Online Community for diagnosed Autistic adults?

Firstly, you need to budget your time. New people can take up a lot of it.

Secondly you need to meet a lot of people, in a safe setting. I recommend assisting someone perhaps who does a weekly market or similar,it's ALWAYS good to have someone help run the stall.. I knew a guy who sodl weed not so much for teh profit but simply becasue he got to meet a lot of people, (And many adult weed smokers are regualr peopel TBF, but you do meet some poor quality people also). It did nto work out as well as he'd hoped, but I made at least one long term frend at the radio rallies and the computer fairs where I used to sell stuff.

Personally I think Amerantin ought to take a nice picture that retains it's sharpness when prnted at a3, get it printed and framed nicely and hawk it around some galleries... Good way to meet people a micro business/hobby is. Because we are all nervous as all get out, it really helps to have an agenda or goal to focus on, that isn't actually meeting people but (like, say, placing a picture in a gallery for sale) will require that you commuicate about something you want to achieve. Seriously, a friend of mine met hs wife though doing government surveys for money. Something repetitive that you can get comfortable with, and which you can do to many people and then move on. 

It's how the Big issue manages to give coempletely socially disenfranchised people a foothold in life. THEy ahev a repetitive thing that puts them in generally postive contact with many people, and soem of them make friends. There's a book called "A streetcat called Bob" which shows how that works.

Obviously my advice is valueless if you have a hunchback, leprosy, the swearing version of tourette's syndrome, smell bad (that's surprisingly important, you don't want to smell at all unless someone gets close then you want to smell clean and nice, that's totally important how you smell), or are literally unable to speak. 

Now that last one to be honest can only be overcome with practice, and for that I recommend you lot be a bit more willing to use "zoom" amongst yourselves. I've run a film night for over two years now, just to give people that opportunity to sit with a small mumber of peoepl liek you, watch a film and listen to whatever conversation occurs. maybe even say something yourself.. A simple comment about the film is obviously not going to be too taxing I'd have thought.

And NO-ONE is going to be nasty or sarky with you, at least not for as long as it takes me to detect it and mute their Mike. 

We get a variable amount of time after a film ends usually, where at least I am willing to talk to anyone who pipes up and there's always the guy who helps me to talk to if no one else wants to. You are more than happy to listen to us talk amongst ourselves and look for conversational openings. TRY and get the basics of adjusting your microphone and speech levels worked out before speaking, there's nothing worse than getting someone who has stuff to say, and not being able to hear them. Be aware that some laptop microphones are very directional and if you have one that is, you'll have to learn to point your head the right way when talking. I don't expect anyone to share video and it always surprises me when they do. 

I'll admit that I started out expecting it to get popular, I've got some films that we've now watched at least twice and still are looking forwards to seeing again. I would for example like to watch "The terminal", which although a shameless work of romantic fiction (loosely based around the life of a real person apparently) DOES reflect the reality of how simply bieng nice (and honest about your intentions) when you meet peoeple works. At east when I manage it, (not alwasy easy with Autism, I grant you).  

Firstly, you need to budget your time. New people can take up a lot of it.

Secondly you need to meet a lot of people, in a safe setting. I recommend assisting someone perhaps who does a weekly market or similar,it's ALWAYS good to have someone help run the stall.. I knew a guy who sodl weed not so much for teh profit but simply becasue he got to meet a lot of people, (And many adult weed smokers are regualr peopel TBF, but you do meet some poor quality people also). It did nto work out as well as he'd hoped, but I made at least one long term frend at the radio rallies and the computer fairs where I used to sell stuff.

Personally I think Amerantin ought to take a nice picture that retains it's sharpness when prnted at a3, get it printed and framed nicely and hawk it around some galleries... Good way to meet people a micro business/hobby is. Because we are all nervous as all get out, it really helps to have an agenda or goal to focus on, that isn't actually meeting people but (like, say, placing a picture in a gallery for sale) will require that you commuicate about something you want to achieve. Seriously, a friend of mine met hs wife though doing government surveys for money. Something repetitive that you can get comfortable with, and which you can do to many people and then move on. 

It's how the Big issue manages to give coempletely socially disenfranchised people a foothold in life. THEy ahev a repetitive thing that puts them in generally postive contact with many people, and soem of them make friends. There's a book called "A streetcat called Bob" which shows how that works.

Obviously my advice is valueless if you have a hunchback, leprosy, the swearing version of tourette's syndrome, smell bad (that's surprisingly important, you don't want to smell at all unless someone gets close then you want to smell clean and nice, that's totally important how you smell), or are literally unable to speak. 

Now that last one to be honest can only be overcome with practice, and for that I recommend you lot be a bit more willing to use "zoom" amongst yourselves. I've run a film night for over two years now, just to give people that opportunity to sit with a small mumber of peoepl liek you, watch a film and listen to whatever conversation occurs. maybe even say something yourself.. A simple comment about the film is obviously not going to be too taxing I'd have thought.

And NO-ONE is going to be nasty or sarky with you, at least not for as long as it takes me to detect it and mute their Mike. 

We get a variable amount of time after a film ends usually, where at least I am willing to talk to anyone who pipes up and there's always the guy who helps me to talk to if no one else wants to. You are more than happy to listen to us talk amongst ourselves and look for conversational openings. TRY and get the basics of adjusting your microphone and speech levels worked out before speaking, there's nothing worse than getting someone who has stuff to say, and not being able to hear them. Be aware that some laptop microphones are very directional and if you have one that is, you'll have to learn to point your head the right way when talking. I don't expect anyone to share video and it always surprises me when they do. 

I'll admit that I started out expecting it to get popular, I've got some films that we've now watched at least twice and still are looking forwards to seeing again. I would for example like to watch "The terminal", which although a shameless work of romantic fiction (loosely based around the life of a real person apparently) DOES reflect the reality of how simply bieng nice (and honest about your intentions) when you meet peoeple works. At east when I manage it, (not alwasy easy with Autism, I grant you).