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1% of the world's population is still a great many (though I suspect that there are many more people out there who have autism & remain undiagnosed--personally I think the numbers are going to be shockingly high if they were ever really revealed, especially in other countries or on society's fringes.)

You're special because you're the one original BongoMan just like everyone else in the world is a unique, unrepeatable example of themselves. Disorders, disabilities, statistics, paperwork--not an iota of this matters in the end of it all; you're unique because you are you & so is everybody else out there. Life is pretty fantastic.
 
Gerontius said:
1% of the world's population is still a great many (though I suspect that there are many more people out there who have autism & remain undiagnosed--personally I think the numbers are going to be shockingly high if they were ever really revealed, especially in other countries or on society's fringes.)

You're special because you're the one original BongoMan just like everyone else in the world is a unique, unrepeatable example of themselves. Disorders, disabilities, statistics, paperwork--not an iota of this matters in the end of it all; you're unique because you are you & so is everybody else out there. Life is pretty fantastic.
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Thank you :)
 
Gerontius said:
1% of the world's population is still a great many (though I suspect that there are many more people out there who have autism & remain undiagnosed--personally I think the numbers are going to be shockingly high if they were ever really revealed, especially in other countries or on society's fringes.)

You're special because you're the one original BongoMan just like everyone else in the world is a unique, unrepeatable example of themselves. Disorders, disabilities, statistics, paperwork--not an iota of this matters in the end of it all; you're unique because you are you & so is everybody else out there. Life is pretty fantastic.
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Depends on what study he got the 1% from, the good studies will test every single child in a given population sample for learning/developmental disabilities, since every single one of them is scanned for autism it's unlikely that some children with autism are not being counted. The 1-2% figure is probably accurate.
 
Depends on where you are at and their current diagnostic criteria or even if anyone even cares. But the number is closer now to 1 in 50 in some places.
 
I think that as there's more awareness, diagnosis, and access to diagnoses, we'll see a prevalence rate of about 2.5% or so overall, as we are already seeing in some jurisdictions with active screening of children. But there are still many who for various reasons will "slip through" and might only become aware of the possibility of being on the spectrum through chance as an adult, if they do.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (Ofner et al., 2018), the combined prevalence among children and youth aged 5-17 in Canada, in the year 2015, is 1 in 42 among males, 1 in 165 among females, with a total result of 1 in 66 overall. Incidence rates have been steadily increasing, with the increase generally attributed to increased awareness, better diagnostic tools, as well as a broadening of what falls under the ASD umbrella as per the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which now includes previously separate diagnoses such as Asperger’s Syndrome and PDD-NOS. The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (2021) at UBC reports that the overall prevalence rate in British Columbia as of February 2020 to be 1 in 40. However, many autistic adults remain undiagnosed, and members of some demographics, such as those residing in rural areas, face additional barriers to obtaining a diagnosis and supports, and so the statistics cited in this paper are invariably impacted as such.
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Source: Au, K. (2022). Call for the Federal Public Service to create an initiative to recruit and hire employees with Autism. The Canadian Journal of Autism Equity, 2(1), 11–17.
 
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