Is autism and aspergers very common where you live?

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I work with another aspie ... I actually don't like it. I'm a little better at the NT stuff, so I get stuck with it all the time, while he gets to do the fun stuff

Nope in my environment it's just a friend and me.
Ahh and my mum, but she lives in a different country.

We have a lot of creative and high tech industries in this area so, absolutely, there is a relatively high rate of AS. High functioning AS, for the most part.

The funny thing I've realized is we all mostly seem to speak in code. Whenever my son starts a new camp, I have to go through the routine of explaining his sensory issues, and they almost always have had some experience with that, and know about keeping transitions clear, etc. But no one actually says or asks if it is AS.

Asperger's is common in my community, but the parents aren't in touch. There is an autism group, but they dismiss AS parents because classic autism is "so much worse" and someone with a high-functioning child wouldn't understand. They're also obsessed with vaccines . There's a small adolescent AS group, but it's run by Crazy Jesus People (I do live in the south).

I can tell you, in my life's experience it is common. I don't tend to make friends easily atall. I have had about 4 close friends in my life, over different times. They all had aspereger's. Whether this was coincidental or i get along with these people, i don't know. I may have something in common or maybe have it myself as i do have a few of the characteristics of it.

i had actually never met another autistic or aspie untill i met my friend Cody at school, and untill i came to this site, he was the only other aspie i knew

I am wondering if the Stirling area, in Scotland, is an Asperger's hotbed.

With the amount of Aspies I meet who turn out to be from the area.

Seems to be alot in Alberta, and I notice some people with aspie traits, I think there was a Canadian cartoon with a aspie character called Kevin Spencer.