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How old were your parents?
Both in their 20s 28%  28%  [ 22 ]
Both in their 30s 30%  30%  [ 24 ]
Both in their 40s 5%  5%  [ 4 ]
Both in their 50s 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
Father in his 30s, Mother lower age 10%  10%  [ 8 ]
Father in his 40s, Mother lower age 9%  9%  [ 7 ]
Father in his 50s, Mother lower age 13%  13%  [ 10 ]
Mother in her 30s, Father lower age 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Mother in her 40s, Father lower age 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Mother in her 50s, Father lower age 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 79

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22 Mar 2013, 3:26 am

Both parents were in their early 20s. 21-22, I believe.



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22 Mar 2013, 6:56 am

Mom was 22 and Dad 25



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22 Mar 2013, 8:09 am

Mom was 35, Dad I'm not sure, but probably late 40s/early 50s. When my one son was born, I was 34 and so was his dad. My other son, I was 42 and his dad was 45. But my mom had older parents. She was the youngest of 10. There is a pattern of older parents in my family.


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22 Mar 2013, 8:20 am

Mom 19, Dad 21



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22 Mar 2013, 11:31 am

The option both in their 60's seems to be missing here.



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22 Mar 2013, 11:35 am

I couldn't vote, as my parents' age combination isn't in the list. My mother was 41, and my father was 67 when I was born. And I was my mother's first & only pregnancy... Lucky I'm even here; autism or otherwise!

The both died when I was in my early 20s; my father of old-age, and my mother of diabetes.


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22 Mar 2013, 11:38 am

Short sighted of me not to add 60+... my apologies

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My mother was 27, my father was 40.

I don't believe that parents age is a factor, simply because until we know what causes autism we can't be sure - I don't think it's fair to imply fault of parents for having children later in life.


Given the results of this poll, me neither.

I thought the results would validate the research, now it looks like any other autism research - total bollocks.


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22 Mar 2013, 11:47 am

(Addendum to earlier post)
I had heard that an older father is a factor increasing the chances of autism, which in my case is true... I hadn't heard anything about the mother's age.

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22 Mar 2013, 1:05 pm

My mum was 25, my dad was 29. But I still had to be born a freak. *sigh*.


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22 Mar 2013, 2:05 pm

CORRECTION: I cast my vote of both my parents being in their forties, but I thought the question was asking how old they are now, not when they had me. :oops:

The correct answer would be they both were in their twenties when they had me. Mom turned twenty-two a couple of months later, and Dad was going to be twenty-five that June.



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22 Mar 2013, 2:19 pm

I didn't read the thread properly, so voted for how old they are now. Oops...sorry!

They were in their late 20s.



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22 Mar 2013, 4:34 pm

My mom was 28, and I think my dad was about the same age.



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22 Mar 2013, 4:38 pm

Twenty and ninteen


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22 Mar 2013, 11:34 pm

I was the youngest of three kids. My Mom was 26 when I was born and my Dad was 29. (I picked the wrong choice, btw...my Dad is 30 years older than me for half the year, so I picked Dad in my 30s and Mom younger. It just dawned on me he was actually still 29 when I was born.)


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23 Mar 2013, 12:26 am

Oops ,I voted how old they were now(40s), but proper answer would be that they were in their thirties when I was born