Aspie House for Independant Living and Group Support

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I'd be interested, if I can bring my Doggie to live with me.

The way it is now, all utilities are included except electricity.

Dear Krex,
This information is so helpful. If there are requirements by the state, I am sure that I can be creative enough to alter things around so that they are not intrusive to aspies. Being an aspie myself, I understand completely what it is like to have to do things that are uncomfortable for me. Maybe I could even come up with helping aspies get a job by allowing them to pursue their own interests by owning their own DBA (business) and develop websites to market their ideas. I have experience with that. I want each person to have the flexibilty to do the things they love to do. Right there could be a loophole in the requirement for work.

The social worker that does those things would be ideal. I don't know yet how the insurance companies handle Aspergers.

I did find out from Micheal Carley, that Governor Pataki of New York did just sign that bill that treats AS and autism as a neurological disorder rather than a mental illness. This is good news in that, the insurance companies will not be able to discriminate against those on the spectrum for receiving the health care that they need. Just an FYI that I was happy about.

I haven't usually accepted pets.

I'll make an exception but only for aspies

I have 5 cats. Charlie, Marley, Tammy, Bambi, and Thumper. I have too many. But they are all a family and they all sleep together. When one is in another room, they look for each other. It's so sweet.

I don't want to get off the topic though.

No, it's not a crowded neighborhood.

sounds interesting, i couldn't deal with like city living

I've been in town a few times and was surprised to see it was so city like in the downtown area.
I don't remember the places I went, drove a truck and went to a million places.

what street you on and if it's a long one give by a nearby side street name so I can look to see if I was ever in that part of town.

just to let you know, I own a house and sure can't just run over there and say sure and do this deal in weeks My spare car is in a few hundred pieces. I put the crankshaft and camshaft in today and got pistons in a box.I'm a little tied up at the moment.

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Wow that's a great idea! Wish I could go there.

Denmark is such an intelligent nation!

I'd say do it, but don't make it an official group home because there's a ridiculous amount of scary regulations and crap that happen then. Just have it be, like roommates or housemates or something with an agreement. Be really creative, as in acknowledge the idea that a bunch of disabled people living in the same house doesn't have to be the same model as the stupid mental health or developmental systems want to make such a model. It doesn't have to be called a "group home" just because a bunch of you are living there. I live in senior/disabled housing and it is not a group home or a nursing home or anything else, it's just housing that is allocated for seniors and disabled.

It's because over here, we have people who believe very strongly in the concept of NIMBY...or Not In My Back Yard. Group/Halfway/Poor/any sort of social help homes seem to have a habit of bringing down property values and then there are the people who are just plain intolerant of others.



An aspie home idea is absolutely brilliant. If I lived near ya I would love to help with it...tis a shame I live in Indiana. Hmm, maybe I can start something like it here...

I think it's a good idea but I notice something that people often think along the lines when it comes to this.

Long time ago was on a mailing list where people were trying to come up with an "autistic community".

Now, I'd actually been on other lists where non-disabled people were talking about intentional communities, at the same time, of people with similar interests living near each other.

So I was totally shocked when I realized that on the list I was on, the autistic people were all thinking of something modeled after a group home or a hospital-like institution. They were all very surprised when I started coming up with ideas that had nothing to do with anywhere institution-like and more to do with the communities I'd been hearing all the non-disabled people talk about.

I think such things have potential to be stronger and better if it is not modeled after group homes or bigger institutions or hospitals or anything. Just housing for such-and-such kind of person, with such-and-such kind of agreements, and such, allows much more of some very good qualities that places controlled even slightly by those group home type rules or even the mentality of a group home, would lack.

I think I am back on track with this idea. I have a therapist that I met today that said she would help me make this house thing happen for aspies

That's good news Summer. I hope it works.

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I wouldn't mind sharing an aprtment with tons of other Aspies, jsut as long as I have a fixed locker to store my stuff in!

Thats a neat idea. I just moved into a group home, but i'm here for depression. I thought it would be really terrible at first,
but its not bad because everyone takes turn cooking and doing the chores, which I like because I hate cooking and hate chores.
The people here are okay, but sometimes loud and annoying. I think it would be nicer to be in an Aspie home with people who have similar habits and are a little more quiet.

It's in the works. It's gonna be a place called Aspieville. It's expanded into more of like an idea where we could have townhouses or apartments. Small town stores maybe run by ourselves with the assistance of a number therapists and social workers.

It was funny cuz they were unsure if we would even want something like that. The "porfessionals" started asking Aspies if it sounds neat. Overwhelming response of "Yes!"

So now they want tho see if they can make this happen for us.

My therapist need more ideas for what this little place really needs. I suggested an on call therapist 24/7 to assist with that unexpected anxiety that is so hard for family members to understand......and for confusion with social dilemmas. Of course there would would be more than one and they would work on rotating shifts (and be very well reimbursed for this demanding job). Employment opportunitites for us. Our choice to take medicine or not, etc.

Please post your ideas......this is for real...no joke!

She'd like some helpful feedback.

Thanks, Summer