Autism 'more common than thought' ...again?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5174144.stm

"Autism 'more common than thought'"

(But then I never considered that people thought much!)


Various pieces of research have been pushing up the known incidence.

yeah we are now 1% of the population, its a fricking aspie revolution

But is it actually more common, or are diagnoses of children getting better?

If the latter is the case, how many undiagnosed adults are out there, agonising over the thought that they are just "weird?"

Julie

I can't remember what it was before

I understand the figures have roughly doubled from those maintained perhaps ten years ago.

I'm not going to fight for the "advancing wave of Aspie superhumans" camp.

I'm more the "There are more roles and niches in human society than found in many people's philosophy."

The current record holder is Japan at 2.1% for all ASD's, 3.3% in males and 0.82% for females!

0.60% Autistic
0.93% PDD-NOS
0.57% Asperger

My hypothesis is confirmed. I've always said that Japan is an Aspie invention. It explains their anime, formalised social interaction, interest in technology, robots and low marriage rate crisis.

Article about incidence of the autism spectrum in Japan