How Many People Here Are actually Autistic or have Aspergers

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there we go with the stereotype again...

to answer your question- I'm suspected AS (by a psychiatrist) dx'ed ADHD.

bartending is a job anyone with two hands could do.

i think you are jumping to conclusions here...

i only compare with myself ..i dont think i would be very good at "bartending".. i mean all that human interaction...

This has been a very interesting thread so far. I’m amazed at the number of replies in such short time. All I really expected was that somebody might say something like:
“Maybe 80% of us are on the Spectrum” or something like that and that would have been the end of it.
Maybe the question just struck a chord for some reason. It wasn’t intended to be ill spirited but it was educational.
I learned that some people don’t have a sense or irony or a sense of humor. I should have anticipated that and been far more specific and diplomatic in phrasing my original question.
I also learned that very few people actually read the entirety of all the various posts so the thread got kind of convoluted and off-track on some occasions. I won’t ask any more questions that require a lot of input.
For those who didn’t read the whole thread I am not an NT whatever that actually implies and I am diagnosed with Autism whatever that implies. I personally don’t put much stock into labels but it seemed from I had read in other posts, that they were important to many people here for one reason or another. I just wanted to find out why.
I never asked anybody to post and ‘prove’ their status or diagnoses let alone justify their existence but some took it that way. I will be more careful in phrasing questions in the future.
Sorry I offended so many people with what I considered to be a simple question.

Thanks
Gary

Pfft. I don't think you did necessarily offend. I took it as a literal question that each person could answer in their own way. Nobody was forced to (I imagine). I've found it interesting too.

Don't take it so hard Gary, to me it looked like this was your personal forum and everyone different from you, had to get lost! Maybe I took the question wrong? Your last post indicate so.

When I read your post Gary, I thought you were saying lot of people here don't have AS or have autism because that was what you said in your OP. I guess lot of us took it literal. I even thought maybe you were a troll as I kept on reading this thread until you explained yourself. Then I thought, maybe not. I'm very sorry.


We have had people here in the past saying we don't have it and one time we had a member here who came and kept saying lot of us don't have it and he was indeed a troll because he was a regular member here but came back under a different name after being banned. He was saying we don't have it just to piss us off and he sure did a darn good job.
So when someone comes along again doing the same thing, it is going to be taken the wrong way and he or she will end up with angry replies and of course sarcasm from members here which is what happened in your thread.

That person sounds like a dum dum alright. I guess in that case the unsaid is that someone makes up something like this for attention? I dunno but I don't need that kind of attention!

I wasn’t always as hideous as I appear in my avatar and like Quasimodo in the bell tower I have a good heart but am often misunderstood. I have been visiting this place for about four years but I go in and out as many of us do and over the years I have seen a change in not only the people but the type of questions being asked. It is a far different place today than it was even a year ago and many of you old regulars have to admit to that fact. There seemed to be some period in time that coincided with several TV specials when people actually started to believe that it was 'cool' to have Aspergers's Syndrome. It was a fad thing that separated you from regular society. This trend is still pretty pervasive and I was trying to see how pervasive it was here.
The various posts stand for themselves now and everybody can look back through them for several more years to come as we all go in and out. Sometimes simple questions need to be posed since we are far to complex to just waste time in answering complex questions.

Happy birthday.


I range from 12 to 16....except when I first wake up, at which time I swear I do not feel a day over 108.

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Yes it should be a happy birthday indeed. Your presence here changed the world in some small or perhaps big way. We don't know yet but the world would not be the same without you.

yes. i have AS.

I range from 12 to 16....except when I first wake up, at which time I swear I do not feel a day over 108.[/quote]

14 is the average..i can slide in either direction...

Edit: nevermind...

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Happy Birthday!

I am just going to cop to being a known opinion.

A rough tally of this thread, most do. Of the several hundred regulars, most do, and the few other find it contagious. I have seen converts, just as we can take on NT ways. We never get great at that, but our converts can never go back. We are not weak like your Satanist rock and roll, we are forever!

Popular TV aside, by the low numbers, 1 in 150, just counting boys, 3,000,000 in the US.

Wrong Planet has the very rare Autistic girls, about 50%. Somebody has wrong numbers.

2/3 of the people on the site are guests. Hi and Welcome! Most who have joined have never posted.

Most viewers have been silent guests.

There is a slight problem with Autism and Asperger's, they are old and established, but there are some folks in charge of a magic black book that keeps trying to chop off hunks as alphabet real disorders that they can sell Ritlin to.

I support the one ASD faction. Pan-ASD-ism. The only approved treatment is a really good beer. Stout for me.

Under that, the 100 to 150 that are here regularly all fit. This is the largest gathering of autistic minds in history. It is only a small part of what we know is out there. I do not have a great time sense, but I came in at 7000, and it has tripled. Active online has tripled, and it has changed.

Different, not a small village anymore, but I think it is attracting the right sort.

Yes it is still a cult, but with potential to become a larger cult.

We try to help each other, parents who love someone they do not understand, and confuse Freshman Psych Majors. Our cult can beat up your cult!

We ponder, what is ASD, and are closer to the reality that the families that seek learning here. Our best role is to be watched, the social cues we miss, our conflicts, many self induced, yet we do resolve, and life goes on.

Not bad for a bunch of isolated loners. I have seen many come through, learn they were not the only one, came up to speed in communicating, and went on to productive lives. Most I have heard of were doing well, and when not, come back for a visit. It is not just me, is powerful medicine.

We are the reality that parents can view, and not the fear they are sold. We are not a bad lot, and compared to those who post to AOL news, reserved and intelligent ladies and gentlemen. Civil and intelligent, even when venting and ranting.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

I was a full time lurker in these forum in 2006, from february to november, i read so much i learned how to spot aspies by reading their posts. This is what i learned: The number of real aspies in this forum is rather high, but those aspies are bad at socializing, find it hard to post in friendly conversational ways, so they are rather silent, lurkers. On the other side, the missdiagnosed ones don't have such social issues, so they post a lot, in conversational ways, become popular quickly, make friends with the other missdiagnosed. The end result is that around 90% of WP posts are made by people outside the spectrum, while at the same time more than 50% of the members actually are in the spectrum. (The 80% you mention is definitively too high)

IMO the big problem is that autism was defined by people who were out of the spectrum themselves, so it was defined in terms of observable behaviors, instead of focusing on more medically-verifiable symptoms. My theory is that monotone voice is a reliable and easy way to test for aspieness. I will post about that in a few months.

I have something neuro/psychological issues that might fit with Aspergers. I have a family history with it and I have family members who have it.