Stoek wrote:
More specifically some of us, find this environment extremely lacking in contrast to aspie aspie interaction.
Again I do not doubt for a second that the interest is lacking, nor is the feasibility of a aspie quarter that hard to imagine. Granted it's no surprise that this idea isn't obvious as autism awareness was dramatically underwhelming just a decade ago.
WP was designed to serve as an
online gathering site for Aspies, particularly after the 2004(?) loss of the previous "major" online community for Aspies around the world. For that, we should thank Alex's hard work over the last 9 years.
I'm not sure it's an issue of offline groups being infeasable, so much as that we've only partiarlly resolved one issue, which is that of communication. Many of our posters, particularly those in Canada and the US, live in geographical regions with higher costs of transportation. To have a sustainable offline group, you (at least) need communication(s) and transportation.
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