naturalplastic wrote:
You could make a ballpark guesstimate.
In my day the number of HS kids with aspergers who got dx'd was zero, and the ones missed were 100 percent! This was because aspergers was not a recognized condition until 1994. And even after 1994 even most shrinks (let alone parents, and school administrators and faculty) never heard of the condition for another decade. So aspie highschoolers were ALWAYS missed prior to 1994, and maybe less than ten percent were officially recognized in the period from 1994 to 2004.
Today its probably about 50-50. Half of aspies get diagnosed as such by HS, and about half don't.
The question is "why do you ask"?
Do you want the number of invisible aspie highschoolers to be large? Or small? You seem to want it to be large. Large perhaps to make yourself seem more normal?
You probably have good news- that the aspies who are officially diagnosed by HS are only maybe half of the true number. And alot nerdy science types arent just "NTs with aspie traits", but are in fact true aspies.
Thanks for attempting to answer. For me, the "good news" would be either a really low percentage (0.5% or something), indicating I probably don't have it, or a really high percentage (like 50%+), making the condition seem more normal and less debilitating.
I just get nervous when I see the 75% unemployed stat for Aspies. Since I have pretty dang high academic achievement (4.0 UW, 2310 SAT), most people think I will be successful, but that stupid unemployment number keeps bothering me and makes me doubt myself.
02 Dec 2014, 9:16 am
