Aspies and the Nordic countries

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i have nordic roots.. hmmmm. I wonder if there is a connection.

The question of minorities is an interesting one. My school had a number of minority students, and my mother (head of the upper school) often had a harder time convincing minority parents to have their kids tested for a learning difference than she did with non-minority parents. (Although some of those were in denial, too.) I think they were aware of the racist undertones in the US which assume that people of a minority aren't as smart as white people -- this is ridiculous, of course, but it persists nonetheless. I can understand not wanting to risk your child being exposed to that kind of attitude. That worry may carry over to having a child "labeled" as having AS or Autism.

Your comment about middle or working-class intrigues me. I come from an upper-class family. I don't know anyone else with AS. I attended an independent school, so most students came from fairly affluent families, although the school was and is generous with scholarships. Most of my friends, and certainly the men and women I've had romantic relationships with, have been from working-class backgrounds, though. I wonder if the middle- and working-class are more willing to look into why a child is "different" than the upper class.

No Nordic roots here. My ancestry is Western European, but about the furthest north it gets is Belguim. I look very very much like a Walloon!