Autism Expressed 🗣️ Belmont
Details
Join us in a calm and structured environment and share with us about your autistic experience while enjoying something nice treats from the Dome.
This is a timed sharing event with prompt questions to help you capture your thoughts. There is no obligation to share and you are welcome to just listen. We ask you to not comment or ask questions during the time that others are speaking.
We are In the the private room with the folding doors next to the elevated section within the Dome, I will put a SAGE sign up for visibility. When you order tell the cashier we are in the private room, our booking starts at 600pm but I’m usually early.
-=Timeline=-
1000access venue
1010 Meeting begins,
1150 meeting ends
1200 leave room
-=Event Topic=-
2: Friendships and Relationships
Building social connections can be hard for those on the spectrum. Perhaps we worry about social blind spots or not being able to live up to neurotypical expectations. Maybe we have not been exposed to or understood healthy modelling around relationships. We may feel anxious about our abilities to discern if people are good for us, and we may struggle with boundaries. Relationships are healing and wonderful. We urge patience in building up confidence and trust, it takes time to change if we have spent so long being guarded.
Do you feel you have had healthy models of relating?
Do you have social blind spots that cause you anxiety?
Are you able to trust and be vulnerable, or are you self-protective?
Do you have a good balance with social time and alone time?
Do you worry about being needy or inconvenient due to your autism?
5: Acceptance and identification
It can be hard to accept that you have limits, that despite your wants and efforts you get overloaded, overwhelmed, and err. It takes humility to stop causing yourself distress and accept that you are autistic. Sometimes it’s hard to understand why we do (or don’t do) certain things. We may not realise something is autistic behaviour and believe it to be normal. It can be liberating to understand why you react in certain ways. We are more capable and content when we live with acceptance, than we are when we live with denial.
Is it hard for you to accept your limits?
Do you set good limits and boundaries for yourself?
or do you push too hard and expect too much?
Autism will limit you, but what are your autistic strengths?
Do you feel at peace with yourself?
Hope to see you there
-== About SAGE ==-
SAGE is a social group for people who identify as being on the autistic spectrum. You do not need a formal diagnosis to come along to events and support people are welcome.
Our core values are respect, acceptance, and community, and by holding to these values we aim to create a friendly and safe place for members to relate to others and have some fun.
New members are always welcome and we understand that it can take courage to attend events if you don’t get out often. Feel free to message event hosts for details or assurance. We want to meet you. We want all our events be psychological safe spaces and do not tolerate aggressive or inappropriate behavior.
SAGE is entirely volunteer operated and was established in February 2020. If you would like to support SAGE donations are welcome at: