Lwaxy
Cute but dangerous
The groups I hang out/used to hang out with, it was probably more than 25%, talking the more serious hobbyists here (those going to conventions, marathon film nights, astronomy workshops, model train meetings, gathering monthly/weekly for trek dinners, X-phile meetups, LARPS, creative weekends etc).
The very first D&D group a friend and me started while still in school definitely had 4 geeks/nerds on spectrum and 2 mostly normal kids. My Star Trek group in London was completely Aspie save one family, including 2 dxed people. My recent SW club was slightly less so, it seems to be more like 4 out of 10, and strangely enough, the supposedly totally normal part of that group tends to show bullying tendencies which caused me and some others to leave. They had probably enough of us. The close Star Trek LARP/RPG group I went with a while ago definitely had 2 more people besides me on spectrum, too. The card and board game group meeting up a few times a year, at least 4 others (out of about 30).
In my online spectrum groups, many spectrumites also qualify as nerds/geeks. A poll on one site claimed that 90% of the users would consider themselves such.
I'd consider that a big percentage.
If you read online articles (not that I agree with all of them) regarding nerds/geeks on the rise and similar stuff, you'll see they usually do not delve too deep in but grab a Trekker/gamer/computer programmer as a nerd/geek example because, according to one writer who answered my inquiry about that, those areas spectrumites are more accepted and it is often within their special interests, so it is easier to find them there.
The very first D&D group a friend and me started while still in school definitely had 4 geeks/nerds on spectrum and 2 mostly normal kids. My Star Trek group in London was completely Aspie save one family, including 2 dxed people. My recent SW club was slightly less so, it seems to be more like 4 out of 10, and strangely enough, the supposedly totally normal part of that group tends to show bullying tendencies which caused me and some others to leave. They had probably enough of us. The close Star Trek LARP/RPG group I went with a while ago definitely had 2 more people besides me on spectrum, too. The card and board game group meeting up a few times a year, at least 4 others (out of about 30).
In my online spectrum groups, many spectrumites also qualify as nerds/geeks. A poll on one site claimed that 90% of the users would consider themselves such.
I'd consider that a big percentage.
If you read online articles (not that I agree with all of them) regarding nerds/geeks on the rise and similar stuff, you'll see they usually do not delve too deep in but grab a Trekker/gamer/computer programmer as a nerd/geek example because, according to one writer who answered my inquiry about that, those areas spectrumites are more accepted and it is often within their special interests, so it is easier to find them there.