What percentage of autistics don't know they are?

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My son was placed in a special preschool class for developmentally delayed children for his speech delay. I had never heard of Asperger's before the school wanted him tested. The fact that he wouldn't engage with the others was just viewed by family members as -he just takes after his mom. As a matter of fact, until I started reading on the subject I was equating the diagnosis with his sensory issues entirely. The more I read the more I recognize difficulties in my own life that I have never understood. I have suffered quite a lot and at middle age just accepted that I didn't fit, I didn't know how to be like other people and was kind of glad people didn't bother me anymore with why aren't you this or why aren't you that. Did I ramble? OK back to topic. I think there are many who have never heard of Asperger's but would definitely fit the criteria.

I knew nothing about AS until a couple years ago. We moved to a new state and i gave my son's teacher a heads up about his focusing and inability to complete his classwork. She watched him for a month and the first meeting was to be set up. She told me to bring notes about him from the time he was born to present. I never, NEVER even thought about an ASD, much less, AS! I thought they'd dx him with ADD (which he was a year later by his neuro). Took most the year for all the evals and observations and came up with (mild) ASD (AS off the record). That year i read a lot into it. I had never heard of AS. I thought autism was autism...classic, and that was it. The more i read, the more he fit. Then i started reading up even more and this year i found i fit too. I am actually amazed by it.

Btw, i have an uncle that has been in an instatution (now a nursing home) since he was a teen. He was into drugs. They say the drugs did this to him, but i bet he was on the spectrum. They gave him the dx of schizo so the state could keep him and pay for it. I really wonder what he really has. He shows a lot of ASD traits.

It should look familiar, Grasshopper--it is 22/7 (to seven decimal places), an approximation of pi. The sevenths are interestingly repeating sequences of six decimal digits:

1/7 = 0.142857142857...
2/7 = 0.285714285714...
3/7 = 0.428571428571...
4/7 = 0.571428571428...
5/7 = 0.714285714285...
6/7 = 0.857142857142...
7/7 = 0.999999999999... (haha)

If you can remember the sequence 142857, you know your sevenths!