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Table of Contents

• In Brief - short & sweet
• Welcome - introductory chatter
• Visitor Guidelines - everybody read!
• #asperger participants - homepages of visitors
• Links - relevant and/or interesting sites
• Channel managers and op(erator)s - your friendly management team

In Brief

• The #asperger channel is ONLY for people who have Autism, Asperger syndrome or a related condition. If you are not on the autistic spectrum yourself, please join #autism instead.
  
  
• Please read the visitor guidelines before joining the channel. Joining constitutes agreement with these guidelines. Thanks. In case of problems with an op or visitor, please e-mail an explanation with log to irc-as-managers (at) lists.inlv.org and we'll try to help out.
  
  
• The channel resides on the Starlink-IRC IRC network (not Starlink). Use any IRC program to join us (here is a site with good IRC software info). This is by far the best option, but requires downloading and installing some software. (The channel is unlisted, so you have to type the channel name instead of choosing it from the channel list.)
  
  
• Using Firefox? Then install the ChatZilla add-on, restart Firefox, and then simply click this link to join us.
  
  
• You can also reach our channel via the Java chat server in Williamslake. Just enter your nickname, and connect.
  
  
• Nobody on channel? Don't give up, people do come here. Sometimes it's quiet, at other times it's busy. If you don't meet anybody, try visiting after 7pm GMT or around 11pm GMT. (What's that in your local time?)

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Welcome

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Visitor Guidelines

• Audience
  
  This support channel only welcomes people on the autistic spectrum. No official diagnosis is required; what counts is that you sincerely identify yourself as being autistic. We reserve the right to ban obvious imposters.
  
  
• First visit
  
  When you visit for the first time, an op will welcome you to the channel and ask you a few questions about yourself: whether you are autistic, why you think you are (if you have no official diagnosis), and just a few things to get to know you.
  
  Ops notify each other about new visitors to prevent you from being "interrogated" over and over again, so this should happen only once or twice. We do this to guard the channel's safety and not to make you uncomfortable; please understand. Your cooperation is asked and appreciated.
  
  
• RULES - everybody read!
  
  Because of significant and persistent problems, the institution of the following rules has been necessary. They are designed to protect everyone's freedom to enjoy and be comfortable in this channel.
  
  
  1. Please be respectful of other channels or persons. (Venting about a person or situation while still respecting them is okay. Attacking or bashing is not.) Flames are disallowed, as is bigotry (blatant racism, homophobia, NT bashing, religion-bashing, etc).
     
     
  2. This channel's first priority is support. Please try to be considerate of each other's feelings and areas of sensitivity. (Some topics, while okay for some people, may be offensive or hurtful to others, or may be inappropriate to discuss around younger channel visitors. We do not wish to prohibit any topic of conversation that is helpful to channel visitors, but please consider modifying, moving, or delaying the discussion if any channel visitors are made particularly uncomfortable by it, while they continue to be in the channel.)
     
     
  3. Idle limit: If you are going away from your computer for more than 12 hours, please leave the channel. No unattended logging.
     Note (added 8 Aug 2010): To determine how long you have been away for, ops look at your idle time as measured by the IRC server. Unfortunately the IRC server does not reset your idle time when you join the channel. This means that, if you have been idling on the server before joining the channel and then say nothing when you join, ops may get the wrong idea of your on-channel idle time, and perhaps kick you off too soon. You can prevent this by saying 'hi' to the channel when you join or by sending a private message to yourself. That will reset your idle time on the server. Thank you for your understanding.
     
     
  4. No excessive advertising or solicitation of other IRC channels. However, mentioning other channels and giving info about them in the context of an existing conversation is OK.
     
     
  5. All network-wide Starlink-IRC regulations apply. #asperger visitors who persistently make trouble in other channels on the network reflect badly upon #asperger and will be dealt with.
     
     
  6. Respect op decisions. Discuss problems or disagreements in private msg with an op, not in the channel. If you still have problems, please e-mail an explanation with log to irc-as-managers (at) lists.inlv.org and we'll try to help.
     
     
  7. Channel ops and managers do their best to maintain a positive and protected environment in which people feel safe and comfortable. Channel ops and managers reserve the right to deal with problems in the way they see fit. The judgement of the channel managers is final.

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#asperger participants:

• vander's homepage ^{(ly updated 14-Jan-2007)}
• ghost's homepage (archived)
• RichardG's homepage (archived)
• Aurtsy (Jennifer)'s homepage
• Juba's homepage
• AviN's homepage

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Links:

• Starlink-IRC
• Current server list: simple, no graphics or extended, with graphics
  
  
• Autty's #asperger page (outdated and archived)
  
  
• mIRC The most popular IRC client, for Windows
• Snak, Ircle IRC clients for the Macintosh
  
  
• Autism DSM-IV Description
• Asperger Syndrome DSM-IV Description
• Ooops Wrong Planet! Syndrome, with lots of Autism links
  
  
• Autism Network International
• Independent Living on the Autistic Spectrum, online support group
  
  
• Jim Sinclair: Don't Mourn for Us



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The #asperger channel managers:

• USA: CharlesR

Reach the channel managers collectively at: irc-as-managers (at) lists.inlv.org
(sorry, no e-mail link to deter spambots).

#asperger channel operators:

• Axel (Sweden), Carter (USA), Dogaroo (USA), Gerrit (Netherlands), Juba (Norway), phyre (USA), wileE (USA)

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