Parents/ Grandparents into maths/ science/ engineering?

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I would also like to reitrate..that although I feel dumb compared to my dad's side of the family...i was not trying to imply that my mom's side of the family is dim or anything....
Compared to both sides...I seemed to get the fuzzy end of the lollipop in my entire family when it comes to executive function and social interraction and whatnot...
Somewhere in my gene pool are really great eccentric mathematics people who build things.....It all just sorta skipped me.

My father's an electrical engineer and a total wiz with technology. From what I know of his childhood he certainly showed some AS tendencies.

You don't inherit math or the like, but you can inherit an ability or proclivity to the fields. Therefore, all you need for success in that area is to be introduced to it to make that ability apparent. And since many people tend to go into fields they're good at, it stands to reason there may be more engineers and scientists in the families of autistics if indeed those talent areas are associated with ASC.

As for the thread: My father was a computer engineer. He designed OS for military defensive weapons with Boeing.

My maternal great grandfather was an engineer and he was involved in designing stuff like canals.

Some great uncle somewhere on my mother's side I believe was a chemist.

For myself, I am going into the sciences albeit that which is considered a "softer" science, Psychology, but my interest is mainly in neurology and research, so I will be getting my degree in Experimental.

My grandfather was physics teacher, but taught other science, physics was his main thing.

My father was in the merchant mariens and later worked in the feild of nuclear engineering. He was sent to 3 mile island in 1979 and currently is a supervisor for many of these newer nuclear engineers at the second oldest nuclear facility in the US.

My mother having lived with such simple people for years, adopted their narrow minded way of perceiving the world and bad habits (lack of tolerance - even though she herself claims something else, bad hygiene and not too high intellectual ambitions). I like reading forums for parents and their way of bringing up their children is quite different, they realize that exposing them to new knowledge and so on has a great importance for their intellectual development. My mother bought me books, here I can't complain, but it's everything, I'd say. She never reads anything more than love stories and "The bold and the beautiful" belongs to her favourite series. When talking to her friends from the village she comes from, she uses that terrible dialect because as she claims herself, they'd think she looks down on them, despising them. When I was 6 we moved, settling in a town when I had an occasion to find out that people normally don't use dialect and I could say I was a lucky one having read so many books from which I learned how to speak correctly - this way nobody laughed at me.

In my country people so uneducated and stupid are mostly those very old people without education or Gypsies whose daughters usually give birth to their first child at the age of 12-15 and who in many cases are able to speak only their own language.

My paternal grandfather was an engineer. My father well was pretty good with math, I suck at math, so does my mother.

I was adopted so I don't know about my parents. I'm not inclined toward science or math at all. Just language. The paper that described my (teen) mom said she was "artistic" and had an 8th grade education. She's an Indian and lived in the hills. My dad was in the Army, stationed in West Germany so he may have had some engineering/science job/vocation.

My husband is artistic. His mom is kind of artistic, more like crafty. His dad is a waste case, it's impossible to know what his vocation could have been. His maternal grandma was a good baker and terrible cook. She corrected or proofread math books for 20 years as a job. That would be rather Aspie-ish. His grandfather was a baker before he was disabled in WWII. His paternal line of ancestors devoted themselves to drink and family abandonment.

I should have also said that I felt like I was expected to be good at and enjoy math and science because my family did. My 2 brothers (one definitely aspie, one possibly Aspie) both work in computer technology. I was considered 'gifted' so I thought that meant that I was supposed to be good at everything. I took a lot of classes in school that I wasn't good at and hated, just because I felt that I was expected to. It really sent me on the wrong path in life, but I didn't realize that until recently and now I seem to have hit a dead-end.

My Father, who initially went to MIT, has a PhD in both electrical and mechanical engineering. He is truly a genius and exhibits behaviors of someone w/ AS. I sincerely believe that he is an undiagnosed aspie! He was always inventing new gadgets at home. Back in the 70's, he was building his own computers and lie detectors (don't ask). Just as I am, he is quite eccentric! He's my hero!! !