By ''broody'' I mean wanting a baby.
Many family members tell me that I won't be able to cope with a baby, but there are loads of Aspie people with anxiety disorders that have babies, and they do just fine.
I'm in love with a man, and the plan is to move in with him this year, as soon as I can find a job, then we will get married. Then maybe in a couple of years time I will have a baby, if he's up for it (which he has said before that he wouldn't mind). He has three children of his own, all teenagers now, but don't live with him. So he knows what it's like to have babies.
The only thing is, ASD seems to be such a heredity condition, as there seems to be evidence of that when I come to Autism forums (ASD parent seem to have a child/children on the spectrum too), and also my boyfriend is in his 40's so that might be a higher risk of having an Autistic baby. But the faulty gene is on my side of the family, not his, as his family seem to be all NTs as far as I know (I've met most of them). If Autism genes could be passed down from the father's side then I'm safe, but I'm not so sure. Or it could skip a generation maybe. There's no way to tell.
It's not just ASD I'm afraid of, it's anything. I want my child to develop typically, make friends at school, have lesser chance of being isolated and bullied, go to mainstream school, and just be the way he or she is brought up to be.
And don't say I'm a bad parent just because I don't wish ASDs or other disabilities/challenges on to my own child. Most parents want their children to be normal, it doesn't mean everybody's a bad parent.
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