Almost never get sick?

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A lot of Aspies I've run into have told me they "never get sick". I doubt we have some super-powered immune system... but if being a social butterfly means rubbing shoulders with disease-ridden people, I can see how our unwillingness to mingle might work to our advantage. And if we go outside less, I imagine weather and allergies would bother us less. Or maybe we just keep it to ourselves when we DO get sick. Who knows.

Anyone else here find that they never - or almost never - get sick?

I get sick quite often, usually just sinus infections and things like that.
I knew someone who I think is most likely an aspie who never gets sick though, even when almost everyone else in our school was out sick.

Usually, I never get sick. But for some reason, I've been sick 5 times this year - three times with the stomach flu and twice with a cold. I read on Yahoo news about a super-powerful stomach sickness that's resistant to antiseptics... I wonder if that's what made me sick so often?

I rarely get sick. Last time I was, it was a year and a half ago. However, my mom gets sick quite often. Today is the fourth time she's been sick this year. It's amazing I've never picked up anything from her.

Almost never. I have migrene, but other than that im sick like once every other year or so.

My Dad was an Aspie and he practically never got sick in his 78 years. But about 5 years before he died he would get a lot of energy-sapping viruses. But he stayed active and kept taking his vitamin C.

Me, I'm 36 and I guess I am about normal in getting sick. I get a summer flu every goddamn year and I hate it. I get the flu in the winter. I get hay fever every year and my body reacts to it just as if I had the flu.

I never got sick (except one case of high fever at 3 and a case of chicken pox during elementary school) when I was younger (and more autistic). Dunno if that's pure chance or if there's a connection?

During later teenage years, I was sick constantly. I attribute this to the stress I had to cope with (and failed to cope with).

Nowadays, I get sick less and less often. I have less stress, yeah! I haven't been sick since March!

I have one allergy since childhood and recently may have developed hay fever (yet unsure) though.

I do think allergies are quite common among the autistic spectrum. But I wouldn't say that's like real sickness or that it has a connection with catching many colds/flues/other. (?)

I only get colds like once a year or so but I get depressed all the time which is almost like physical illness. I can get so depressed that my whole body feels like crap.

I get sick more often than most people. I think my immune system is slightly weaker than average.

My mother tells me I used to lick EVERYTHING as a child, I probably built up some sort of immunity. I've only gotten colds and I only get them like once every three years and only for a few days. I probably get them because I apparently don't dress right for the weather. I'd rather cough a little bit than feel as if I was being smothered.

AND when I get really, really stressed somehow my resistance to viruses practically disappears.

Like when my parents died. My Mom died in 2005 and after her funeral I got violently ill with the flu that was going around that year. No one else got sick. But I was in the bathroom puking my guts up for two days straight. It was one of those 24 hour "stomach flus."

Then when my Dad died recently, I got very sick with ...something this time around too. It honestly felt like food poisoning this time around rather than the flu though. And it's not my nerves either. I handle death very well these days. I have seen a lot of it. So it's not psychosematic.

If and when I do get sick, it's never badly enough for me to be able to completely ignore it. I'm probably sick right now.

I rarely get sick with major things (e.g. pneumonia), but I'll often have a cold or a headache- I don't bother taking medication for them though as they don't really bother me.

I get sick all the time, but mostly during the winter/spring and it's usually mild things like cold/allergies.

I get anything and everything that comes around. My kids bring something home from school, I get it. I'm constantly sick. Being worked up now for an autoimmune disease. Doctor thinks I have Lupus and she's probably right. Waiting official diagnosis from a rheumatologist.

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...