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AWG Secular 12 Step Self-Esteem Group 🚀


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Zoom access and meeting times

Meetings are every Tuesday from 11 am to 12 pm Eastern US Time. See Meeting Time in a Different Time Zone (normal calendar)

ALERT: The US time change on March 8 means meeting times may temporarily differ for members outside the US. Double check your time zone here!


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Meeting ID: 824 1142 4876
Code: 781927


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Meeting description

This is a secular 12 Step meeting focused on self-esteem recovery for late-identified autistic women and members of all other marginalized genders (nonbinary, gender fluid, MTF/FTM trans, agender, autigender, and more). 

We meet each Tuesday on Zoom, practice the AWG 12 Steps using the AWG 12 Step Workbook, share in response to weekly readings, and participate in the optional co-mentorship program if we so desire. 

It is not mandatory to turn on your mic or camera. Coming to listen is totally fine. By taking part, we hold space for others, and ourselves, to participate in a way that is manageable for us as we exist right now.

It is not necessary to actively be doing the AWG 12 Steps in order to be a full participant. Any contact with the group and its resources can be beneficial as long as it’s sustainable for each of us as individuals. Many of us participate simply by attending meetings.

As we participate in this meeting over time, we might find ourselves seeking to…

  • Find our own concept of self-esteem and grow toward it
  • Come to discover a more realistic sense of our place in the world
  • Reassess our relationships, especially in terms of our responsibilities towards ourselves and others
  • Come to understand personal boundaries, their roles in our lives, and how to develop and maintain healthy boundaries
  • Understand the concept of nonviolent detachment and how and when to enact it
  • Develop more manageable lifestyles
  • Develop a sense of self that leads to more health, well being, and manageability in our lives
  • Release others from the responsibility of defining or reinforcing our sense of self-esteem
  • Form personal goals about self-esteem and self-concept based on our own understanding of our own needs, as they exist today

AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Readings

Aging, autism, and self-esteem

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Learning about autism has changed the way I see aging and self-esteem

I happen to experience autism as a disability. I am challenged by parts of life that non-autistic people are not. But at the time time, I wonder whether being autistic might, in some ways, be giving me a better experience of aging than I might have if I weren't autistic. For example, sometimes I suspect that being autistic makes me feel less pressured to conform to society's expectations about appearance and "staying young" than I might as a non-autistic person. I don't always feel what others might call the "loss" of my younger self as a loss per se, either in looks or mental capabilities. Of course, my experience with aging is just one out of many. What about you? How does aging intersect with your self-esteem and self-image?

Share questions:

  • What parts of aging have helped helped your self-esteem? Challenged it? Please describe
  • Has anything about your experiences of aging and self-esteem ever surprised you? What was it? 
  • Has aging relieved any self-image-based stresses from earlier in your life? Added to image-based stresses?
  • Do you have any worries or hopes about self-esteem and aging looking into the future? 
  • Has learning about autism changed the way you think about aging? About aging as it relates to self-esteem? 
  • Any tools, resources, or strategies that helped you with this topic? 
  • Anything else to add?
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AWG 12 Step Self-Esteem Workbook

Step 1

We admitted that despite our efforts, many of the factors affecting our sense of self and self-esteem seemed out of control, leading to increased unmanageability in our lives.

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