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UPDATE: We now have a sister community, aspergers_howto, that is part of celerest's project to write a book along the same lines. PLEASE CONTINUE TO POST ALL OF YOUR HOWTOS IN aspie_howto (this community). If you would like celerest to consider your howto for inclusion in her book, please add a line at the end saying "I authorize Celerest to use this howto in her book.", and post the howto in BOTH aspie_howto and aspergers_howto. celerest will not use your post without your permission, and will give you credit if she decides to use it in her book. For more information, see this post.

This is a community in which people with Asperger's syndrome or others who think in similar ways can explain things.

It's kind of hard to explain why I think there may be a need for a community like this, so I'll just give two examples:

1. The first time I wanted to order a pizza, there were a lot of things that I did not understand -- Am I supposed to introduce myself to the pizza delivery person? Am I expected to check the pizzas to make sure the pizza has the right toppings before I pay for it? How much am I supposed to tip? Am I supposed to go outside to meet the pizza delivery person, or do I let them into the house? What if they need to use the bathroom? My neurotypical friends thought I was making a huge deal out of nothing, but to me these were real questions that I had no answers to. Talking to other aspies online, I got answers instead of jokes.

2. An aspie friend of mine had had "doing laundry" explained to him several times, but did not understand "sorting into dark and light" because he wasn't sure where to draw the line between the two. When I told him to think of it as a spectrum/continuum of colors, and that only the lightest and darkest ends actually mattered, and that the stuff in the middle where you weren't sure which way to go didn't really matter (and should just go on whatever pile was smaller), he said that that made a lot more sense and that nobody had explained it that way before.

So here's a community where aspies can share information in a way that's formatted for our own brains and ways of thinking.

Members may contribute instructions on how to do things, or ask community members about things that they are not sure how to do. This is a community for questions/answers about practical things (which may or may not have a social aspect), but is NOT intended for discussing the specifics of your social life. "How do I ask somebody out on a date?" would be an excellent howto for this community, but a post describing a specific situation and asking whether or not it's acceptable to ask somebody out under those circumstances should not get its own write-up (it's probably acceptable as a comment in reply to a general write-up on "how to ask somebody out on a date" though -- or you could just ask an advice columnist).

If you want to discuss Asperger's syndrome in general, try the

asperger community.

Please try to use something that at least vaguely resembles proper spelling and punctuation/capitalization... you don't have to get every little thing right, but please do not use SMS abbreviations or 1337.

Please do not post an "introduction" or "hello" post when you join the community -- you can just jump right in with explanations or questions.

This is a moderated community, so your post will not show up immediately after you submit it. It will usually appear within 24 hours.

Have fun, and good luck ordering your pizza and sorting your laundry! (But don't do both at the same time...)

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