Gregory Brian Wood

BEFORE BEN HIRASUNA showed up for the first job interview of his life, he went for weeks at a time without leaving his parents’ home in Santa Monica. Outside, sun poured down; inside, he looked at the top of his forearm and noticed it was every bit as pale as its underside. To say Hirasuna is shy is to say the ocean is big — it captures nothing of the vastness of the feeling. He managed to attend college at Arizona State for just over a year but returned home for good in November 2017. For a few months, he took some classes at a local community college, but eventually his routine gave way to solitude at home. During the day, he slept; at night he rose to battle the enemy in futuristic cities and pastel landscapes on his PC, or tinkered on another monitor with any of the codes (Java, Perl, Rust, C++ and C#) he taught himself in high school. Finally, last November, his parents insisted that he get a job — any job, at the bakery down the street or at McDonald’s, if it came to read more

This is a great online group through this association. The group has been helpful. -Greg

New Support Group Registrations

Hi all,

As I mentioned yesterday in group, I am going to be running this 8 week group again after this current round ends. Simultaneously, we are going to start another online group, which will be run by a different facilitator at a different day/time. Otherwise, they will be the same (open to adults of all ages and genders).

When those two new rounds end in the Spring, we may decide to divide the groups by age. To be determined.

It’s been a pleasure having you all in the group and I’d happily welcome you back. If for whatever reason the other group sounds like the better option, feel free to sign up. Registration should be going out for both groups in the next couple weeks. I will again give you “first priority” to register before opening it up to everyone else.

Any questions, just let me know!

Thanks,

Kelly

Support Group “1”

Facilitated by me

Tuesdays 11-12:30 pm EST, March 12-April 30

Open to adults on the spectrum of all ages/genders

Support Group “2”

Facilitated by Jennifer DeSanctis-Narby

Mondays 7-8:30 pm EST, March 11-April 29

Open to adults on the spectrum of all ages/genders

Kelly Urban, MA, LMHC

she/her/hers

Coordinator of Adult Services

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