Do you have a family member who has AS or autism?

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i have a 3rd cousin with classical autism but he is adopted

My cousin has an official diagnosis. Her brother's daughter may be autistic (too young to tell) and her sisters son may be an aspie too. All on the same side of the family. Im the only one in my immediate family though and I think Im borderline.

Fairly certain I get my AS from my father, via my grandmother. Also, my brother has a touch of it, though he took "the test" and was proclaimed mostly normal.

Convinced my daughter is high functioning (HFA) and my son probably has AS.

There are a lot of aspie-like people in my family. None of them have an official diagnosis that I know of, but I bet at least a few of them would qualify for one.

Autistic traits and introversion run in my mom's side of the family, though my mom is NT. I have a great-aunt that my mom suspects has AS.

My mum and maternal grandfather have AS.

My family is basically made up of artists, scientists and introverts - who later marry extroverts. I was due eventually.
Ghost effects I know, not totally sure on full blown AS though.

Autistic daughter, and my Dad for sure, and my Mom highly suspected.

I suspect both my mum and dad but I can't be sure. Sometimes they seem very likely to be aspie and then others not.
I'm sure that my uncle (on my mum's side) was an aspie, but I only came to this realization after he died (about 2 years go). Thinking back on my time spent with him, his life and what people would say about him, I'm sure he was autistic. I just wish I could have spoken with him about it...

No one in our family talks about autism, if they know it's not mentioned. Any weird behaviors are ignored, which would explain why he, my mother and I were never diagnosed. We just don't live in a community that accepts that sort of thing.

Other than that I don't really know about anyone else. I kinda think my little (2nd) cousin could. He's turning five and is a little aspie like... I've thought about my grandma (mum's side) but can't be sure. My whole family is very quiet, introverted and subdued. The genes could easily be floating around.

ADD also runs in the family.

My father is an aspie [undiagnosed]. He refuses to see anyone about it but since he functions fairly well apart from a few addiction issues, no one really forces him into the conversation about it. I don't live with him anyway so rarely see him.
My great-grandmother was suspected [as an adult] to have some form of autism. Although she was never diagnosed with anything.
My cousin [5 years old] shows some traits of AS but nothing really of "concern". She flaps, has sensory issues with clothing and food and is "gifted".

I am the only person [as far as I know] diagnosed with AS in my family.

It's what I wrote here once about this issue:

I know only my kinsmen on the distaff side. My grandfather seemed to have some aspie traits, I mean he was extremely taciturn, he liked being alone and he was rather quickly to get offended and when it happened (for example when he had had a quarrel with my grandmother) he was so irritated that he didn't eat at all for several days. But I don't think that he had AS, it's only some traits. I would also have suspicions concerning my uncle who died when I was 8 but he was much too gregarious and sociable to be an aspie. Even as a schoolboy he was said to be more intelligent than most of his teachers. He never married but on the other hand it could be caused by the fact that he had a physical disability - as a young man he underwent an unsuccessful opperation which made him almost blind. No, I don't think that somebody of my family is/was one of us. They had only some traits but it's not the same.

My 10 year old son has an official diagnosis of autism; he was early-intervention diagnosed at ~3. He's somewhere in LFA/MFA land; I would not call him non-verbal since he babbles most constantly, but his auditory centers are scrambled enough so that verbal communication with him is not very functional; he is not unintelligent; he is terribly clumsy under some circumstances, but surprisingly graceful under others. He loves hugs and people and activities (he loves Home Depot); like his dad, he ain't your garden variety autie.

He's the only official diagnosis in my family; I'm self-diagnosed via the "Duh." criteria (and am entirely uninterested in making it "official"). One of my younger sisters probably has some Aspie traits, but I have never asked her about it. I'd place my father in the same boat. My son's mom does not seem even slightly autistic to me, but she does have OCD (her and her family), which manifests itself in my son and helps compound some autistic tendencies.

Good fortune,

- Icarus knows there is a genetic component...