Do you think that somebody else in your family has AS?

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I am the only one is my family with autism. The only reason I have is they f****d up when I was born.

Oooh yes Brandon.....genetics is the key!
My family is SWAMPED......I and ALL of my 5 kids are diagnosed. My two ex's are both on the spectrum!! Not diagnosed but hell it's that obvious.

Also BOTH my parents.....my half sister.........my grandparents.....and soo many eccentric aunts and uncles you can not believe! We always said our family was 'different', now it all makes soooo much sense!

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I recently realized that my mother was probably on the spectrum. Which would explain a lot about our lack of any mother/daughter relationship.

haha! I know what you mean to some extent. When I see my mom, it's more like visiting a friend or acquaintance-the emotional mom/daughter bond never fully happened due to both of us having trouble expressing things.

That... and we are both very set once we decide how things are going to happen and it creates a huge problem if we do not have mental images/ideas of the same things happening in a situation.

I think just about my entire family has AS.

What do you mean? That is so sad. I'm sure your family loves you.

My older NT sister.

I am almost certain my mom has it. Also, strong traits seem to exist on my dad's side of the family, but I don't think my dad has it persay...though he might have just worked very hard to compensate....He does have some quirks...

ive got the same issue, my mum wont accept she has AS. She thinks shes defective instead.

One Uncle definately was HFA .
Reckon that most of my family of origin are on the spectrum.....of aspiedom...most would be in denial..... I think some others like grandmother may have been also........other rellies ....yes.

Most of my family and my father's family of origin were considered weird.......and definately "dysfunctional".

By realising this I have become more compassionate towards the memory of my parents etc....it still doesn't make it any easier relating to aspie siblings...also am sure a niece is HFA and there is no way I could suggest this to her parents, her father, is my brother and he is very aspie and also HF, successful in his field....engineering.....world leader in research. Denial would be a fitting middle name for him. I have recently written him an email telling him about myself. He came to visit me for my birthday but made no mention of Asperger's.

Other sibling is most likely aspie an HF but is bipolar and is manipulative and a well versed liar...so it is very dangerous to maintain a relationship........has torn family apart for decades, pitting people against eachother.... don't understand this aspect as aspie so maybe just a brilliant bipolar manipulator!!???

Our home was the "home from hell" where fear and lack of communication reigned in each person's isolation....where nobody visited apart from a grandmother and occasional, like once every 5 years, a relative of my mother and her family. We never visited other people apart from grandparents at Christmas. A bunch of socially inept misfits....the bipolar one was the only "social being" in the family....

OH! God I've gone on and on......

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My father most likely has AS. He was born in the 1930s, and he is not diagnosed, though he did receive counseling as a child for unspecified social difficulties.
He is fascinated by history and current events, and when he gets started on talking about one of these topics, he doesn't usually seem to notice whether my mother and I are actually paying attention. He knows how to use the internet to search for articles on his special interests, but can't figure out how to send an e-mail.
My mother has complained that he takes more of an interest in reading the statistics in his almanacs than in dealing with the every day matters of life.
He was in his forties when he met my mother. When I tell this to people who haven't met him, they asked if he had been married before. The fact is, he never had a functional relationship before he met my mother.
He has a degree in journalism, and planned to become a journalist. However, he decided that he wasn't cut out for journalism after being fired from a few jobs in that field. He eventually found long-term employment with Associated Press as a photo librarian, cataloguing photos of historical and current events, and remained there until he reached retirement age.
Additionally, he always needs to sit in the same spot in my parents' living room.

Well what happen was when I born I should have been cut out of my mom (I came out blue).But The doc was a total f**k up.And did not do that. Now I am stuck with high functioning autism because of that epic fail.
At least I have a family that will always help take care of me. I just really hope nothing happens to them.I really need them!!

Yes, my dad. He officially has an OCD diagnosis, but I think that's incorrect. I have no AS or ASD diagnosis, but he regularly apologizes to me for giving me "our personality". My brother is similar but also much more socially adept than either of us. He is, in my mind, the best type of person - with strong logical ability, but also a strong ability to connect with other people and fit in with them. People like him. He is very successful in his life (happily married, 100+k income per year at only 30 years old, lots of friends and social respect), and for this reason I'm very jealous. He always hated how close my dad and I were because of our similarities, but he doesn't know that I'd take being him any day over being me.

Also, I don't know them well, but from my limited knowledge several of my aunts and uncles on my dad's side are also likely AS, and my grandfather most likely was as well. If the actual disorder doesn't run in the family, then the traits strongly do.

my mom:

-never talks about anything but herself
-has an addictive personality (alchoholic)
-can't stop thinking about traumatic thoughts from the past
-can't keep a job and after working somewhere for about a month, she decides she hates all the people there.
-is paranoid
-doesn't talk to anyone in her family anymore (including me)
-has gone through obsessive phases. (one of them was making poster sized colloges of pictures)
-has meltdowns
-is just like me minus the alchoholism and not being able to keep a job.

I would say there is a very high possibility.

my mother, I think, but it is too late to tell her...and maybe also my nephew, but my sister who is his mum doesn't react to anything I suggest about him.

My grandfather definitely has AS. I am very similar to him genetically, so there's no doubt that we both have AS. On my grandmother's side, she had "weird Uncle John" who I'm almost certain had AS, although the family blamed it on a childhood illness. My grandma may have been bipolar. And that's on my mom's side-my dad has paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar, which are related to autism. So yeah, it's almost 100% genetic.