God! I haven't been to a Star Trek convention since the 1990s.

I've never been to any kind of comic/show convention.

I've been to two Star Trek conventions and one Sci-fi convention. I guess the dealer dens were the best part for me. At the Sci-fi convention, I won a Star Trek trivia contest and was presented with a blister pack of three ships from one of the series. I'd love to go to a "furry" convention but there ain't one near me. The closest one is in Orlando. We have a comic convention on an island about 5 miles or so from my home in December. I may try to go to it this year.

Hazel reminds me a little bit of a friend of mine. She lives her life online so she doesn't have to deal with people.

Thats... more or less where I'm at too unless you count the time I spend at work

My friend has Asperger syndrome. She works out of her house 4-1/2 days a week. The fifth day, she has to drive to the office for three or four hours to meet with clients ("Yuck!") and pick up and drop off assignments. She is an architect and does 3D 'fly-through' animations of buildings that don't exist yet. She is also an artist, mostly acrylics. Natural scenes and a few portraits. She asked me to accompany her to an opening and sale at art gallery; I didn't know she had about a dozen pieces there.

A few years ago, she dragged me to photograph a parade in a nearby city. She hates crowds; her therapist told her to do it. I think she actually enjoyed it. My girlfriend is a therapist and desperately wants to meet her, since Asperger's is rare in women. I've dealt with a person with Asperger's all my life -- I live with my middle brother, who has been relatively successful in dealing with it.