Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:We hope to see you as a part of our community soon! Please also check us out @ https://www.twitter.com/aspiescentral
Thank you1% 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.
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.
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.