Does anyone meet up in Birmingham U.K anymore?

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I tried to join recently and they refused me saying i need to know a member so they cant have changed that much!

life can scar a man.

No need to let it affect other people though.

All I can say is that I managed to join fine, I've been to a couple of meetups, and everyone's been nice.

Ben's also managed to sign up, and I assume he didn't know anyone.

I think that Ben was sent by a friend he met here who as on AV. Pity we can't all make friends with a "top dog" like ben did. lol, it is only sarcasm.

i am pretty social although don't have a nice car!

but seriously, there wasn't really anything to disaprove of: i put in my name, user name and other basic details. i hadn't filled in the profile description, I just thought this could be filled in later like any other site

I think that filling in the profile description helps. They want to check you're an actual genuine aspie, and not some troll or something. I do agree that they can be a little over cautious, but I can see why.
They wouldn't care whether you had a car or not. Most of the people I've met from the site don't have cars.

Yeah, they seem intent on killing the place off or making it as low maintainence as possible.

it's kinda stupid really but the people who originally created the site have got lives they want to get on with and none of them can be arsed with managing it anymore so I don't really blame them. Just look at Alex who owns this site, needs some work done on it but he's a young lad with a life to get on with when push comes to shove and its not like were subscribers paying for a service here.

There was a time when the site was known as "AspieTalk" and it actually became quite a popular forum for awhile but was too overwhelming for the people who ran it as it was beginning to feel like a full time job for some of them.

I do think there is a great niche waiting to be filled for a decent UK based asperger site IMO

I know how it is, wanting something isn't quite the same as wanting to run it. Until you're really ready for it, leading something is just completely stressful. I've just recently started really knuckling down and leading a pvp guild in world of warcraft and it's so so much hassle, the only that's really given me the push and is keeping me going where I couldn't before was being in badly run guilds for literally years. Seeing it done baldly for so long has just built up and built up and now I can't take it any more so I've put my foot down and I'm putting things together properly ( funny thing is, I'm actually thriving off it now I've finally got past that point of being sick of seeing things done badly).

Maybe one day you'll get someone that gets so pissed off with seeing it badly run that we'll get someone put their foot down and you'll finally get someone that's worthy to lead. Unforgiven gets my vote ;) .

I managed to become registered on AspieVillage eventually, and had a look around...reading a few threads, I did get the impression that the Birmingham meetups hadn't been attended very well recently. However, from reading this thread it seems like a few people would be interested in a get-together of some kind, and I'd be up for organising something like meeting in town somewhere for a coffee, maybe, if enough people were up for it?


Tom

They'd been off for about five months due to the guy who organises it not organising, and nobody else wanting to take charge. They're getting back on track now though.

My impression of Aspie Village is that the people were nice if a little old. There doesn't seem to be many twentysomethings there!

well I would come to a birmingham meet up organised through wrongplanet but I wont go to one on aspievillage.

Yeah, I signed up once, made a few posts, but I didn't feel like I belonged there. All the threads were about UK politics.

I've not long become a member of this forum.
I'd be interested in meeting up with other members on here from in & around the Birmingham area ?? .

I noticed there's a meet-up thread for the London area , but no meets planned for Birmingham- 2nd largest city & central to UK ? I'm suprized.

I'm from the birmingham area aswell, but I have to psych myself up for weeks to put the recycling out and the thought of attending an actual real meetup feels me with fear and dread.

So thanks but no thanks, I'd only be sitting in the corner hoping it would end soon.

Just saw this pop up in the forums. I'm in Perry Barr and would be interested in meeting up also!