Heidi80
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 Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:33 pm Post subject: What kind of asperger groups are there in your area? |
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| Are there any asperger support groups in your area? If there are, how often? Who (organisation) are they run by? Is there a neurotypical leader or do you do everything yourself? Are you happy with the support group in your area? Here in Helsinki, Finland, we have four support groups every month, one every weekend. They are run by an all-aspie organisation and all the group leaders are aspies themselves. We're a pretty tight-knit community, I've known some of these guys for over 10 years. We almost always go to a local pub toghether after the meetings and sometimes have activities between meetings.I 'm extreamly happy that I'm part of this community, because through it, I've found friends for life. |
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Radiofixr
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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There are a few-the one I mainly go to has an NT facillitator who is quite adept at running the group but the group decides activities and the general operation of the group another adult group I belong to meets near the Jersey shore which is a moderate drive to get to but its helpful and there are a few others run by aspies for aspies and other mental disabilities are not excluded in a few of them
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vermontsavant
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:14 am Post subject: |
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to my knowledge there are aspergers groups or even generic autism groups in southern vermont at all that i know of.
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League_Girl
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The ones I go to are ran by people on the spectrum. I know there are others but one of them is for parents of kids on the spectrum and there is another one that is for people who are in relationships with people on the spectrum. One of my groups, we have had this happen a couple of times where an NT show up not even realizing it's for autistic people only. I think they got our group confused with the other
One of them is a social group. We hang out at the IHOP or at Applebees and we talk and visit. The group was originally founded by an NT who formed it for his AS son so he can meet other aspies. But his wife who suspected she may have AS herself got cancer so the man didn't want to be the header of it anymore so another person in our group took over. Sometimes the new header will have parties at his home and he also created a new autism group and it's the gaming group and it's all over, It's at places where there are card and board games. But I don't go to them because I am more into video games than that one card game I don't remember the name of.
But the social group isn't just for people on the spectrum, it's also for people with learning issues or ADHD and sensory processing disorder and other issues. it's for NDs let's say and NTs are welcome in it too so it's a mixed group. But all of us have AS. Only ones I have seen there without it were the parents who came with their kids or partner. But since the original founder left, it's been just us most of the time, no NTs. But I only go to the Applebees one, not to IHOP. The IHOP one always had a lot more people there. Applebees has less. |
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CeciliaAnn
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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I occasionally go to the ones organized by the AANE.
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MagicMeerkat
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When I was a little kid, we lived so far out in the boondocks, you could not have a pizza delivered to that area. The only thing in the way of services or "help" was in the city...which was over an hour and a half away and the insurance was always changing on us. Most of the "therapies" were really just attempts to make me normal. My parents tried to get me into this really inclusive social skills group but the insurance wouldn't cover that either and it would have cost them over $4,000 out of pocket. I think my parents knew it would be a waste of money because if I didn't want to do something or change something about myself, I wouldn't. I think they knew I would purposely act up in order to get kicked out. Basicaly all I needed was for people to back off and let me be myself. We've moved to another small town, but not as far out as we used to be. You can even walk to the pizza place if you want. As far as I am aware, there isn't anything special for people with Asperger's or autism.
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Douglas_MacNeill
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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I've heard that the Autism Society of Edmonton and Area is offering a group for adults with Asperger's.
Maybe I should investigate it.... |
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None, and frankly I'm not a fan of hanging around with other Autistics in real life, essentially if it requires being supportive. Never works out.
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caramel0
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I assume there would have to be some in my area, but I'm too anxious to investigate them. anyone else feel like that? |
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MagicMeerkat
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| Nexus wrote: | | None, and frankly I'm not a fan of hanging around with other Autistics in real life, essentially if it requires being supportive. Never works out. |
^THIS^
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Heidi80
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| MagicMeerkat wrote: | | Nexus wrote: | | None, and frankly I'm not a fan of hanging around with other Autistics in real life, essentially if it requires being supportive. Never works out. |
^THIS^ |
It can work out if the participants are committed and if there's group rules and structures. |
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Guineapigged
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| I attend a local support group once a month. |
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ProfumoAffair
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I have autistic friends. You just gotta keep at making sure people agree, no matter how tough it is at the start. Works out as long as there are no egos in the group |
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modelmaker
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| Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:35 am Post subject: |
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I'd like to find out about such groups within my area (Birmingham UK) , but I'm not sure how to go about this 
Dave. |
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