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

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Number one son and one of my grandsons (possibly).

ruveyn

Both my son and mother have Autistic Disorder, but it's not a suspicion, they're both diagnosed.

Yes, I theorize that possibly my great-grandfather and my grandmother both on my mom's side most likely had AS even though there is no scientific proof to make of this notions, I still can recognize a great deal of traits during the time my grandmother was alive and all.2nd, my great-grandfather, he had been shown to have AS in terms of historical references and other sources within the family and all. Actually, I've always believed there has been a genetic component in how some not all people develop AS..

My Mum killed herself when she was fortythree, and I think was undiagnosed aspie. She was a late speaker, but published author, self taught linguist (Latin, Russian, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali) and self taught pianist. In fact, she had to teach herself to read and write when she was twelve, because nobody had bothered up to that time.

My Grandma also had many aspie traits, insanely talented musician, though she'd never received any instruction, photographic memory.

Her Dad... by all accounts a very strange, driven, single minded man, so possibly, but I don't know so much about him.

My maternal grandfather, polyglot, despite no formal education, musically self taught, ambidextrous... seemed to be NT though.

My Dad has an official IQ of 168, and you'd think he'd be aspie, but he's as NT as they come. One of his uncles on the other hand was a polymath genius and chess correspondent, who must have been autie from all that is said of him.

My son is diagnosed aspie, dyspraxic. I'm diagnosed autie, dyspraxic, dyscalculic. My son's IQ is over 160, mine is over 150.

My son's father is diagnosed aspie. His IQ is in the 160s. (He was tested twice, once he got 172, but he swears it was a glitch.) He's a tone deaf polymath, whereas I'm just a musical polyglot. My son appears to have inherited the best of both of us, perfect pitch, and annoyingly brilliant at everything.

My son's paternal grandmother is also aspie, as was her Dad.

So, in other words... I think it's more like figuring out who in my family isn't on the spectrum. So far, I'd say my Dad isn't. Either that or he's brilliant enough that he just learned to fake it.

Very likely, although different people to different extents and with different symptoms. I have more problems resulting from it than most of the rest of my family, though.
My dad is very honest and has the tendency to tell the president of his company that he's an idiot. He's had the same job for many years because he's very good at it, but people who don't know or care what they're doing don't like him because he tells them that they don't know what they're doing. He also has the tendency to go on and on and not notice when someone has no clue what he's talking about, and get angry if someone tries to point out that they don't know what he's talking about. But other than that, he's a good conversationalist.
My mom's facial expressions are completely incongruent with her actual feelings, and she has some of the repetitive movement stuff, like trichillotillomania. She also never had a boyfriend until my dad. And, like me, was too much of a geek to make friends even in band. Most of the friends she has are people she still knows from high school (or even earlier.) although she has a few who are more recent-- but mostly stemming from obsessions, like math and Buddhism. I'm not completely sure to what extent they're aspie-type special interests or to what extent they're just normal interests, though.

My maternal grandfather was very likely an aspie. I was fairly young when he died, but it seems like a distinct possibility from what I've been told.

A lot of others, I'm just not sure.. there are also lots of things I'm just too dense to notice.

Yes, i believe my nephew may have it. I have voiced my concerns about his immaturity, odd behaviors and such, they think i am full of it. He has an intolerance for my son (AS) as he doesn't understand him. I want him to read a book to help him understand my son (and maybe make a self discovery!) He's 17.

Appreciate all of the replies yall. It makes you wonder how different your family may be from other families but not ever realizing it. For example my family don't go out much. We mostly only visited my grandparents and my mom's sisters.

A few on my mum's side of the family are a bit aspie-ish. My brother has quite a few traits but not enough for a DX he's just on the very edge, my grandad (mum's dad) has got to be one but he's never heard of AS, my uncle (mum's brother) has some traits aswell so me, him and my mum often joke and banter about us all being an aspie family. My mum's convinced she's on there somewhere but I doubt it, except for the time when we were in the car and the windows were open she goes "look a blind person!" dead loud to my brother and sister when this blind man walked past.

Well, on a further exploration into this topic, I'd go as far to say, that my aunt on my dad's side whom passed away 9yrs back most likely had Aspergers for, often I can recall many of her unique quirks if you'd like to call them as such..Honestly, there probably have been more people within the spectrum in my family that I'm probably not aware of.
Sincerely, I'll admit that I've had trouble over the years when it comes to socializing and all though, I've not become hermitic from it rather have learned what I'm good at and where I'm hindered somewhat in a most sincere manner of wording such..In conclusion I feel that in some ways a family may have within it various members displaying a range of autistic traits as, I can recall seeing a program where a family had 6 children all whom had differing autistic spectrum disorders therefore, I feel that can be the same in other families too..

I think my mom and uncle have autistic traits, but I wouldn't classify them as autistic.