how common is AS?

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How common is AS - 1 in ??

How common is Autism - 1 in ??

anyone know?

1 in 0 here.

I am guessing it will vary between countries.

Autism 1 in 1000, I think.

AS 1 in 150, I dunno.

AS is common/mainstream enough to be 'related' to 'depression, retardation, down's syndrome' etc

I believe it is 1 in 200. But have a feeling that it is really 1 in 100-150. This is Aspergers not any other type of Autism.

Well, Autism is SUPPOSEDLY 1 in 150. SUPPOSEDLY! Frankly, I doubt that. At least HALF of them are apparently high functioning. I Imagine that probably at least half of THEM are AS. That would mean that maybe 1/600 have AS. According to one website, "36/10,000(1/277) - 55/10,000(almost 1/181) of all boys, and 15/10,000(1/666(YIKES! )) of all girls" have AS.

Steve

1 in 875

But it is becoming more and more common

The Mayo Clinic has estimated (I emphasize estimated) Autism occurs in 1 in 150 births.

They estimate Aspergers specifically at 2-3 in 10,000 births.

if you can tolerate the wonderful flaws of wikipedia.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers#Epidemiology

Autistic Spectrum Disorders, according to the most recent stats, are diagnosed at 1/150 kids. To my knowledge, there are no stats on AS; however, in using a bell curve, statistically there should be higher numbers of "higher-functioning" individuals than "lower-functioning" (I put that in quotes because of the Functioning debate). What this would also mean is that there are more people who are Broader Autistic Phenotype (i.e., Shadow Syndrome) than higher-functioning individuals.

My suspicion? ASDs have always been around although I think it's very probable our numbers are growing. My reasoning? Obstetric complications and early childhood illness are VERY overrepresented in ASDs. Before this age of medical advancement, I suspect a good many of us might not have made it too far past the womb. I for one wouldn't be here.

Diagnosis have increased greatly in recent years so we only have outdated ratios.

I suspect we are getting closer to having a genetic test for autism and AS. Right now there are probably many different cognative disfunctions grouped under the autism umbrella. For instance, some autistics are discovered within a family history of autism, where others are diagnosed autistic after such complications as brain damage at birth.

My guess is that after better genetic testing of autism the ratios will be about 1 in 115, and AS will be about 1 in 10,000. Remember, since AS is one subgroup of spectrum disorder within the larger group of autistic spectrum disorders so AS, by definition, cannot appear in a higher ratio of the population than are autistics in general (which include AS).

Lets just say that no one knows exactly how common it is since alot cases of AS can go undiagnosed and be called something else. So we can just guess that how common it is.