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11 Apr 2006, 2:13 pm

Or anyone who speak Norwegian, Swedish or Danish for that matter. I'm just curious since I found almost no resources related to Asperger's in any of the mentioned languages. There's little information, and it's all geared towards relatives and teachers ( ie nothing related to actually being an aspie ), and certainly no community resources like this (maybe an idea for someone :wink: ). So, if you're a scandinavian or speak any of the mentioned languages, please speak up. I'm from Norway, and it seems there's no organised resource for asperger's/autism at all -- like there are no aspies outside of English speaking countries at all :roll:



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11 Apr 2006, 5:08 pm

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Or anyone who speak Norwegian, Swedish or Danish for that matter. I'm just curious since I found almost no resources related to Asperger's in any of the mentioned languages. There's little information, and it's all geared towards relatives and teachers ( ie nothing related to actually being an aspie ), and certainly no community resources like this (maybe an idea for someone :wink: ). So, if you're a scandinavian or speak any of the mentioned languages, please speak up. I'm from Norway, and it seems there's no organised resource for asperger's/autism at all -- like there are no aspies outside of English speaking countries at all :roll:



Jeg er norsk og jeg leder et diskusjonsforum for Nordmenn med Aspergers, http://groups.msn.com/Norskgruppeforvok ... erssyndrom



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11 Apr 2006, 5:12 pm

About 5% of WrongPlanet users are from a Scandinavian country. See this graph (the two slices pulled out at the bottom are Scandinavian countries. I think Netherlands is also a scandanavian country but I forgot to pull that graph slice out. Those are actually pretty high percentages for the non-US/Canada/UK/Australian countries Sweden is actually the highest non-english speaking country.

This graph is visitors from April 4th to April 11:

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11 Apr 2006, 5:17 pm

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About 5% of WrongPlanet users are from a Scandinavian country. See this graph (the two slices pulled out at the bottom are Scandinavian countries. I think Netherlands is also a scandanavian country but I forgot to pull that graph slice out. Those are actually pretty high percentages for the non-US/Canada/UK/Australian countries Sweden is actually the highest non-english speaking country.

This graph is visitors from April 4th to April 11:

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Netherlands are not an Scandinavian country. Norway, Denmark and Sweden are the Scandinavian countries.



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11 Apr 2006, 5:22 pm

Oh thats why I probably didn't pull out that slice to begin with!


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11 Apr 2006, 5:29 pm

Another thing to note is that the city of Los Angeles accounts for 1.64% of WrongPlanet visits! Although pacbell and other major California ISPs run through LA.


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11 Apr 2006, 5:45 pm

Lonermutant wrote:
Pan wrote:
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Jeg er norsk og jeg leder et diskusjonsforum for Nordmenn med Aspergers, http://groups.msn.com/Norskgruppeforvok ... erssyndrom

Den har jeg ikke sett før, takk skal du ha!

Alex: thanks for the stats. I'm mainly curious to see if there are any online resources in Norwegian (or Swedish/Danish, they're all very similar), so if you know of anything or have anything to add, please reply. I was really starting to worry that there was nothing at all ( Google turned up nothing, and browsing through the forums I found nothing ).



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11 Apr 2006, 5:55 pm

We have a foreign language forum. If you can get enough scandanavians to post in there, I can make a separate forum just for scandanavians.


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11 Apr 2006, 6:40 pm

I saw that, but they don't seem to be very active. I'm not asking anything of you, I'm just really just seeking contact with people a little closer to where I live. I live in a fairly small town, so the internet is the best resort I have. So if there are any more scandinavians here, they can reply to this thread, or even just PM me. The link Lonermutant gave me ( a MSN group ) was the kind of thing I was looking for.



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12 Apr 2006, 2:03 pm

Nice graph Alex! (and regards from The Netherlands) :lol:



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13 Apr 2006, 1:29 pm

uhm first of all there is LOADS of info about aspergers in sweedish, c'mon guys Mr Gillberg himself is from sweeden! (tho i dont likehim at all..:()
so, Pan what town are you from? im startting my own norwegian aspie forum AS soon AS i get a server and some other stuff...:D



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14 Apr 2006, 5:07 pm

I'm from Sweden too. A forum for swedish/scandinavian members would be nice, we seem to lack a discussion board for just swedes.
One site I had high hopes for is www.autismforum.se. It had quite a lot of facts and articles, but the forum was hard to locate and didn't seem too active.



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15 Apr 2006, 8:04 am

Nice graph, Alex, what's the percentage of German members?
I don't see any numbers for Germany there..
Size-wise it looks like around 5 %.



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15 Apr 2006, 9:27 am

scousered wrote:
Nice graph, Alex, what's the percentage of German members?
I don't see any numbers for Germany there..
Size-wise it looks like around 5 %.


This is based on the number of visits.

An updated graph (from last 7 days) shows germany at 1.11% and norway at .98 percent. Germany was a little less than where Norway is today in the graph I included in this thread.


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15 Apr 2006, 12:31 pm

Then the slice between Sweden and Canada which i referred to was Australia. 5 per cent for Germany was wishful thinking



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17 Apr 2006, 7:05 am

I'm from Norway.