Is autism and aspergers very common where you live?

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Either I'm not looking hard enough, or there's not really a lot of autistic people (mostly teens and adults) where I live.

It's really not that common for anyone. I have only had two experiences in the past year where I suspected someone had an ASD: one of my old friends and a little boy I saw in a restaurant once. We might see more people with ASDs than we realize, it's just that they're blending in.

I see it, but only because I already know the person is on the spectrum. I know 3 other little boys on the spectrum but only because their parents have told me.

The only adults that I know on the spectrum are the ones I've met through here IRL.

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I have no clue. I know there are aspies in my area. They are everywhere and the fact I saw them at the barbecue last year.

Autism can almost be called common in my birth town. But that has to do with its location. It has a lot of educational facilities and a lot of schools. Therefore a lot of parents move there.

And I think it also has to do with it's former isolated place in NL and it also could be considered a part of the Dutch Biblebelt.

So a lot of autis there... it makes people a lot more accepting I think, than in other towns.

I don't know any other aspie in my town except for me (and my town population is 1'000.000 +). Of course, here people don't know about Asperger's AT ALL, but I actually think there aren't many people with AS, because I always hear the same line about my personality: "I've never seen anyone like you in my whole life!" (they don't know about my AS either).

My brother thinks that there are an awful lot of autistic people where we live. I don't think there are any more than average; maybe he just notices it more because he spends a lot of time with one (me!)

Worked with one guy here (first person to suggest it to me) and saw a few bumper stickers abd one guy walking down the street wearing an Autism shirt who wouldn't look at me.

yes,it's always very common where am live [in residential care] though there's only one other autie here,there is a resident who is very aspie like but not diagnosed.
this area of manchester is also full of autistics because of the amount of residential and group homes here.

Only on the fringes...hard to explain.....

where i live
people have never heard of it

and school difficulties are not taken seriously at all,
whether it is for adhd, dislexia, gifted kids, asperger's or anything else

the only way of dealing with non-average kids seems to be 'fail them, they'll learn to behave'
rather frustrating as a teacher i must say, but maybe i've just been unlucky to encounter this kind of people to work with.

My mum used to work as a teacher and she had two diagnosed aspies in her classes in her last year. These are the only aspies I know of in Ireland apart from people on this website.

Either I meet them and don't know it and they don't really think much of me and since I am so shy I tend to not to gravitate to them. To my knowledge, I don't meet very many with AS around here. It's hard to imagine anyone having it here because there are so many knuckleheads who take pride in their idiocy. Their biggest fault is presumptuousness.

I've known two in my school: one who was a couple of years below me and I never really knew that well, and one who was in my year for a while but his autism was much more pronounced and he needed a lot more attention. There were also a few in CTYI, this summer camp for teenagers who do well enough on an aptitude test.

I study mathematics and a relatively large portion of people with AS seem drawn to it. A couple of the lecturers in my department and a couple of the students in my class have been speculated to be autistic. I even had one conversation with another student about which students in the class had AS, he thought one student had it and this was understandable and he also thought this other student had it and that seemed way off-base. In the midst of this conversation I told him about my own diagnosis and he was surprised. But nobody who has actually been diagnosed, as far as I know.

I also attended a social skills training class in my college for people with AS and met a bunch of people there and through that group.

i live in the autism nexium of the united states. bergen and passaic county nj have double the rate of autism of any other place on the planet.

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We have a autistic school here. Years ago my nieghbors little boy was autistic and my nephews twin brother is autistic- he is quite cute for a little guy.

I don't know anyone else who is.