Do you have parents who are NT???

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I never saw any signs of Autism or Asperger's in my parents. Both are very sociable, their not shy like me, and they can speak clearly. After reading a book on AS, it says that it was is most ways a hereditary condition. So I wonder why I still have it. Their were probably other factors that contributed.

My parents are both NT. I honestly think it maybe genetic, but chances of it being passed on are rare. Might be a fluke in DNA, but either way, it really doesn't matter. I have AS, and have been dealing with it just fine.

Both of my parents are NT. They tried so desperately to get me to grow up, to be like them, with very poor results. I've ended up being my own person, quirks, obsessions and all, and I'm happy that I've ended up, the way that I am.

I honestly don't know. They both obviously have a few traits, but said traits are so insignificant or removed from what I experience that they might as well not even be there.

My mom is NT and my dad has aspie traits and he has ADHD. My mom has a very few traits such as light senstivity or being sensitive to noise like the TV being on. She always claims it's on too loud when it's not and she has taken my jokes too literal. That's about it. Oh she has a special interest, gardening and home decorating. That's what I saw her watch on TV all the time and about ten percent of the time, it was something else.

"Genetic" can also get more complicated than just one or both of one's parents' obvious traits, going back to grandparent(s), great-grandparent(s), or signs manifested in uncles, aunts, cousins -- i.e., picked-up from one or more distant common ancestors. Sometimes you can even get two recessive genes together, in neither of which person were there any signs, and combined they produce something 'full-blown.'

This applies to any kind of genetic trait, not necessarily Autism/A.S. My brother and I have blond hair, but I can't name a blond ancestor, though we have blond(e) aunts and cousins. May be a "throwback" trait that's been hiding in our family's gene pool for numerous generations until just the right combinations or mutations brought it back out in the open. (I suspect he'd also be as Aspie as I am, though not in the same ways!)

My mother I'm pretty sure is Aspie, but it's not "over-the-top," just like mine isn't, though mine is more strongly Aspie. Dad has an MR sister; connected? Science doesn't know for sure. Mom says her whole family are/were "frustrated intellectuals;" we're from Lower-Working-Class, so my generation was the first to complete college, and me only thanks to Student Loans.

All of my immediate family are NT, but my mom does have her quirks (she tested NT on the online autism tests), my grandfather may have been affected a bit, but he was a social inventor. I believe that my nephew has mild Asperger's. That leaves me, I'm the one who has classic autism.

Both of my parents are NT and my older brother and I are both autistic. My mother and father have slight Aspie traits with my mother having more traits but they would both pass as NT's.

According to that fount of truth, Wikipedia, about 10% of cases of autism are the result of spontaneous mutations. In other words - a person may not have inherited their ASD, but any children they might have stand a good chance to inherit it ... so you might be the first of a new line of Aspies in your family tree. Perhaps.

The genetics of autism are very complicated. Although they think up to 90% of ASD is genetic, they have only found genes that explain 40% of it ... so far.

Besides new mutations and recessive genes, there is also the phenomenon of "epigenetics": some genes have to be switched on. So person A gets some Aspie genes, but nothing might happen. Person B gets the same Aspie genes in slightly different circumstances, and the genes switch on and they have the symptoms. We may have mapped a human genome, but that doesn't mean we understand it all yet.

Moral: you cannot do genetics just by looking at your parents.

My parents are not NT,actually.

I am the only known Aspie in my family. everyone else either has ADHD or is Neurotypical