21 Female, being pushed into joining by my pushy mother :)

Hello and welcome to the forum! I’m a 39 year old woman with 3 daughters (22, 5 and 2). Are you on Facebook? There are a number of ‘closed’ or ‘private’ women only Facebook groups for women with autism/Aspergers. These might be a better way for you to make friends and also find other autistic women your own age that live near you. This is how I started my social group that I run locally for autistic women, probably about half of my members came from one such group.

Hi, Thank you for this - please can you tell  me how I would go about finding groups on Facebook? Finding some friends locally would be good - though a bit scary to begin with x

Hi, as well as the groups that Bagpuss7 has helpfully listed, some others are:

-British Women and Non binary Autistics - ASD ASCs and Aspergers 

-Autistic Women in the UK

-Creative Aspie Women (I don’t think this is UK based but it is good if you make any craft and want to show it off to your fellow Aspies :-))

- Asperger Syndrome Awareness (not specific to the uk and open to all genders and parents as well as Aspies BUT it does have a very large following)

I think I belong to far too many Facebook groups

All these groups can be found using the search function at the top of your Facebook home page. 
They frequently have posts asking where in the UK everyone is from and it is common to see meet ups arranged and details of ‘unofficial’ social groups such as my own group, shared. Good luck!

Hi, as well as the groups that Bagpuss7 has helpfully listed, some others are:

-British Women and Non binary Autistics - ASD ASCs and Aspergers 

-Autistic Women in the UK

-Creative Aspie Women (I don’t think this is UK based but it is good if you make any craft and want to show it off to your fellow Aspies :-))

- Asperger Syndrome Awareness (not specific to the uk and open to all genders and parents as well as Aspies BUT it does have a very large following)

I think I belong to far too many Facebook groups

All these groups can be found using the search function at the top of your Facebook home page. 
They frequently have posts asking where in the UK everyone is from and it is common to see meet ups arranged and details of ‘unofficial’ social groups such as my own group, shared. Good luck!