Forming an Aspie Group

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I have only one friend and would love to meet other Aspies in the area, but the support group is for only the parents to go to and there is nothing for us younger lot. (well actually I am nearly 19 so I suppose I am not that young...)

http://gmu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210021049
PWAAAs is a Facebook Group I created. I have to created a group name for aspies, autistic people and other PDDs people for GMU. The title I came up with was Students with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome United aka SWAAASU. If you have a better name then reply to this post

To Alex: I need your help for SWAAASU website and group as well. Please assist me.
Jerry Holy

I am in Brisbane too Yep I have been to a parents group was very uncomfortable but at least it is likely that some of the parents might be ASD.

I often feel lonely. It is hard to connect with people when you feel so different from them. I think the only way I am going to have close friends is to find some AS people. I can do general chit chat with NT but it isn't very meaningful.

Anyway enough rambling Would love to get together some time

Any groups in North Texas/Southern Oklahoma?

Tim

I'm very happy to see this thread cause i am justly planning in starting a group here. There is a group in the big city (Montreal) but it's far from me (Blainville, 30 miles north of Mtl). There is an whole region here with nothing except kids' group or for parents. In french, it will be called "Groupe de Réunion pour Adultes Asperger des Laurentides - GRAAL" I'll keep you all informed about how it goes....

I'm slooooooowly gathering contacts,info & confidence to start an adults group on the Gold Coast.
It's like watching paint dry.
Met my 1st Aspy ever last week.For 20 glorius minutes we discussed insects,molluscs & David Attenborough movies.
He's 21 & I'm 40,but together it was like we were both 10 again,y'know?
I heard a guy coin a phrase-"an intense,almost pathological,social hunger" describing Asperger's people.
Walking away,I looked back,straight into Mark's eyes & saw that hunger.
I know it myself,though 40 years of solitude has dulled the pain.

Right on,Pattywack.
Why do I need to bother about a commitee?I plan on meeting at the local Library,jabbering like NT's for a couple of hours,then shouting(paying for) lunch at a cafe around the corner.

Purplespider & Dallascoyboys,pm me if you can get down to the Gold Coast anytime.

It's started ! !!

First meeting: september 14th

Join us on http://aspergers.meetup.com/306/?gj=sj5

My meeting's off to a dead stop!
http://aspergers.meetup.com/305/
2 Aspy's on the Gold Coast & they both PSVP'd NO.
Why sign on for something like that & then knock back the 1st opportunity?
Ah well.Guess I can shout lobster for lunch.Table for 1,as usual.
I don't think there's a single adult Aspy support group in Australia.

Nearest support group to me is in Fort Worth, 100 miles away.

Tim

I would like to go to a support group and have looked and found a few 'as friendship groups' for people my age.
but yeah its something i want to do. because at present i dont know anybody with as

i dont know anyone with AS i would really like to go to some group but this is sweden so i doubt there is any around here where i live. perhaps in the capital city but it takes hours to get there and costs lots.
also i doublt id dare even if it was possible. perhaps i could take some calming medicine and then try and force myself...
but im 14 so if there is any group i guess there will be one for little children and one for adults.
does anyone know where to look to find some group if there is one?

Nearest possible meetup for me is Grande Prairie, two and half hours away by car which i don't have. Or a 10 bus trip.
It would be nice to meet an aspie in person.

But thats two long of a bus ride.

Any around Nashville? Maybe on the Vandy campus?

I wish there was a Aspie Teen Group...I live in a big city, so there would be enough people, but I don't have the initative or energy to make it! (or time)

I go to a pub group in Bristol (United Kingdom) at BSB which has turned out to be very sucessful.

Since I joined in April 2000, I have organised very activities including meals out and a boat trip.

The group meets on the second Tuesday in the month.

wow

i love this thread

im currently on the "move" starting an aspie awareness

but honestly

i envy those coming from the west because most people are

open to the idea of understanding, accepting, respecting and trusting

people with autism/aspergers

btw

im from the fareast side of the globe