Who doesn't attend autism/AS-related activities at all?

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im satisfied with what i do online.i dont try to go and meet friends anyway,autistic or n.t

Not sure what you mean.
I was marching in Arizona and canvassing signature's for Steven's Law in my homestate.
This board.
I am also in a meet and greet type service that finds local matches fro playdates and hang out.
That is about it I guess.

Not sure what fits teh definition of "related activity"

just WP. live in kinda a small town with few support groups of any kind.

In my area they are mostly for children or support groups for parents with ASD children. The couple I have been to I was the only diagnosed person. This alone makes me disenfranchised. I have no tolerance for people that self diagnose medical and mental conditions. I fully endorse distrust in medical professionals, but they are trained and some can be decent. Worse is when they do it to their children. It seems to be the trend now to read an article, if you agree with it, that is you. Autism, glucose sensitive, meat intolerant, etc etc. I am lucky, I am high functioning, I purposely took psych classes that focused on understanding body language and social interactions to assist myself. The last time I was at an event I dropped my guard thinking I was around people similar to myself and they treated me worse than the average NT ever did. Many times the parents of ASD children have this us against the system mentality not understanding that the system is broken and can't fulfill their demands, you try to explain it to them and they attack you for not agreeing with them or daring to question them. In my experience ASD meet ups typically showcase the worse of the afflicted.

I'll rephrase it. A group geared to low functioning individuals has an entirely different focus.

My area has many support groups for autism. 60% is for children under 18 and their parents. The next chunk is for autistic adults who are either in supportive care or living with parents. Someone is their guardian to some degree. Next little chunk is for college students, and the last scrap is for adults on their own.

There is huge divide between the low functioning groups and a support group my husband goes to. The LF group focuses in on care giver support and the group being a social outing for the autistic person. They'll have special meetings on setting up trust funds, guardianship, what to look for in a supportive care place. Insurance issues.The bulk of the meeting information is for the care givers. Much like how a parent/child ASD support group runs.

The group my husband goes to does not deal with any of that at all. That group's focus is with work place and relationship issues. How to interact with people in authority. It's a lot more finessing soft social skills.

One isn't more superior over another. The pressing needs of a nonverbal 19 year old are very different from my husband's. It would be silly for that teen's parent to sit on on a group, where everyone is brainstorming of how to keep a marriage together or do you disclose at work, when your child will be lucky to work a non sheltered job.

My husband does go to the support group. He's not always thrilled about going. But being out and about, and seeing how other people handle issues has helped him.

Attending autism related activities doesn't mean you only have to attend autism-related activities. It also doesn't mean you have to only socialize with autistics. . .

I enjoy socializing with autistics but I definitely have tons of friends who are not autistic.

I wish there was one in my town, but oh well...

I've never attended any autism related activities before, besides psychological evaluations when I was really young. However, next month, my mom is making me go to these adult group therapy sessions to improve my speaking and social skills.

I wouldn't mind a meet up in England - but, I can't get up in the morning and I chain smoke and resent being requested to stop.

+1 to the 'adult in geographic area with nothing of that sort offline for adults' count.

I haven't done any of this stuff in years. The last time I did it outside of a mandatory class in a college program I was still in high school.

For the most part, I find being around other aspies absolutely miserable and it has a serious negative impact on my mood. Prolonged contact can trigger depressive episodes, so the idea of groups full of other aspies is terrifying to me. I've only met a handful of other aspies who I could stomach. Interestingly, almost all of them were female. Other male aspies are generally something I avoid as though they had ebola.

@Jacoby: Phoenix is huge, though. That's bizzare. I did a quick google search and a lot of it let to dead ends... I mean I found this but it looks like maybe the ones for ASD adults aren't around anymore. Still, I'd investigate this if I were you.

I met 2 people. One is probably in a group home and the other has a mom who practically runs their life. I was invited to the "autism meet up" by the mother of this guy who also said the other chick I met would be there too. Now I'm kinda wondering if this maybe a waste of time or not.

Long story short, I can't deal with folks that have more issues then me ...

Me When a Autism event near my state. I found out about it the day after the end of the sign up. I guess It's never happening. The problem really isn't travel for me though. I'd Probably just get nervous and run off anyway. Does anyone have any experience if my social anxiety will have effect in a Autistic event. They'll probably be NT Parents or as this guy on youtube calls them. "Primitive Sapiens" Probably shouldn't give the NT Hate group. Any ideas. I don't really hate them for what they are. They don't know any better. It's Pointless. They have advantages, We have advantages. Twitter is just Pointless, whenever I go on there I get in Arguements with Anti-Vaxxers. The only people who can overcome my Black and white thinking. No Matter how much logic I tell them one study showing something is better than millions of others. Which is one of the reasons I hate NTs in general. I better stop ranting, before this turns into a Coccu, Rage cutscene. We wouldn't want that to happen.

I come here and manage my blog. Online socializing is enough for me... I don't get out much other than work because I have no energy left after a 40 hour work week.

There really isn't anything for adults as far I can see, just parents and children it seems. It is a mammoth metropolitan area so it is hard not to feel discouraged and pessimistic about anywhere. I'm not from this state originally so perhaps there is something out there that isn't publicly accessible that I am missing I dunno.

The reason I don't attend such activities is because there are none where I live, where people are practically still stuck in the 1940's and we're lucky we even have indoor toilets.

And if they did have such events, it would probably be run only by NTs, I'd be the only adult on the spectrum attending the event, and I'd be ready to tell them what my feelings are about it in language as colorful as their disgusting puzzle ribbons.