Was one of your parents Autistic?

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I got to thinking about my mom possibly being Autistic but not near as Autistic as I am. When she was still alive there are 2 traits that many of us have. Since I learned more about stimming that cover any number of repetitive movements, I realize that my my use to stim almost constantly by moving her lower lip in and out all of the time. I would mention it too her and she would stop for a few seconds and start again. I don't even think she was aware of it.

The other thing she did was talk to herself all the time until she past away. I talked to myself and ran around in circles when I was a child, but I still stim even to this day. My stimming is with my objects. She may of had other traits, but apparently I found them pretty normal since I'm Autistic and didn't really pay any attention to them.

Also, according to what my mom said, my aunt who was about 10 years older was always doing bad things and blaming them on my mother when they both were kids. And because of that my grandparents would use excessive punishment on her. Just wasn't a happy time for my mom when she was a child, and Autism was unheard of by most of the population.

Does anyone with Autism or Aspergers have a parent that was Autistic too or at least have traits of Autism?

my dad was socially awkward. i think he may have had AS.

I'm the first autistic person in my extended family, but my parents had traits other than that which more often lead to autistic kids (like older parents, autoimmune problems, anxiety, and such)

My daughter is diagnosed on the spectrum. My son has ADHD and NVLD (which is very AS-like in his case).

I have ADD and am likely an AS shadow.

I believe my father probably has AS.

I believe my great grandfather probably had AS.

No They are NT's My mom is as NT as some one can be and so is my sister.

One of my brothers is very NT
One of my brothers I think has AS but not bad. But he will not go get tested. But I know he has AS.

Pretty much all of my family are very much NT. the only possible exception would be my grandad, but since grandma died he came out of his shell, and appears to be the socialite of the bingo club (something you couldn't catch him doing ever before, due to an apparent hatred of people, and anything social.)

Both my parents were in their 30's when I was born. Not too long ago I heard on a segment on mental health of the news that parents are more likely to have children with Autism. But, there is so many things that can bring about Autism in children which grow into Autistic adults.

Neither of my parents are on the Spectrum. My mother is an NT, my father is bipolar and paranoid schizophrenic. I have a strong suspicion that his father and his uncle are aspies. One is a hoarder who is utterly obsessed with planes (spends much of his life drawing, constructing, researching, and flying them, while the other was very inventive and had a penchant for weaponry (perhaps this is where I got it from), a fact I have only recently came to know after his death.

My father had autism and many types of depression runs in my mothers family

my dad is autistic. or severe NVLD. or something; he isn't diagnosed. his communication ability is effectively like five year old. my mom thought he was the quiet, intelligent type. she's kind of ADHD. circumstances are that that's so screwed up he will never see a shrink. I bet people don't believe that he could be almost 60 and never deal with it, but here, as long as you fill out all your beaurocratic paper crap and show up to work, people leave you alone.
there you go. take it. i don't care.

My mom has light sensitivity and also doesn't like to wear short shorts and doesn't like her bare skin touching furniture so she has to have long shorts that go down to her knees. Plus she says the TV is blaring when it's not. She also has a special interest with home and gardening and she says it's not her obsession because it doesn't take over her life. But she seems to like it a lot and spends her spare time with it working outside in the garden and likes to decorate things in her home. It's nothing excessive and she loves to watch those shows and I have seen her watch them often.


My dad on the other hand has poor social skills. He says inappropriate things, doesn't really think of others, lacks empathy it appears like, I don't know if he can read body language or not or verbal cues but he doesn't seem to pick up on when someone is getting pissed at him and he doesn't understand why my mom is so upset so he thinks it's her problem. He also has ADHD so he does pace and is hyper and impulsive and taps his foot.


But my dad thinks his mother had AS and she also had anxiety just like me. From what I have heard, she sounded more effected by it than me and my grandfather had to be like her caregiver and be protective of her. But as a child, I never noticed anything in her except she loved to be organized and whenever she find things that belonged to us, she put in a drawer in the entry way and she liked putting things in plastic bags. She even had a great memory too about her life. Plus the furniture was always the same spot in her home and rarely would there be a change and I can remember my mother saying "Your grandmother liked everything the same, didn't want change." But yet she did have friends in her childhood and she did have a job when she was young and she was a president of something in her high school.


My dad's brother could have it too. He just seems cold to me and is short tempered and also has anxiety. I didn't notice until I was 14 when I had to be with him for a few days. Then after that I decided I never wanted to be with him again.


My dad's uncle could have had it too but I will never know for sure. He was just a loner and didn't want friends and a relationship so he stayed single for life saying they were too much work. But it never bothered him. Plus he never socialized.

Both of my parents as well as my sister are all NTs. I have no problem with being the only Aspie in my family. I enjoy being different.

Neither of my parents are autistic... They are, however, both kind of introverted and quiet, but certainly not UNCOMFORTABLE when socialising.

My mums always been quiet and anti social, she hates how competitive most people are, whenever she's had friends she's always ended up cutting contact with them because she finds some reason she doesn't like them. She always got me when i explained why i didn't like certain people or didn't like doing certain things, she mostly always understood my point of view. She loves puzzle games, she has weird noise issues where she'll get stressed out in loud situations, her house has to be a certain way with regards to where everything is. She corrects people when they say something that isn't strictly true, it's like a gullibility where her flash response is that what you said is the exact thing that you meant and she just can't stop herself from saying. Which i like to make fun of :). I've got a cheeky sense of humour and nothing makes me laugh more than coming in and stating something which i know she'll correct.

I think she shuts down a little too. She doesn't deal with her problems. I've always tried to tell her that by not dealing with your problems today you just add them onto tomorrows problems but it's never quite sunk in. I've always wished i could help her.

Officially no but a recent talk with him has clearly shown he definitely has some symptoms, especially his perceived lack of affection and his obsessions (computers and photography at the moment) not to mention his introverted nature and preference for computers over people. My mother doesn't have many symptoms but has a strong sense of justice and an amazing memory so I guess I ended up getting characteristics from both.

If I had to guess, I would say Dad is an Aspie (but not as much as me) , Mom's a NT and my brother is definitely sub-clinical with slight AS tendencies. He has the 10% of AS symptoms I don't.

Both of my parents have autistic traits.
My father had more the social aspects and my mother has sensory problems.

But I don't think that they would recive a diagnoses and don't have any.

I'm diagnosed with HFA, my brother was very hyperactive as a child and my other brother was diagnosed with shizophrenia (but I'm thinking that he could've also been McDD).