AS and having children

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genetics ftw!

i am NT. i have 3 sons, two with an autistic father and one with an NT father.
of the two with an autistic father, one is completely NT and one is autistic.
of the one with an NT father, he is somewhere in between.

i havent figured out the genetics yet =) my oldest, the one with the NT father, shares a lot of traits with my youngest, the autistic with the autistic father. my oldest has sensory issues, rocks, has boundary issues, an extremely picky eater, oppositional, overly moralistic, resistant to change, clumsy, executive dysfunction, and auditory processing problems.

the oldest is being evaluated this fall at his school, if he turns out to be on the spectrum i will be completely baffled.

AMEN!! ! Aspies have brought us great things. I do hear the conservative commentators yapping about how we're creating a burden on taxpayers by having disabled children, but honestly, I dream of teaching my kid(s) how to throw a baseball, taking them to soccer practicee, and the other little joys of having spawn.

Even if your child was born with Asperger's, who says your child would grow up like you did

You seem to be expressing a caring disposition toward your future children.

There is a lot that you could do for your child to make sure that he or she did NOT grow up like you, CBT, simple understanding and even (Heaven forbid for an Aspie) some 'empathy'.

You can't go back and change your life and neither can I, but we can make a real difference to our children if they happen to have AS.

I detest children and am avoding having them at all costs. I think I would loose it with my kids and serverly injury or even kill them. I have meltdowns due to other people's kids and am always tempted to smack them upside their heads so I don't think I'd make a good mother.

I tend to want to do this too, but when I think about it, these children's parents aren't even good parents anyways, and that's why the kid is acting like that...

Children also give me PTSD flashbacks.

:/ Yea I can see your point about not wanting kids then...