Is it genetic for you?

Post Reply New Topic

It seems to do more with hormones in my case.

I am absolutely convinced in my family that it is hereditary. My father displayed severe social deficiencies (probably at least mild AS), I more than likely have AS (just not dx'ed yet), my son has PDD-NOS (basically it amounts to mid-functioning autism), my brother displays some symptoms of AS, one of his sons was diagnosed with ADHD and now it looks like his other son has AS. It seems to only present itself with males from my fathers bloodline. No evidence at all on my mothers side of the family and my wife's family doesn't have any signs of ASD either.

I think AS is genetic but no one else in my family has it.

My father probably has Asperger's.

My mother's side of the family has quite a few shut-ins.

I'm still in the process of trying to work out if I have AS or not, although all the tests seem to suggest it, and I am becoming more and more sure.

The more I read about ASD the more I think my father has aspie traits. He was very solitary during my childhood. Remote, intellectual. He had no friends, his reactions to situations and people seemed different to others'. Several very focussed interests. Hated the sun and liked to stay indoors. He also seemed very paranoid, but I'm not sure if that's an aspie trait or not.

My parents were both very different to other children's parents, and my life was also very different to most of my classmates. In fact his brothers were quite similar, my mum used to have interesting conversations I would listen to, with my aunts, about how 'different' the men they had married were.

My half sister, on my Dad's side, has dyscalculia, dyslexia and dyspraxia.

My Dad's mother died when I was a baby, but I know she had psychological problems in her life, and was hospitalised after my father's birth. He and his younger brother were raised by an aunt. My father's uncle was also unable to work due to psychiatric/psychological problems, and lived with his sister all his life. He was listed as an instrument maker's apprentice when he was sixteen. I don't know what they would be diagnosed with today, but they were severely impacted by their problems.

My mother's family I don't know too much about. My grandfather was troubled and got into 'sticky' situations with the law and authority generally. My grandmother certainly made some strange choices, and was difficult to get to know. There's a lot of digestive disorders on that side, that both my mother and I suffer from too. My aunt and cousins have Crohn's disease.

I've gone on too much, sorry.

My father probably could be diagnosed, and his parents have some traits too.

I'm all but sure now, after he's gone, that my father was an autistic savant. He was a card counter, which I've only recently learned is a common 'splinter talent' with savants. He was a fabulous piano player and could really pick up just about any musical instrument and play it well. He never had many friends and was mostly a quiet homebody. He liked to play cards a lot, and no wonder, when he always won.

My mother's side has some interesting characters in it as well. Two of my uncles went a bit loony, and both of them were doctors. I have another uncle that seems pretty well adjusted, but every time I see him he is stimming like crazy. I wonder if that's where I got my nose tick.

Closer to home, only one of my brothers was diagnosed with anything as a child, with ADD. Just shows you how bad they were at catching that sort of thing back then. Both of my sisters were pretty far out there. They never really had a good diagnosis, everyone has just called them emotionally disturbed. One is passed away now because she wouldn't take care of her diabetes. The other brother, now that I know what I'm looking at, is surely an Aspie, but with no compensating talents. At least I seem to have inherited a few skills and talents from my father. No luck for the rest of them.

My dad has some traits. When I brought up the possibility of AS to my parents he told me that he has had trouble with eye contact and knowing when it's his turn to talk. He has had trouble with depression.

My mom has been diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. She has seen many shrinks (mostly because of me I think).

My brother and sister seem very NT though.

I haven't been officially diagnosed yet (going next week) but am 90% sure I have AS or HFA.

Yes but I think environment/pollution plays a big part as to the best of my knowledge there's no one on the spectrum from my parents generation, then I have a cousin and myself who are Aspie (plus a few who are bi-polar) but we both also coincidentally are the only ones to have had weird non-genetic birth defects which screams pollution to me, and we both have autistic sons ... yet I see where genetics plays a part too because she had 3 N/T children by an N/T father and her autistic son is from an anxiety/OCD father, which my partner and the father of my autistic son also is.

My father claims to have symptoms of it (undiagnosed), but I don't really see it.
That being said, his grandfather (died when I was twelve, so I was around him a lot) was surely an Aspie. He had a slightly monotone voice; odd posture; he was obsessed with science and history (especially physics and flight); he hardly made small-talk; he mostly wanted to converse on his life, science, space travel, history; he was basically an encyclopedia; in school, he often disregarded the teachers' instructions and went off to perform his own experiments... Very eccentric and scientific. He was married to my great-grandmother for sixty years until her death in 1999 (and he had two children, both of which have some AS traits) and he re-married after her death, and he was married to his second wife until his death in 2007.
His son had various sensory problems and was very intellectual, scientific and quirky... then his son, my dad's cousin, is the same way.
My grandmother has a few traits.
Lalalalala... all of this on my dad's side.
Mom's side is very neurotypical.

My brother has "low-functioning autism" or PDD. I have Aspergers. No one else in the family is diagnosed, but it is easy to see some aspie-like traits in the family on both sides.