Setting up a drop in for adults who are on the spectrum

I know exactly how you feel Muckworm.

I have Asperger's, and spend much of my time alone, lonely, and depressed. I too have a great Mum (and Dad, and Sister) but they're over 100miles away (and my parent are now both retired, and I too know that someday they will no longer be around to help me, and my Sister has a family of her own).

I have tried attending a couple of local social groups - one is for people over 18 anywhere on the spectrum, the other is mainly for recently diagnosed adults, like myself - the first I find utterly depressing, and even more stressfull than a group of NTs! The second is much better, but both groups only meet once a month and neither has led to anything even remotely like any kind of social relationship beyond the group meetings.

I too have found there seems to be lots of support for children, and carers, and virtually nothing for adults. Well, unless you also have a learning disability (which I don't).

So, to address the OP's question: I would simply like somewhere to go, where I know I will be understood, where there is likely to be other people like me, and for that to be available not monthly, or weekly, but daily, because I can't just turn off my Asperger's for most of the week/month and switch it back on when there's a group to go to - I have to live with it every day.

I know exactly how you feel Muckworm.

I have Asperger's, and spend much of my time alone, lonely, and depressed. I too have a great Mum (and Dad, and Sister) but they're over 100miles away (and my parent are now both retired, and I too know that someday they will no longer be around to help me, and my Sister has a family of her own).

I have tried attending a couple of local social groups - one is for people over 18 anywhere on the spectrum, the other is mainly for recently diagnosed adults, like myself - the first I find utterly depressing, and even more stressfull than a group of NTs! The second is much better, but both groups only meet once a month and neither has led to anything even remotely like any kind of social relationship beyond the group meetings.

I too have found there seems to be lots of support for children, and carers, and virtually nothing for adults. Well, unless you also have a learning disability (which I don't).

So, to address the OP's question: I would simply like somewhere to go, where I know I will be understood, where there is likely to be other people like me, and for that to be available not monthly, or weekly, but daily, because I can't just turn off my Asperger's for most of the week/month and switch it back on when there's a group to go to - I have to live with it every day.