Are your Parents Aspergery?

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I just read this article that hypothesizes that "geeks and freaks" are meeting and producing Aspergery offspring. My parents both have apsergery traits, but neither could be diagnosed. My dad, possibly. I am a lot like him, and I don't think he and I have ever made eye contact. He likes parts of things too. My mom has minimal traits, if any. I am diagnosed, as is my nephew.
Does any one else have aspergery parents?
Oops - forgot an entry for both - sorry

A big fat NO. Although some of my more distant relatives have.

I have noticed in a couple people I know that an Asperger Type parent paired with an ADHD/ADD Type parent can often produce an ASD kid. Though this is just my personal experience. However, there has just been one parent Aspie and a nonAspie/ADHD partner who have produced an ASD offspring.

I can't recall where I read/heard it, but ADHD/ADD has some genes in common with Autism.

My mother shows traits of ADD and my dad was pure Aspie (albeit undiagnosed).

I just read a research study done on familial High-Functioning ASDs. It concurs with studies done in the past that a higher percentage of HF Autties seem to have gotten it from their families.

I'm not much like my parents in the social life department. My dad might have traits, I never knew him very well. Grandfather might have, and some other people on my mother's side as well. Looking at my family, AS might skip a generation.

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I have mentioned before here about my own suspicions of my parents

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... sc&start=0

My Dad has traits. I only tried to suggest this to him once. He's not open to the possibility of me having AS either. The best way to approach it is that my personality is "a chip off of the old block", though he refuses to make the logical deduction of what that means about him.

My father is ADD, pure and simple. He has no problem talking to people at all, and is known for being very nice and social. He can't clean or hang up the keys, etc.

My mother is normal, although a lot of ahem, interesting people on her side of the family.

My Mom has Asperger's,OCD,and some sort of depression while my Dad is dyslexic.My sister is showing signs of Asperger's or ADHD.

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Both my parents have their own different form of ADD/ADHD.

Neether has traits that ive notist, but my mums semi-dislexic

Both of my parents have traits (that should have been an option), but my mother has more than my father, so I put her down. Except she has absolutely no logic in her head at all...

Why did I vote?

My parents both have one or two traits each, but it's not very obvious, except to people who are constantly around them (AKA me and my siblings).

The poll forgot to include "both" as an answer.

My parents are in their 60s and 70s. When I told my mother I suspected I was aspie she did the research and said that her symptoms matched mine almost exactly. I went on to get a formal diagnosis but she doesn't figure it will make much difference at her age. When I told my father I was diagnosed with AS and ADD he just said "I think I have some of that" but didn't really elaborate so I don't know if he was referring to the AS or the ADD. It was probably the ADD as he's been very curious about my medication. My brother is very similar to me in a lot of ways, although he was also more oppositional-defiant when we were kids. His daughter hasn't been diagnosed yet but is showing some obvious AS characteristics. I guess they'll find out for sure when she starts school.

Both of my parents have some traits of Asperger's syndrome, but neither has a pervasive developmental disorder of any kind.