Almost never get sick?

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I don't seem to get sick any more than most people lately. Then again, when I was very young I was coughing constantly, so much that my teachers thought I had asthma and made me use an inhaler, and I used to catch every possible cold when I played oboe. (I should have cleaned the reed more often.) Even when I catch a cold, I rarely get a temperature higher than 99 Fahrenheit, maybe because my usual temperature is a bit low. Very inconvenient, because to be let out of school for illness a temperature of at least 100 degrees is required.

In the summer I get a runny nose if I stay outside. It doesn't really bother me, and I hardly ever go outside...

I rarely got sick as a child.

I frequently get sick as an adult.

Less often.
As kid & teenager I was constantly exposed to others & I got sick at an average level/amount, a few colds per year-plus I used to get strep throat every year. Thank goodness I outgrew that (don't know how else to explain it), haven't had strep throat in 15 years or more.

I hardly ever leave the apartment, and only have contact with very few other people (no youngsters !)-and I rarely get sick. Don't feel "well" nor am I truly healthy (can't stand going to doctor, so I may be rife with illness unbeknownst to me)-but I don't "catch" much, such as colds or worse.
Have some allergy symptoms (nothing serious, just annoying) not sure what the allergy is to, but something seasonal. All that happens is stuff similar to having a cold (can tell the difference).

I take care to wash my hands after touching books at the library. Due to my diligence, I rarely get sick.

I got sick a couple of weeks ago (really nasty stomach flu - put me in the bed for 4 days straight). This was the first time that I had been sick, with anything other than food poisoning, in 6 years. Holy crud. I used to have really bad allergies as a kid. Even those have gone by the wayside.

I get nerve sick!! !

I only get sick about twice a year and I work at a hospital.

Psychological issues aside (OCD, anxieties) I have very little sicknesses. When I lived in Ireland I did have a few viral infections due to the climate, but it was never really anything serious. Apart from that, I may have had the flu 2 or 3 times in the last 5 years. Again not really anything serious. I never needed treatments in hospitals or anaesthetics.

I doubt it has anything to do with AS though, if an Aspie is sick less often than the average NT it surely must be a coincidence?

The numbers we're seeing in this poll don't seem to derive by any 'coincidence' per se. If it were a pattern of coincidences, then the result would be a bell curve. However, there are other answers besides the conclusion that Aspies don't get sick very often. All we know from these numbers is that Aspies are more likely to think that they are less prone to disease than average. Perhaps...

1. Maybe Aspies who get sick often are less likely to take the poll, or
2. Aspies think people get sick more often than they actually do, or
3. Aspies are less likely to recognize or admit that they are sick, when they actually are

To draw the conclusion properly, we'd need to have actual statistics on illness for the general population for a control group. And then we'd need a test group of (diagnosed) Aspies with medical details. If we decided to go with self-report as our measure, we'd still have to study how well self-report matches actual illness for Aspies and for general population. And I suspect that Aspies are bound to give different reports than they otherwise would, if they know they are part of a study.

Despite the difficulties measuring the effect and finding the cause... I'm still curious what is (presumably) causing Aspies to think this way.

Well, when I don't have any problem getting up in the morning and I don't feel cruddy, stopped up, coughing, wheezy or achy, then I consider myself NOT sick. I actually can't remember the last time I had a cough . . . hmm. There was one year in high school, 10th grade I think, where I got bronchitis 4 or 5 times in one year . . . but haven't had it since, and I'm 24 now.