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After finding DS1 has AS I research the topic and find that I also seem to have it and feel guilty to have passed it on. Was totally blindsided today when I heard the school now also suspects DS2 has an ASD. I hate my genes

I know how you feel I didn't know till I was 30 by then my middle son inherited the genes for for it. To make maters worse he also inherited the genes from his mother for a degenerative nerve disorder. So believe me I really know how you feel. Here is a question for you is he happy in general?
Do you think he would be happier with NTs for parents that have no clue what is going on treating him for conditions that he doesn't have? Things go wrong but could all ways be worse.

Thanks Johnny77. Yes, we are all happy as a family, so thank you for helping put things into perspective.

I can relate. Through all my troubles in this life I was so proud and a little arrogant about my three bright wonderful sons. Now grown, oldest has a heart issue and food issues contributing to weight which I fear will cut his life short, middle one suffers from profound depression and hasn't had a full time job in over two years, has a wife and three kids, and feels buried, and last December youngest had a psychotic break (he has been living with his dad for 9 years) and well all were thinking he was just a slacker twentysomething (quit school a couple of years ago, no job etc) and it turns out he may have been on the downward slide and that was why he was having problems, and now is officially diagnosed as schizophrenic. Damn my genes, or my sins, or fate or whatever.