Autistic in NYC

Resources and new ideas for the autistic adult community in the New York City metro area.

Archive of updates to Autistic in NYC, late 2021

Below are old updates that used to appear on the front page.

Below are updates that were made in late 2021. (Below the table of contents is a link to older updates.)

For older updates to this website, see Archive of updates from early 2021 and earlier.

Online chat meetings (text-based) during December 2021

:  During December, the below-listed online text-based chat meetings will be led by members of the Autistic Peer Leadership Group. To view the meeting details (including a link to our chatroom), you must first join our Meetup.com group (and be logged in to Meetup.com) if you have not done so already.

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Hopefully forthcoming women's support group

:  I hope soon to launch a support group (via text-based chat, until we can meet in-person) for autistic and simmilarly neurodivergent women (18+). Trans / non-binary / marginalized genders welcome. Autism self-dx OK.

If interested, please contact me to let me know what days and times would be possible/convenient for you, and then correspond with me for a bit to tell me a little about yourself and to discuss your and my thoughts about what you and II would want a support group for autistic women to be like, and our thoughts about the autistic community more generally.

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Online chat meetings (text-based) during November 2021

:  During November, the below-listed online text-based chat meetings will be led by members of the Autistic Peer Leadership Group. To view the meeting details (including a link to our chatroom), you must first join our Meetup.com group (and be logged in to Meetup.com) if you have not done so already.

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Online chat meetings (text-based) during October 2021

:  During October, the below-listed online text-based chat meetings will be led by members of the Autistic Peer Leadership Group. To view the meeting details (including a link to our chatroom), you must first join our Meetup.com group (and be logged in to Meetup.com) if you have not done so already.

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Tutorials on conflict resolution

:  A collection of tutorials on conflict resolution has been added to this website. More tutorials on de-escalation (often a necessary precursor to conflict resolution) will be added to that page later.

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Online chat meetings (text-based) during September 2021

:  During September, the below-listed online text-based chat meetings will be led by members of the Autistic Peer Leadership Group. To view the meeting details (including a link to our chatroom), you must first join our Meetup.com group (and be logged in to Meetup.com) if you have not done so already.

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Online chat meetings (text-based) during August 2021

:  During August, the below-listed online text-based chat meetings will be led by members of the Autistic Peer Leadership Group. To view the meeting details (including a link to our chatroom), you must first join our Meetup.com group (and be logged in to Meetup.com) if you have not done so already.

August, 2021:

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Still waiting for pandemic to end...

:  Seems we're back to full indoor mask mandates, due to the "delta variant." So it doesn't look like we can safely meet in-person during the next two months, alas.

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"Nonviolent Communication" (NVC) tutorial list added

July 7, 2021:  A list of tutorials on "Nonviolent Communication" (NVC) has been added.

I've tentatively put it in the section on "Autistic-friendly social skills," but it should probably go elsewhere eventually, because it's not actually something most autistic people can learn easily. I recommend it more for trusted NT friends and family members of autistic people than for autistic people ourselves, most of whom I think would probably be better off learning other styles of assertiveness and active listening.

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Online chat meetings (text-based) during July 2021

June 29, 2021:  During July, the below-listed online text-based chat meetings will be led by members of the Autistic Peer Leadership Group. To view the meeting details (including a link to our chatroom), you must first join our Meetup.com group (and be logged in to Meetup.com) if you have not done so already.

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