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21 Dec 2007, 3:18 pm

Yes, absolutely. When my parents first told me I had AS I felt quite upset and ashamed about that. When I started looking AS/autism up on the Internet a year later, I started to feel more comfortable and proud in identifying myself as someone on the autistic spectrum. It was the writing and attitudes of other autistic people that allowed me to accept my AS.



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21 Dec 2007, 3:39 pm

Ohh ya, definatly.


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21 Dec 2007, 3:42 pm

Yes, very much so.

I was shocked when I found out I fit the diagnostic criteria at first.


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21 Dec 2007, 3:47 pm

I felt I was missing the company of people like me until I started hanging out here on WP.


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21 Dec 2007, 3:56 pm

I think it's helping us get together and stuff.

But there was already the beginnings of such a thing being done through writing to each other in snailmail letters and newsletters and getting together at conferences and so forth, before the Internet got so popular.


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21 Dec 2007, 5:00 pm

Yes!!

And places like WP are the leading lights.


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