Is your AS inherited?

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Aspergers has never been documented in my family because it's still fairly new so I could have had family members who had it but never knew it. I think my father has small traces of it because he was shy and quiet like me but he was not not completely socially impaired like I am.

If there were a real test for it (a failproof test), my dad took it, and it was negative, I'd eat my own hand. That man has got to have AS.

However, he's never seen anyone about it.

My son (clone?) is like me. My father, grandfather, and two brothers are have (or had for granda) the traits and the troubles, but not the diagnosis. One of my brothers might as well have "apsie" printed on his forehead. My sister seems typical; her son is HFA (is this term okay?), and I have diagnosed her husband as a jerk.

I'm the only one in my family who's diagnosed. My dad and five of his six siblings- as well as his parents- probably have Asperger's. They're all happy astronauts who constantly seem either oblivious or mildly surprised. My mom's side of the family is ragingly neurotypical (touchy-feely, emotionally effusive), but my maternal grandfather certainly has some symptoms, and maybe the entire disorder. The problem is, Asperger's wasn't recognized until not too long ago. So most older Aspies have escaped diagnosis.

Only autistic person in this family.

Only person with any mental and neurological disorders in the wide family too.

It is so strange.

I propose that mine is inherited.
My mother is very AS'ish. MY father has traits and was very shy as a young man but managed.
I have an uncle on my father's side also (a great uncle) who was seelctivelymute - barely ever talked, had the autistic stare, and spent all his time with birds and animals. He finally married in his late 50's and until that time lived my granny and grandfather and their kids.
i have a nephew dx'ed HFA.
I have an elder brother who is most likely AS bit undx'ed.
i have another brother who wonders that he may be ADHD. He has executive function issues, is in his 50's and has never had kids. He has some friends, but is perpetually adolescent.


lots of traits in our family and various expressions of ASD.

I am actually possibly less ASish than my mom. She is the one I take after the most. It seems...but there is quite a bit of neuro-eccentricness on both sides of my family. There are lots of inventors, architechts and engineers on my dad's side...as well as various relatives who demonstrated ASD traits in various degrees of severity...My grandfather and his brother are examples.
I am somewhat dull in comparison...

lots of spectrum type traits in my family....my grandmother seems to have the trait of saying inappropriate things...and her eye contact seems almost, practiced??

lots and lots of great uncles on my mother's side who seem quite severly autistic, and have never really been able to look after themselves, of course, in those days they'd just be classed as "a little slow"

my great grandmother on my father's side was an eccentric piano player who loved sherry...so yeah, put that all up in a mixing pot and out pops me ^.^ x

It runs in my dad's side of the family and affected my dad and grandma to some extent but they were able to compensate to some extent and my dad had a career in the military.
I dunno how affected other members are besides my dad and grandma. My Uncle, who's career was that of a cop wasn't impaired enough to interfer with employment.
My dad was fine up to a point, too, until suddenly he went AWOL. Then he got in his car and drove to Canada. So I guess he is more like me although I never tried to get into the military.

As far as I'm aware no one in my family has AS, and no one shows any traits so I'm sort of the odd one out. I do think to myself though how I get it and nobody else does. So in answer to the poll, I put no.

I have exposure to a significant number of families who have members who hare formally diagnosed with Aspergers or related diagnosis, and I have yet to find one that does not have some characteristics that are related to the Autism genetic “set”. Not all of them recognize it since they are often not prevalent or they are well enough adapted so that they are no where near diagnostically clinical levels but they are still there.

I find that once people get past thinking about Autism genetics as something you have and view it appropriately as something you are, their eyes often open up and there is that “oh my gosh I guess I do have some of the genetic characteristics”. Since so much of societal view and clinical standards are based on the maladaptive manifestations which occur due the discrimination that occurs as we are forced into NT societal mold without the chance to learn adaptive skills and to become “self aware”, there is much “misunderstanding” as to identifying what is a core characteristic and what is a manifestation.

This also is part of why many people cannot understand that the autism genetics are the same for us as for those with classic autism, we just have cognitive abilities and lack many of the overlapping issues that our classically autistic cousins have.

bookwormde

I don't have much of a family, but my grandmother (on father's side) definitely has AS. My dad shows certain traits of AS, but I'm not completely sure if he has it. My mom has a little bit of OCD, but no AS on her side for sure.

5 aspies, 2 auties, 2 schizophrenics and 2 diagnosed with BPD in the family.

Adoptee here, but in biological family almost certainly yes from mother, and maternal grandmother. That is, through female line.

I also wonder about my father's father.

And, I don't know if ADHD would have any impact, but I think my mom has that. She can't sit still to even watch a short movie. She always interrupts people when they're talking... she's kind of a b***h (in a sense of just being really irritable and impatient... mood swings). Even she thinks she has ADHD. I can see ADHD in my older brother too when he was a kid but not now, not really.

Then again, he's done a lot of drugs so who knows.

Every male descendent of my grandmother is a geek. One female has been diagnosed with AS. Her aunt shows symptoms. I'm the only male with a diagnosis.