Aspies of the world unite!

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Hopefully the thread title caught your attention. Anyways I just wanted to see what everyone thinks about starting an aspie commune. Now I don't mean the sick kind the hippes had going on. Rather I envision a small (and later large) community of people on the spectrum just living in the same general area. Of course it would have to be private and compund like so we could keep out all the...heathens we don't want in. What do you all think

I think there is already one is Silicon Valley

Besides, that means moving out of beloved room, home, city and local pub, so it's a problem

Dyslexics of the world, untie!

I have a group like that near me, it's nice, I have some friends there

Well we could change it to those with nuro. conditions. Your lucky in the area I am in I have yet to meet another person on the spectrum.

I haven't met any where I live either. It's hard to meet an Aspie. Since I've tried and failed to make Aspie friends online I go easier on my NT friends and realise they must be long suffering.

There's been a couple of threads about this in the past month. "Building Asperger's community: who we are; what will we become", I think, and another one a few days after it.

I'm am Anglo Canadian and I'm a proud aspie!

Well, Omer, There is also one in the Tel Aviv area, in Israel...
We have about 50,000 aspies around here? Don't we?
(see you next Thursday, mate...)

I've met a lot of kids and teens on the spectrum, but only 1-2 other adults. I think what makes it difficult is that we don't LOOK any different from anyone else...and for people my age (late twenties to early thirties), a lot of us were never diagnosed. So, even if I bring it up, most people my age have never HEARD of Asperger's unless they have a child on the spectrum.

I met one guy once, in passing, and just ended up thinking he was "weird" because I had spent so much time working on how (neuro)typical people act/communicate. He did everything "wrong" and it just frustrated me! I realized several days later what was going on. It just makes me all the more thankful for my friends and partner who put up with me and my weird tangents and poorly controlled talking volumes, among other things.

Also...I am really shy. If someone starts talking to me, I generally don't open right up. It's possible there are a lot more people near you than you realize.

Getting back to your original thought...I do not think I would like living in an "ethnic ghetto" of people on the spectrum. Stuff like that has a funny way of backfiring. It takes all kinds, and I think we work best together, not apart.