Aspie get together in London.

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I enjoyed the aspie get together in London south bank and I would do it again. Everyone there was appeared good socially and no one appeared weird. However we what we did share was an interest in science and very little interest in what happened on East-Enders.

Could an NT now say that I shouldn’t have went because I don’t have Aspergers. The thought that I could have missed out if I listen to other people makes me very angry.

Yeah, it was great wasnt it




NTs often have a 'medicalised' view of AS and so even if they appreciate that you are different they cant understand what we could gain from a meetup, or they might even see it as negative - when i told my dad i was planning to be more active in the aspie community he made a comparison to alcoholics hanging around with each other. I found this offensive, but its not really his fault as weve never really talked about it properly. He still sees AS as a weakness that needs to be fought, instead of adapted to iyswim.

It was just soo refreshing for me to have some aspie people to relate to.
The comparison with alcoholics is offensive and is offensive to alcoholics as well.
It is quite difficult to discuss our sensory and perceptual quirks with someone who does not experience them that means interacting with other spectrumites, something I really haven't done enough of.

Link to earlier thread same subject:
London meet up

lucky beans

I decided to tell my mother. She didn’t recommend it at all. I guess that’s down to bad press about the Internet.

I told my workmates too. I told them that no one weird or mad scientist types. Or one of them appeared to have any learning difficulties and that the girl in the other office could have aspergers easily.

yah i saw that dog somewhere else. way to go

Isnt that the first time youve talked to your workmates about AS? A sort of 'coming out' - what were their reactions like?

No not really. I have told them for quite a while but most of them are sceptic. Which is easy to be when they don't know what AS is.

Where are you guys gonna go to hang out? A nice private place would be the Cane Hill asylum... seems fitting!















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