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Old 01-18-2007, 04:54 PM
Lara Lara is offline
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sen, the conference in DC in 1998 was just super. There were many, many adults there and everyone had so much fun. I don't remember sleeping much and I remember drinking way too much coffee for my own good. I've heard about the conferences since then and have heard the same thing you've written. I don't think anything could beat that one in 1998. It was at a time when people were finding the net and finding each other. I guess it was like a revelation of sorts.

There used to be a couple of good sites online run by young adults. Wendy Faulkner and "inetd" come to mind. They had a website called TS is Fun lol. I don't think it's online anymore, but it had a lot of helpful information and direction on it. I'm not sure about the guy from Canada. Trying to think of his name... Life's a Twitch is the site... I'll go look up his name, it's embarrassing I can't remember it. I think there's good adult stuff there too. Same with the TS Foundation of Canada. I know they have a reasonably busy adult forum, but it's been a long time since I checked it out. TSFC always seemed to have a lot going for adults, even in their conferences.

TSA Washington State always had a very good number of adults involved in different ways. Not sure if it's still like that today, but certainly was for some years between 1997 and maybe 2000. For some reason I always thought you were in the North East, but your location states Northwest, so if you're in Wash state, maybe contact someone on the board there. Bernadette might be able to help you out. She's a gem.
http://www.tourette.net/wa/

You've probably seen all this before but you might find something of use...

OK. I remember now. Duncan McKinlay http://www.lifesatwitch.com/home.html

TSFC http://www.tourette.ca/

edited again: just scanned TSA WA site, and they don't seem to mention any adult meetings anymore. I know they used to though.

One thought I have about support group meetings, is that it's great if there's a mix of adults with TS and adults without TS who have children with TS and also adults with TS who also have children with TS.

gosh I think I confused myself a few times writing that!!!

It seems to me to be a great way of interacting and learning from each other. The TSA Wash. meetings that I attended were great like that because there were a number of young adult volunteers who spent time with the children just mucking about and having fun which their parents might be off watching a video or listening to informational address. The kids loved it and so did the adults who were spending time with them.

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