Aspies Getting Along With Other Aspies?

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It'd seem that Aspies would get along with other Asipies, but I'm not sure.
I know two aspies, one I _can't_ stand and one I get on with incredibly well with. The latter, mainly because we share the same interest, the former, mainly because she's plain annoying and I get the impression she thinks she can get away with anything she wants to because she has a TA sitting next to her(several people have said the same). There's another person who's Aspie in my class but I don't really know him and we all share the same TA(Teaching Assistant) and he doesn't act like her.
Is it just me, or would Aspies' hypersensitivity issues just bug the hell out of other Aspies if it was there was a world only with Aspies?
I don't know, I just thought it'd be interesting to discuss and find out other people's experiences with Aspies.
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I have three aspie friends I had to break ties with. One was a racist and the other two would sing children's songs loudly in restaurants. These people were all in their 30's.

If you go to an AS support group, you'll have more aspies to choose from to be friends. I have an AS BF. I still have a friend in NC, although I moved to OR, who is an aspie. I'm beginning the process of making friends here.

I mostly do. There have been some exceptions though.

There was the guy who used to show up at my screen printing workshop for the sole purpose of heckling me.

Also, there was the crazy aspie-ish lady who um...volunteered for us. She had the power to drive me to the brink of insanity. I am the type who only likes physical contact under certain circumstances...she liked to "pat" and hug and eeeeekkkk .
I am one who avoids eye contact. She liked to stare... ...and so on....she drove me nuts.

There are a few people on the spectrum I don't like, but I've made quite a few friends with autistic people and seem to be more social around other autistic people, so in my case (it may be different for other people) the answer would be a "yes."

still waiting to see an adult aspie...let ya know then...

i know a few people i assume are AS, at times it is very hard but as long as we dont get to close we get on fine...the space thing is a must though as otherwise i would not stand being around these people....

I've never met anyone with AS syndrome before i don't think i would get along with them i don't get along with people that well
anyway.

I used to have this romantic idea that I'd become instant friends with each Aspie I'd meet. But judging from the couple Aspies I became a bit closer to on here, I don't get along with Aspies better than NTs. I got the same sh***y treatment.

I can assure you there's as much in common, and as much difference and conflict, among Aspies, as among NT's.

A couple of reasons, off the top of my head, why Aspies might gel is because they might be interested in fairness and equality; and because there is a community of people with like experience, living as an Aspie.

A reason, off the top of my head, why they might conflict is that people on the spectrum can be at vastly different places on it and someone closer to neurotypicality might find it hard to understand an Aspie who is an extreme systemiser.

I've never meet anyone with AS as far as I can remember. I once was part of a group I had to go to at my local hospital but I don't know If the other kids there had AS or something else.

There have been aspies online I didn't like because they were jerks. They were the kind of people I knew in my childhood who were bullies.

I don't get along at all with all people I have met so far who have known autistic features or mild AS. Bullies, idiots... nothing I say will make it better. Those people couldn't stand that I wasn't the shiny non-disabled autistic person who possessed the opposite profile of strengths and weaknesses than them. It does seem to put some people off.

I knew this HFA-like guy throughout elementary school who was awesome and I think I may work together with a sweet kid who has some mild form of PDD-NOS or infantile autism. But these 2 I'm not so sure about.

I know some people peple with AS, My 2 best friends have it and I used to be friends with 1 or 2 others. One of the ASers I used to be friends with I didn't like as much as he was an attention seeker and he used to fake alot of it, he was also too blunt and rude for my liking. The other I just drifted apart from anyway.
I used to be friends with one until he left school, and I didn't even know he had AS until my best mate told me 2 years after I met that boy.
There is a boy at school who has it (it sounds like theres loads but there isn't) and I can't stand him he's annoying and swears at everyone and walks like the hulk, and looks like him.

Overall I have mostly got on with other aspies, but their are obviously exeptions, because just because someone has the same condition as you doesn't mean they will be wonderful people

When I was Dx'd nearly 2 years ago now, I was desperate to meet other aspies, as I thought ALL ASPIES would be just like me, and I would instantly feel at home on this planet.

However, as much as I feel really at home with others in the spectrum, I was soon to discover that there were very few aspies who had the ability to affirm and deeply listen in the way that I feel I am able to.

However, this lack of mutuality in this regard has not stopped me making friends with Aspies, and I am really lucky to know some lovely creative and interesting people with AS.

Chris

we are just as f****d up as the general population.