How rare is AS where you live?

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Rare, and the numbers work against you.

1 in 150 and mostly male,

1 in 500 female?

Times fifty years,

1 in 25,000, female, 15,

Murray Bridge, 18,194,

female and within 13 to 18, there should be four in your town.

Then come the problem that it is rural farm country, country kids spend time alone, I did.

Girl gamer might be rarer,

and artist.

This planet is about large enough for one RedMage.

What I have learned from WP is a specturm of AS, times a mix of age, gender, other conditions, times a range of personalities, means we are all alone.

A simple DNA test points out one in 8,700,000, about the same odds as winning the six number lottery.

One more marker we are up to total planet population.

The One and Only RedMage!

I am happy to find one small thing in another person I can relate to.

If anything, AS works against you. Your natural group would be girl gamers,

They all have this thing for computers, and are focused on play.

What you have to work with is fan art, you have mentioned conventions.

Not going to happen in Murray Bridge.

There should be a fairly large group, about your age, in Australia.

Go with art, AS is impossible to explain, art is a close second, but acceptable.

There is original video game and anime art, but that is hard to hang on a wall.

I like your Red Mage drawing. I think there will be a secondary market.

Anime and game type images as posters? I can see it used in advertising.

It is an up and coming field, you have the knowledge base, you know games.

Your computer graphic art skills are developing.

Being an obsessive aspie can work for you,

it took thousands of hours just to get the background you have.

It will take thousands more to develop a drawing style, and learn the software used.

I lived in New York City, knew many artists, they all wanted to move upstate to some dead farming town where they could focus on their work. You are there.

Most artists are seeking a patron, someone to support them while they develop, you have it.

You know the history of the field,

You have the drive and time to develop it,

in two years you could have a body of work that would get you into a University, a job, or a business of your own.

Teens spend a huge amount of money. ads pitched to them, images they will respond to, are big business.

Behold the Power of RedMage!

Inventor -- That's a cool way to look at the situation. It makes sense to me.

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They bring groups of disabled people into the library regularly, but these people have far more severe disabilities than Asperger's. Some are classically autistic, at least one I saw likely had cerebral palsy and some have Down Syndrome. Those with Down Syndrome appear to be higher functioning than most of the rest. There are a fair number of homeless people who come into the library as well. I wouldn't classify them with ASDs.

Then there are people I'd just consider rude: screaming kids, people gabbing on their cell phones and people speaking in loud voices. I consider this just rude behavior.

I don't know any other Aspies. However, I do have a young cousin who has HFA.

I do feel that there are many people out there who are on the spectrum but they are undiagnosed. I see many people with less social skills than I have.

When I firtst read about asperger, I felt I was the only aspie around, and that had never met another. Then, I noticed that I am verry aspie, and that. by this reason, I tend to believe only very aspie people would be aspie. Adding that, I know feel people than NTs usually do, so I know, relatively feel aspies, anyway, most of the people in my relations through my hole life are a litle aspies. Now I can see a lot of aspie people everywhere. Have you ever been at a maths department?

I have never met anotherAspie here in my town.

Matter of fact, the people here in my town would just say "Ass Burger-WHAT???"

There is practically no awareness about AS whatsoever.

Ex's nephew was diagnosed last year...his mom is likely one also. Also the younger brother of one of my son's friends, & another lady's grandson...this is in small radius.

Quit a few high suspects with all the traits around here too.

In Antwerp(Belgium) people seem to have a bit of a clue what it is.
It's not -that- rare here, as i know at least 3 or 4 other autistics(not sure about AS-count though)

I think there are a couple more Aspie kids at the school I go to. My high school case manager has a daughter with some form of autism. But I seriously doubt there's many aspies in a southern California Republican-dominated farm town.

Well I can't be to certain, but in a population of roughly 1600, I know 9 people who are aspies (including myself)

Give the local group a try. Some are extremely accepting of adults. I joined a local group that first appeared to be for parents, but they welcomed me. Then I met other AS adults.

I now know 20 people in my county alone with Aspergers. I know a number of others I suspect are on the spectrum including a few of my cousins. My nephew is Aspie too.

I live in Ciudad Madero Tamaulipas, Mexico. And almost all people don't know anything about Asperger Syndrome, maybe that's the reason it's not easy for me getting a diagnosis. People thinks having autism is being like the Rain Man character. If I say "I have AS, a form of autism", no one would believe me.

I'm thinking maybe a classmate has AS, because his way of thinking and processing information, but I'm not sure. He actually knows he is different, and my sister says we have a lot in common, and we are weird.

I don´t think "having asperger" express real things. Probablly aspie people are the ones that express aspiecity at a high degree; in this sense,"aspieness" would be like high, and aspies would be like higher people, but everybody "having a high", at the same time that nobody would be completelly aspie, and that everybody would be aspie at some degree.

I`m the only male i know about with AS in my "town" (except my dad, who i think have AS), it`s a girl living about 10 minuttes from here that has AS.
I`ve heard it`s an Autistic school some place near here, but i don`t know if it is any Aspie one`s going there except here.

It`s not "rare" around here, but it`s that almost no one i know that know`s about it or even heard about it.

I should make an Aspie group for people who live here...

I have met two guys and 0 girls who have called themselves aspies...I live in Houston, which is a pretty big and sprawling city...the place where I live (super happy fun land) is very much a magnet fro people who are neurologicly different..so aside from the people who have come out and siad they were Aspies, there are several people who come here who exhibit strong apsie or HFA traits..we also have alot of friends who are kinda schitzophrenic and who have other disorders like that...or just chronic nonspecified akwardness..it is nice that such a neuro-diverse group of people can feel comfortable here...as long as they understand that the people who are running out place are neuro-diverse as well.....etc.....we do our best...blah blah blah