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Far North Queensland calling... ?

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arithmetic

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Hi :)
There are about 200 thousand people on Cape York. If there are 25 autists in every thousand, there are about 5000 autists in this wider area.
I asked at "Autism Connect" what facilities there are in my area and heard there is a group in Townsville just 4 hours drive away... ? The lady I spoke with would have liked me to start my own group, but I don't want to go back to Facebook.
Are there any other FNQ people here?
 
I know there's a couple of Queenslanders but I'm not sure about the far north.

Personally I think facebook is a very bad choice for these sorts of groups anyway. The way they are crosslinked to so much other social media just makes it far too public and attracts the wrong sort of attention. Anyone can search and discover people's posts in a forum like this too, but they have to search for it instead of it just showing up in their feeds.
 
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I know there's a couple of Queenslanders but I'm not sure about the far north.

Personally I think facebook is a very bad choice for these sorts of groups anyway. The way they are crosslinked to so much other social media just makes it far too public and attracts the wrong sort of attention. Anyone can search and discover people's posts in a forum like this too, but they have to search for it instead of it just showing up in their feeds.
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Ohh! I saw a reply :) and you know what I hoped to find. Silly me, I guess.
I lost my trust of the people I'd tried to be friends with on Facebook, and closed my account. I'm afraid to start again, especially with the idea of making new friends... "The Nasties" might find out I'm back, after these 5 years, and start hacking away at me again. (Ain't that what Zuckerberg wants, btw?)

I'm here. That'll do, for social media.
 
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