Is Asperger's Really More Common in Boys than Girls?

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I'd support a thesis that there's still a smaller (not small but smaller) number of girls in comparison with general ammount of boys having it. And it's true that a lot of those girls are never diagnosed, mostly because AS usually shows in them in another way than in their male counterparts. A girl must be affected more to be recognised - that girl or woman who represents mild or moderate case of AS is almost undetectable, at least for those who are not specialists. Parents of such a girl, looking for explanations of their little daughter's quirks, even having found out that such a thing like Asperger Syndrome exists, usually chase their suspitions away because they come to a conclusion that even despite sharing some similarities, their daughter doesn't fit typical descriptions. Personally, I was caught in this trap too so I'm talking from the perspective of my own experience now because all those cases of AS I read about in the beginning of my path were much more serious; those kids were borderline autistic while I, even being somewhere in the middle of AS spectrum as I'm able to judge it now, I'm perceptibly closer to the normal than to the autistic. A stereotypical image of Asperger Syndrome became too deeply rooted in people's consciousness.

There are no good epidemiological counts for Asperger's, so we can't know for sure. Estimates for the prevalence of Asperger's vary so widely as to destroy the credibility of any of them. I have seen estimates from 0.003% to 0.5%- one estimate is more than 160 times as high as the other! Before we question male-female ratio, we first need to find out how many actually are aspie, and to do that we need to figure how to accurately and consistently diagnose it.