{"id":3948,"date":"2022-07-03T23:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10124\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2022-07-03T23:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T06:04:22","slug":"steps-to-finding-friendship-love-and-social-success-in-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"Steps to Finding Friendship, Love and Social Success in Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">There is much conflicting advice for autistic people about how to socialize, make friends and start dating. It&#8217;s confusing!  At <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">S<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">N<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">D<\/span><\/strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>&#8216;s<\/strong> <\/mark><strong>July 16<\/strong> program, dating and friendship coach <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Jeremy Hamburgh<\/mark><\/strong> will show how to simplify the process with a simple, 5-step strategy that you can use to have more seamless conversations and social interactions that can lead to friendship, dates, and relationships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#b16a00\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Zoom meeting URL and password will be sent as the date approaches. If you are not on our email list, click <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=45b240034405a1b47948a710d&amp;id=a3632f7d57\">here<\/a>. <em>No registration is necessary.<\/em><\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Jeremy-Hamburgh.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Jeremy Hamburgh\" class=\"wp-image-3949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Jeremy-Hamburgh.jpg 280w, https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Jeremy-Hamburgh-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jeremy Hamburgh<\/strong> is a dating and friendship coach who empowers autistic adults to make friends, build relationships, start dating and find love. He has over 12 years of experience coaching autistic adults into the social lives they want and deserve. He has collaborated with a variety of organizations on dating and friendship skills workshops, and he thoroughly enjoys that &#8220;aha moment&#8221; when a young adult or their parent realizes that a social life is possible. Jeremy&#8217;s main passion is his first-of-its-kind program, <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Social Life 360,<\/mark><\/strong> a program that trains his clients to confidently meet new people in new places, while at the same time providing them and their families with a supporting and loving community that makes them feel embraced. You can learn more about the Social Life 360 program at <a href=\"https:\/\/mybestsociallife.com\">MyBestSocialLife.com<\/a>. (Jeremy offers a no-cost 90-minute Strategy Session to every family whose young adult wants to have a more vibrant social life. He can be contacted about this at <a href=\"mailto:Jeremy@MyBestSocialLife.com\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:Jeremy@MyBestSocialLife.com\">Jeremy@MyBestSocialLife.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Who: <\/b>Adults on the autism spectrum, families, mentors and professionals all welcome. For more information, please contact: info@aascend.org<br><strong>When:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sat July 16, 10am \u2013 11am (approx.) <\/strong><\/span><br><strong>Where: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Online via Zoom.<\/span><\/strong> <em>URL and password will be emailed<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much conflicting advice for autistic people about how to socialize, make friends and start dating. It&#8217;s confusing! At AASCEND&#8216;s July 16 program, dating and friendship coach Jeremy Hamburgh will show how to simplify the process with a simple, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=3948\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}