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Last edited by smudge on 25 Aug 2011, 9:16 am, edited 3 times in total.

Uhm...

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Of all the Aspies I see here, it seems like the Londoners are the only ones who are actually getting something together.

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Last edited by smudge on 25 Aug 2011, 8:42 am, edited 1 time in total.

Welcome to the club. Last time I had a genuine intelligent conversation with someone else was a very, very long time ago. Most people are just interested in "how's the weather?", "how's life?", "have you heard of <random popular but totally pointless trivia>?" or the likes...

Actually, scrap that. Last time I had a genuinely intelligent conversation was with my motorcycle driving instructor. That says a lot about the average member of society, if a driving instructor can be more interesting than the majority of people.


People can be like that. It's probably just a mixture of shyness and "omg it'z the interwebz"-phobia. There seems to be a monthly meet-up (which I keep meaning to attend, and every time some bizarre circumstances cause me to fail my driving test. Meetings aren't the best way to get to know people, as you rightly said, but it's still something.


I'd drop by and say hi, but there's two barriers in the way:
- Congestion charge/Train fares: Not paying that much just to get into a city. I'll do that once I have a bike that can bypass the congestion charge.
- Uni starts again very soon

Mind you, though, I've never met any other aspies either. Met some would-be aspies, with who I got on really well, but not through the internet or this site or anywhere, they were just on the same uni course. The internet is as much a godsend for communication as a curse for friendship - it creates incredible barriers where there shouldn't be that many.

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Last edited by smudge on 25 Aug 2011, 8:42 am, edited 1 time in total.

I'm ready to have a chat with you, but you're a soft southern shandy-drinking girlie, aren't you?

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Last edited by smudge on 25 Aug 2011, 8:43 am, edited 1 time in total.

Same, and to be honest with you, London is not that far away either. If there wasn't the congestion charge and its consequences (to cut a long story short, First great western knows that most commuters are from Reading or Oxford. guess what? train tickets from those places to London are about triple the price compared to other, similarly distant locations), I'd be inclined to travel to London a lot more. Mind you, fingers crossed, within 2 weeks I might be able to finally say g'bye to trains....Assuming the weather doesn't screw me over again.

Face to face conversations are better than just text/voice, up to a certain point: (NT) people seem to assume that body language is a given, and there always seems to be some sort of miscomprehension somewhere down the line (although, that's probably due to the fact that english isn't my mother tongue). Beyond that, though, face-to-face conversation > text/audio any time of the week.


...How? I mean, that's a good 200 miles. best I ever got was Bristol-London for £12.50 (worst I ever got was Bristol-London for £175, and that wasn't even first class. Emergency bookings are awesome, thankfully I wasn't the one picking up the bill for that one )

If you want, though, when I've actually earned the right to ride a bike into london, I could drop by and say hi. Or if you're ever around Oxford, feel free to drop by and say hi.

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Last edited by smudge on 25 Aug 2011, 8:43 am, edited 1 time in total.

I didn't really have the time to get a taxi. Long story short, I absolutely had to be in France the next day, and there were only 2 eurostar train places available, one of which was much too late. So I didn't really have a choice on that - had to take a national train to Waterloo (the good ol' days before it disappeared to St Pancras) at peak time on a friday, booked the evening before. In other words: ouch.

I'll bear in mind in the future that booking 3 months in advance gets you the highest discount. Pretty surprised that they can discount it that much, though. (The railcard is a set fee, isn't it?)


Get ready for confusion. I live in Bristol during the year, as I study there. When I'm not studying, I'm in Oxford with my mother. However, I actually (according to my passport and to the cover of my passport) live in France. It'd be a bit long to write all that in the box

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London is the place in England.

Is there anyone else in Portsmouth?

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Last edited by smudge on 25 Aug 2011, 8:44 am, edited 1 time in total.

hey all.

wandering about planet wrong again killing some time.

simononono (however many ono's you add) portsmouth uk here too!

great to see i'm not the only one.

how are you finding things? recently diagnosed here (about march or somewhen)

R

Hello fellow Portsmousian

I am okay thanks (if that was directed at me?)

I was diagnosed when I was 9

Lebanese aspies are the best.

There are loads of us here, and we do a beach party every weekend.