How rare is AS where you live?

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There has to be Aspies where I live.

hello folks,
Theres a support group for autism and genneral asd here in my small community(about 13,000) but I havent got around to going -typical huh ?
I think its more for parents of autistic children etc.
I wonder how they would respond to a 40+ year old who needs people desperately but not their normal type ?
To respond directly, what have they worked out is a normal percentage of people with pdd's in a particular pop.?
Is it .05% or what?
The only espie I know is my husband .so thats .00002% I think!

I don't know if I know any aspies in real life because it's not the sort of thing people tell you is it? There are a couple of people I know who seem aspie-esque to me, but I can't really tell. It's not really something you can just come out and ask is it?

I wish there was a group here for Aspies my age, but that will never happen.

No idea about Aspergers only but think people on the autism spectrum are quite common in this area [Stretford,Manchester] as have Aspirations and ASGMA based here-one of the people am live with is also Autistic, but is very mild with not enought traits for diagnosis.

Yeah, there's apparently a local group here, but I managed to forget where and when they meet.

That's probably because there aren't that many people in Murray Bridge. There are only a handful of us from South Australia here, so the odds of there being more than one from Murray Bridge are pretty small.

I haven't seen anyone here that I would consider to have AS.

I haven't met any, but probably it's just because people here barely know what ASD is, let alone AS which happens less frequently than ASD itself. The only things I've managed to dig up about autism in Iran's media either mixed it up with Savant Syndrome, or called it a psychological disorder. It's seriously sad.

Based on my own observations, though, I know some people with some of the secondary characteristics of AS such as being routined and clumsy, but both of them have good social understanding and make eye contact.

Not sure about worldwide, but the NAS has a few statistics:

http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=235&a=2156

My friend and I are both Aspie and we met in a class of around 18, so maybe that was an overload of Aspies!

People here don't even really know about AS, not even the most of the psychiatrists. There's only one autism diagnosis center (but that's 200km away, in Budapest), and it's really hard to fix an appointment there.

I know of only one other diagnosed person in my area, and he's 6 years old... I know his parents and offered I them some insight on how he perceives this world, as they are having a difficult time adjusting to his life (instead they think that he should adjust to theirs...muuch easier the other way around!)
Other than that, there are those whom I suspect have it, but may not know what it is.
I think that is common.
People just end up believing they are crazy because they can't adjust or society treats them as outcasts, and the information is not available for them to know any better.
Maybe you could find a support group (like a parenting group or people with disabilities) or counselor in your town that can figure out a way to make it more public - through the local media or papers, and then maybe people will start to recognise it.
I suspect there are many more of us out here than we can imagine....

I know some diagnosed adults (like me), and I think a lot of ranch hands are aspie. I also get to meet a lot of kids with PDD because of the work I'm in. But, I don't tell anyone why we get along so well. They just wonder.

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If just going by this board, it seems like most of the people with AS live in the UK. I've never met anyone with AS in real life, though my grandma's friend's grandson has Autism.