Just had my first aspergers social skill group meeting.

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14 Oct 2008, 8:11 pm

It was fun to get out. THe clients were signifigantly less functioning than i am. It is led by this cute girl i went to highschool with.



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14 Oct 2008, 8:18 pm

Good job! :thumright:



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14 Oct 2008, 8:19 pm

the group took too long to get to point of what they were trying to say and hardly got into the serious stuff i was looking for but it was fun.



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14 Oct 2008, 9:13 pm

Darn does this mean i can never ask her out?



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14 Oct 2008, 11:07 pm

hum. . . maybe it is just a coincidence, but I felt the other people in my first ASD support group was more impared than I was.

Now I wonder if everyone in that room felt that way!

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15 Oct 2008, 3:43 am

Interesting point. Went to one, kept leaving the room cuffufled, very odd situation. They were completing a general knowledge quiz which frustrated me, so much we could have discussed, so I just drew the beared man opposite. Was your meet purely to socialise?



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15 Oct 2008, 6:18 am

My worry is that, if I did go to such a group, I would feel out of place by feeling I knew more about that than others. I know very little about that, and some things I have read, etc... are ones I have NEVER seen to be true, but so many believe that they are true. STILL, there is room to know more than some others. At least NOW, I would know I am not alone. :lol:



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15 Oct 2008, 7:12 am

nightbender wrote:
the group took too long to get to point of what they were trying to say and hardly got into the serious stuff i was looking for but it was fun.


I've been going to a group for 1 1/2 years and can see that every meeting always ends up the same---> whatever is talked about takes too long to get to the point. It is highly frustrating and has me seriously considering starting up a GRASP group and leading it. I was told I'd make an excellent leader, but the thought of me leading a group terrifies me.

The group I'm in is more like a group therapy session than an aspie club. The leader is a NT psychologist and I think mostly everyone who regularly comes to the meetings are her clients. No one wants to talk with anyone else other than this counselor.


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