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Peace

Peace

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I tried to start an Aspergers support group in my area. I took out an ad in a couple of local papers and waited to gauge the response, I received only one. I also had one of the people closest to me, flip out on me (again), for exhibiting Aspergers like characteristics. They expected that since they told me once how a certain social interaction should go, that I would just automatically do it that way from now on.
Why can't I just be accepted. And Loved.
 
Aspies are a minority. A lot of people with aspergers are undiagnosed. Not that many people even read newspaper ads. Add that all together, and it's unlikely many aspies even read the ad. Still a little sad.

It's sad that you are not accepted. But you only need one person to accept you. I hope that person is in your future.
 
Yes Peace. It is hard for some people to accept you for who you are. Always be who you are no matter what. Since I am new here you were very nice to me and I appreciate it. That is great that you did try to start a support group in your area. Try again:smug:
 
Right now I feel like the only people who are accepting me are the psychiatrists I'm seeing at GOSH, but I'm only seeing them fortnightly, so other than them it's no one.
 
In one day, I received another reply to my add, met a family with autism and Aspergers, and made a great connection locally for resources.
What a difference a day can make.
 
You might have better luck starting a meetup group on Meetup.com although there is a relatively small monthly fee to maintain it, there's a lot of specialised and very successful groups on there for just about anything within reason. I don't know exactly where you live however, so you'll have to see how popular meetup.com is your area, E.g. search for other groups in your area and see how many there is Etc. to see if you think it's worth trying or not.

Another way to start is to look for and contact any autistic spectrum disorder charity organisations that cover your area and see if they can help promote a new local group for you (I live in the UK, so I unfortunately don't know any in the USA). They may even help provide additional support and advice.
 
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That is a very good initiative that you tried to do, Peace. I've been thinking of starting some sort of group myself in my community because I too, feel lonely and don't have many close friends that I can hang out with and be myself with, and I'm glad that someone reached out to you. Just continue the search and I'm sure you'll find some good friends eventually. It can be hard to find some really decent people to befriend and accept you when you live life with either Autism or Aspergers, but you must not give up my friend :)
 
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