Did anyone hear about http://grasp.org/?

[epath13]

Just wanted to know what you guys think about this organization (it's for adults and teens on the spectrum)?

GRASP

 

[kasmanaft08]

Never heard of it. Just briefly looked at it, seems like a good place to find meet-ups and support groups, so seems to be okay.
Wonder if I should make an account? Do you have one?

 

[epath13]

Never heard of it. Just briefly looked at it, seems like a good place to find meet-ups and support groups, so seems to be okay.
Wonder if I should make an account? Do you have one?

I had an account there since I got diagnosed but I didn't take time to look around and see what they are all about I get messages with news from them all the time. Now it looks like they're trying to get people to contact American Psychiatric Association about DSM-5 that's why I've gone to their website again.

I had to register again though, so I'm thinking about looking around a little more now. What I found promising is that most of the people who work there and on their board have to be on the spectrum, even thought it might be a little discriminatory but they have NTs as well so, I guess it's fine other organizations who claim to know "everything" about Autism don't have any people on the spectrum at all...

I was just wondering if anybody knew about it more than I did

 

[BruceCM]

Not heard anything of it before, joined them & will let you know how I get on!

 

[WildCat]

Seems like an awesome idea, but looking at the map there appears to be no support in the area I live (Dallas/Fort Worth).

I've been looking for groups in this area, particularily close to where I live, but I've found nothing.

 

[BruceCM]

Being in England, there definitely isn't any local grasp group but then it probably wouldn't be any better, for me, than the one we do have, anyway. Online tends to work better, as far as it goes.

 

[Droopy]

Had a brief look around and it seems like an interesting organization but unfortunately only operates in the US/Canada.

 

[BruceCM]

They do various Yahoo groups, by the way, as well as the main site. Needs some people who have been to an offline group to comment on those.

 

[epath13]

They do various Yahoo groups, by the way, as well as the main site. Needs some people who have been to an offline group to comment on those.

I'm going to check it out... I've been even thinking about organizing my own grasp group in the area, but don't want to make any plans right now, I'm not very good at it. I've got ideas but my track record shows that most of my ideas remain in embryonic state. That's why I've got a life coach but he ended up being more of a priest for a person with no religion rather than a kick ass trainer... ok, no more whining, I still believe I'll get there one day

 

[BruceCM]

Never had a 'life coach' & no likelihood of getting one, so I've pretty much no idea what they're supposed to do or how. I've tended to find 'positive' gurus or whatever you'd call them to be far more 'religious' than Christians, although I got on a lot better with those when I was an atheist than since becomming one myself. If somebody's basically appealing to 'faith', 'belief' or whatever, it always made more sense for 'religious' people to do so than supposed agnostics & atheists. They tend not to call it 'faith', since they restrict that to 'religious belief' but all faith, as a word, means is trust & believe. The problem being that you can't simply trust & believe absolutely anything & everything, though. That seems not to be blatantly obvious to most people I've met, however, whatever their belief system (everybody does have one of those, sorry, btw). If we're going to discuss 'trust & believe', it's got to be trusting something/ someone (or God) & it's got to be believing some things but hardly everything, which'd be impossible. (although most people manage to actively promote mutually exclusive 'truths' easily enough, I have to assume that's due to honestly not seeing it that way).