Is everyone AS?!

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Bingo! So, drawing on Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, how about a spectrum of fully applied to completely unnapplied intelligence, with part of one's intelligence migrating from IQ-type basic reasoning across to different types of interaction during the course of one's life? The degree of autism determining the proportion of migration, and the degree of neurotypicality being the speed of responsiveness of the brain to information_

Incase anyone accuses me of wanting to diss ppl with high IQs, mine's high, but it gets balanced out by my negative AS (and other) traits. I would guess that would be a typical pattern for people in general_

Apparently there's a lot of aspies, but probably about 99.99% of them are self-diagnosed, it seems. "Oh me? I'm self-diagnosed like every other person on this earth! HELL YEAH!! !"

I haven't seen any other autistic/AS/spectrum people besides a few at an AS support group meeting and a son of my parents' friends (diagnosed with HFA). Those at the support group meeting were obviously AS or HFA, or at least quite eccentric and socially awkward with obsessions, though my parents' friends' son doesn't seem so obviously autistic to me. His social interactions do seem very one-sided, but maybe that's just because of his age? I don't know what young children are supposed to act like...

I wonder if any of the people I see daily are diagnosed or self-diagnosed, because I do hear a lot about AS being a fad diagnosis but of course cannot tell if a person has been (self-)dxed incorrectly.

am dont think having a lot more awareness in the world of a condition is the same thing as being some sort of fashion.
there is a huge amount of awareness of both autism and aspergers now, there are more experts and specialists to diagnose,there are more supports and services....is easy to see how it may look like there are more people with it,
there is better help there to diagnose more who might have not been recognised if awareness was not there.

almost everyone am know has classic autism or aspergers,but that is not a good example to show,as do not live in mainstream so am very likely to know autists,and also family is full of autists as well.
this area [urmston,manchester] is a haven for autists due to a lot of the social services' residential and group homes being based here,so another area of manchester would probably have none in or not many.
am think thats how it would work anywhere.