MyAOG
Your free AOG community space for connection, conversation, groups, and low-pressure ways to spend time together.
MyAOG is Autism On the Go’s members-only online community for autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled adults, along with the family members, supporters, allies, and community partners who stand with them. It gives you different ways to connect — from simply sharing space in Virtual PPZ to one-to-one peer conversations, member-to-member connection, forums, messages, and community groups.
There is no right way to use MyAOG
You can talk a lot, mostly read, spend time quietly around other people, connect one-to-one, or simply use the parts that are useful to you. Nothing here expects a certain amount of you.
What can I do in MyAOG?
Six things live inside MyAOG today. You can use one of them, all of them, or none of them.
Member-to-member connection
MyCelium Network
Choose whether you want other MyAOG members to be able to find you for ordinary community connection. You can be Open to connections, Not participating, or Taking a break — and change your choice whenever you want.
One-to-one peer conversation
Peer Connect
Have a one-to-one conversation with a volunteer peer who brings autistic or neurodivergent lived experience, listening, and human connection.
Peer Connect is peer conversation, not therapy or professional care.
Sharing space
Virtual PPZ
Spend time around other people without needing to keep a conversation going. Work on something, play, create, chat, or simply be there.
Talking directly
Messages and Group Chat
Talk privately with another member, or join a shared conversation when that feels right. Replying is never urgent, and you can leave a conversation whenever you like.
In your own time
Forums
Start a conversation, ask a question, respond when you want, or just read along. Nothing in the forums happens live, so you can come back days later and pick the thread up.
Your inbox, your rules
Notifications
Choose whether you want optional email reminders for private messages, community activity, or upcoming events.
Notifications are optional, start switched off, and can be changed whenever you want.
Connection when you want it
MyCelium is MyAOG’s optional member-to-member discovery layer. It lets members choose whether they want to be visible to other members who are looking for connection.
- Open to connections — you may appear in Community Connections.
- Not participating — you do not appear.
- Taking a break — you are temporarily hidden.
Nothing happens automatically, and being open to connection never means you owe anyone a reply. You can change your choice at any time, and you can be part of MyAOG without ever turning it on.
Two different ways to connect
Neither is better than the other. They serve different needs, and you can use both.
Ordinary member-to-member connection
MyCelium
Find other members who have chosen to be open to hearing from people, and reach out in your own way and your own time.
A one-to-one conversation with a volunteer peer
Peer Connect
Browse Peer Connectors inside MyAOG and arrange a conversation with someone whose lived experience or conversation style feels relevant.
Sometimes connection can simply mean sharing space
The Parallel Play Zone is AOG’s calm virtual lounge, and it is open to members whenever you want it. Move between rooms, adjust your avatar, work on something, play, create, listen, draw, chat if you feel like it, or simply be around other people. Conversation is optional, and you can come and go without explaining.
The Virtual PPZ meetup
Alongside the always-open space, AOG hosts a regular Virtual PPZ meetup on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays. The meetup is a scheduled time when people plan to be there together — the PPZ itself stays open to members the rest of the time.
Entering the PPZ needs a free MyAOG account, which is how the space stays community-focused rather than fully public.
Built for different ways of participating
- You do not have to talk to belong.
- You do not have to answer every message.
- You can take part asynchronously, hours or days later.
- You can take breaks, and come back.
- You control whether you are discoverable through MyCelium.
- You choose your notification settings.
- You can use quiet spaces like Virtual PPZ.
Stay informed without having to keep up
MyAOG can send you three optional emails, and you decide about each one separately:
- an email when someone sends you a private message;
- a daily MyAOG roundup of community activity;
- a weekly email about upcoming events.
These are optional. You choose what, if anything, you want to receive, and you can change your mind at any time.
Why an account?
MyAOG keeps community features inside a member-based space rather than making profiles, conversations, and directories fully public. That is what lets people show up with less pressure and less masking.
Some program information stays public — like the pages explaining Peer Connect and the PPZ. Member profiles, Community Connections, Peer Connector booking links, messages, forums, and other community activity stay inside MyAOG, behind login.
Who can join?
MyAOG is for adults. You are welcome to create a free MyAOG account if you are 18 or over and you identify as, connect with, or support any of these communities:
- autistic people;
- neurodivergent people;
- people with disabilities;
- supporters, family members, allies, and community partners.
All of MyAOG’s community spaces are for people aged 18 and over. Our Community Guidelines describe how we look after them.
Not every part of MyAOG works the same way. Peer Connect is a conversation between peers, so it is meant for autistic and neurodivergent members rather than for everyone who is welcome to hold an account. If you are not sure whether something fits you, email us and we can talk it through.
Which kind of connection sounds right?
Not a quiz, and not a recommendation — just a place to start.
I mostly want to be around people without much pressure
I’d like to meet other community members
I’d like one person to talk with
I’d rather join a conversation when I have time
Once you’re inside
Your MyAOG home puts everything in one place:
- Profile
- MyCelium
- Peer Connect
- Virtual PPZ
- Messages
- Group Chat
- Forums
- Notifications
- Account settings
Questions or feedback?
You do not need to decide anything before getting in touch. Email us at info@autismonthego.org, or use our contact page. Our Community Guidelines describe how we look after these spaces.
Want to explore more of AOG?
MyAOG is one part of the community. Here are some other ways to take part.