How many members does WP have?

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And more importantly, how many active members? I also wonder how much it's fluctuated over the years. I remember it used to be listed way back in the day when I first joined. Just curious.

103,090 total

memberlist.php?mode=group&g=17

Yes. When WP had the old look that they changed like a year ago there was display in the upper corner of how many members there were. Like McDonalds used to have "six billion served" on the golden arch signs.

For WP it was 35 thousand when I joined. Gradually rose to 50 thousand. I think it was 75 thousand when they changed to the present look without that number display.

But the number of active members is a tiny fraction of that.

It feels like the population is about the size of a medium large suburban American highschool, or about 2000 folks who regularly post.

About 103,000 have signed on to WrongPlanet. Only about 30,000-40,000 have at least 1 post, though.

There's probably a few hundred active members at any one time.

Wow those figures seem awful low considering how many people have Autism, what gives?

One should remember that not everybody with cancer will subscribe to a cancer website.

WrongPlanet is the Site with the most autistic people BY FAR.

What is % of
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3

And its not the only autistic/aspie site.

There "Aspie Central"? I think that what its called that is quite populous. Real competition.

I was a member of the Aspie Hangout before I learned about this site. It used to be lively, but now its deader than a ghost town. Tumbleweeds roll through it now.

Olive Oil Mom started her own rival site called "Right Planet". You can hear the crickets chirp there too.

Aspie Central is not really a close second to WrongPlanet.

About a year ago, they were actively recruiting members.

WrongPlanet never did this.

Someone else said the opposite.

On another current thread this person said that they were convinced that "most of you here on WP CAN"T be aspies. I thought it was a rare condition! How could there be some many?".

I walked them through the arithmetic to show them that all even if all 100K members of WP were active it would only be a tiny percent of the autistic population of the English speaking world.

The US has about 340 million people.

If one out of 50 people are autistic, we would have about 6.8 million autistic people in this country.

...I always remember seeing a My Weekly Reader about he U.S. officially reaching 200 million population , in 1967 , when I was 7 .

Yes.

And lets ignore folks like Pawelk, and Drawyer, who can write in English but are not from English speaking countries.

The English speaking world includes the UK (what...60 million people), Canada 35 million, Australia, and New Zealand.

Call it 500 million. One in 50 are on the ASD spectrum.

So thats ten million English speaking autistics.

Only 100 thousand have ever visited WP. And only maybe 1000 of them are active participants.


MagicKnight in "Members Only" asked "are there really that many aspies here?".

Last edited by naturalplastic on 25 Mar 2016, 7:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Back around 1970 you could think of the US as having 200 my population, both the state of California, and the nation of Canada as having 20 million, and Australia as having 10 million (Full, ten percent, and five percent, easy). The numbers are all bigger. And not all of the ratios are quite the same now.

In the old, pre-Aspergian days, an incidence of about 1 in 1,000 was frequently quoted for autism.

The US had about 227 million people in 1980. This would mean that 227,000 people had (Kanner) autism. Still many more than 100,000.