Well the first story is Sophist. Who technically is a member even though she hasn't been back in ages. I was driving across the USA and stopped at her town to meet her for breakfast (or was it lunch? It doesn't matter.) I'd seen a photo of her but she didn't know what I looked like, so I told her what I usually tell people: I'll wear hideously bright orange, you won't be able to miss me. So I perched on the railing outside her college cafeteria and waited for her to come by.
She talks. A lot. Which was made worse by the fact that I was on edge and therefore barely talking at all. So it was hard to focus on what she was saying. I'm not sure I was very good company, because I was too busy watching her to open my mouth and give any interesting opinions of my own.
We talked about WrongPlanet, at first, since we were both mods at the time. LOL, meeting in IRL for the first time and what do we do? Fill each other in on what's been happening online since we last touched the internet. And then we talked psychology and spectrum issues. She told me about a little autistic boy she had worked with, and whether it was better for autistics to help autistics because they understood the issues. She'd almost gotten fired from this job because whenever the very NT supervisor was around, she froze up and became incompetent, trying to follow the official rules of the type of therapy she was doing. But whenever the supervisor left, she broke most of the rules and as a result had the parents saying she had helped this boy more than anyone else he'd worked with.
I can't remember much about the rest of the conversation, but it was mostly psychology, which is the main interest the two of us have in common.
