Meeting people in your area

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Hey guys. I'm extremely fed up and i'm trying to find others like myself in my area. Only problem is, I don't know how. I've searched all over the internet for any info for any gatherings in my city for Aspies, but can't find a thing. I'm sort of getting depressed about it now, because I feel like i'm all on my own here. I just want to meet people that I can relate to. I feel like nobody I currently know in my life is able to do that.

Where are you from?
Try some generic forum where "most" go to.

I found and met someone using generic forum for my country, it wasn't AS only forum.

Have you contacted the autism centre in your area yet if you have one nearby? They should be able to direct you to other aspies, or they may even have groups through them.

I feel sort of the same way. I do go to the self-advocacy group in my city where there are only 4-6 people who go (I am the youngest, and the one next in age to me is more than a decade older). I do not mind meeting up with auties and aspies of all ages, but it would be nice to meet a few people closer to my age (and developmental age--as I am one of the lower functioning people there, I think). I go to the biggest university this side of Montreal, yet sometimes I feel that I am the only one on the spectrum who goes there. Statistically, there should be 118 people on the spectrum there...if 1 in 110 are on the spectrum. Even if there are far less, since many on the spectrum do not pursue higher education....say just 10....that would still be enough for a group of spectrumites to meet up for support and friendship. Nevertheless, I remain alone. You know, up until I began going to the advocacy group, I have never knowingly met another person on the spectrum before. Being an autie can be lonely in more ways than one...

I've done endless searches online, there is nothing in my area or anywhere close enough for me to travel to.

Im in the same boat as you man, Ive never met another aspie person in my life and feel really lonely a lot of the time. Ive tried searching for aspergers groups online but the only things that come up in my area are groups for parents with aspergic children. Its seems after you reach a certain age theres no help for you round here. The closest social group Ive found for adult aspies is in the city (London), I dont drive and hate taking the tube so Im s**t out of luck it seems.