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Mw99
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 Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject: Are there any MENSA members here? I have a question for you |
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Do you know if MENSA meetings are "aspie-friendly"? Do you think the average aspie would feel comfortable attending a MENSA meeting?
I know it's hard to answer without generalizing, so if you want to limit your answer to your own personal experience, that's fine with me. |
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juliekitty
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I was lucky enough to join Mensa at 14. Had a much richer social life because of it than I would have if I'd been dependent on school.
Aspie heaven, I'm thinking. |
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the2death5of6pathos
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I am as curious as the OP and am interested in what you said julie.
Is it as elitist as I fear it is? I don't want to be a part of that, if so. |
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juliekitty
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Hell no. Smart people who like to party. At least that's what my chapter was like. |
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Mw99
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| juliekitty wrote: | | Hell no. Smart people who like to party. At least that's what my chapter was like. |
Yeah, but, we aspies don't exactly "look" and "behave" smart. What if the other members don't like us? Just because they are smart doesn't mean they have to like us... |
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2ukenkerl
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| juliekitty wrote: | | Hell no. Smart people who like to party. At least that's what my chapter was like. |
What chapter was that? From what I hear, YOU WERE LUCKY! |
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juliekitty
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Mw99 wrote: | | What if the other members don't like us? |
Kind of hard to control or predict.
| Mw99 wrote: | | Just because they are smart doesn't mean they have to like us... |
Seems it would make it more likely, but you're right. |
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juliekitty
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| 2ukenkerl wrote: | | What chapter was that? |
Oh, in Eastern Canada somewheres |
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LostInSpace
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I wouldn't know, because I've never attended any meetings. I enjoy reading the magazine though. My mom wants me to look into local meetings because she wants me to find a social group here. |
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jjstar
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: Re: Are there any MENSA members here? I have a question for |
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| Mw99 wrote: | Do you know if MENSA meetings are "aspie-friendly"? Do you think the average aspie would feel comfortable attending a MENSA meeting?
I know it's hard to answer without generalizing, so if you want to limit your answer to your own personal experience, that's fine with me. |
Yeah. I believe so.
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Jellybean
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I am a dummy in most areas so definitely not mensa level, however my step dad is in Mensa and he has AS (suspected). He doesn't go to the meetings but he does get the magazine. I hate to say it but a lot of the non Aspie Mensa members appear to be bigoted and arrogent so I am not sure whether it would be a good environment.
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AnnabelLee
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:00 am Post subject: Re: Are there any MENSA members here? I have a question for |
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| Mw99 wrote: | Do you know if MENSA meetings are "aspie-friendly"? Do you think the average aspie would feel comfortable attending a MENSA meeting?
I know it's hard to answer without generalizing, so if you want to limit your answer to your own personal experience, that's fine with me. |
I dropped out. Maybe it's where I am, but the ones in it just wanted to show each other up with their intelliegence and I didn't feel like I fit in at all.
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LadyMacbeth
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| Jellybean wrote: | | I hate to say it but a lot of the non Aspie Mensa members appear to be bigoted and arrogent so I am not sure whether it would be a good environment. |
Heh. So are a lot of Aspies. 
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eyebguileu
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| I just recently tested and was accepted into Mensa. I've only been to a few get together, but I think at least one other member I've met is definitely an Aspie. I haven't noticed any bigoted or arrogant people, but I think people in Mensa come in all flavors, just like the regular population. Some people are just jerks. |
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2ukenkerl
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| LadyMacbeth wrote: | | Jellybean wrote: | | I hate to say it but a lot of the non Aspie Mensa members appear to be bigoted and arrogent so I am not sure whether it would be a good environment. |
Heh. So are a lot of Aspies. |
You're right about that!  But I DO cut people slack if they are good enough to WARRANT the arrogant attitude. That is true even if they are arrogant towards ME! Some people are just arrogant for arrogance sake. THOSE people might as well be blithering idiots for what I care. If someone is VERY good with physics, and only physics, and acts arrogant there, FINE! If they start acting arrogant towards me about electronics, or computers, that is another thing. Likewise, I will defer to them on various things dealing with physics. |
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