Published on 12, July, 2020
Basically there's not much in the way of adult support groups in the Liverpool/Wirral area so I resorted to setting my own one up.
I have started up all the social media for it and would really appreciate it if you guys took a look. The more interest I get online, the easier it will be for me to start a monthly meet up alternating between Liverpool and Wirral, look into funding etc. Our mission statement is here: https://www.facebook.com/merseysideautisticadults/posts/2235971603311792
Anyway, here are the social media links:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/merseysideautisticadults/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MerseyAutisticFacebook: https://facebook.com/merseysideautisticadults/
Email: merseysideautisticadults@gmail.com(Hopefully we will have an email newsletter running in the near future).
Just wanted to add my thanks for what your doing, meeting up and just talking to like minded people is such a good way of accepting there is nothing at all wrong with any of us, we see and feel things in a different way not a wrong one.
Good luck and I hope you get a meet going soon.
I am based more Oxfordshire area. Not looked to hard but found a regular meeting held in a pub during the quite times, and tea and coffee plentiful, no pressure to join in and apparently quite a few turn up.
where I am working right now we park beside a “ resource “ centre, most attending are with issues, they do crafts and such things,
I got talking to one who said it was the best thing she does, stating the years of councilling hasn’t helped only caused more issues, she was diagnosed bipolar when young, her son is diagnosed autistic,
I really think she is autistic with a wrong diagnosis, asked her many questions, ticked many boxes,,,I gave her this site and links to Tania marshals site and said said just pop in and read a few accounts from women about your age, it may give you some help understanding who you are. Hope she does.
That's great, thanks. It's good that aspies are helping to identify other aspies. A lot of GPs just don't have a clue. My friend did a medical orientated degree and she said the mental health section of it was very small.
I was talking to a psychology student recently who said they only get about half a day on Autism in their entire degree. To say I was shocked would be an understatement!
If I worked in medicine (particularly if it was mental health) then I would have to keep up with all the latest info on stuff like autism, I just couldn't help but do that. It is beyond me how some medical professionals stick to really out of date criteria and seem to think that is okay. In any job you have to continue learning. Lawyers for example can't just stick to law books from the 80s - things change.