Anyone the only aspie in their family?

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I feel alone too. In fact, I'm angry. AS is a trait on my mum's side, and there are a few distant cousins who have AS, but I've never met them and they are very distantly related. But my mum and dad's brothers' and sisters' children are my first cousins - and none of them have AS. All of my dad's side are really confident, so this was definately not from my dad's side. But none of my mum's sisters or brother has AS, nor any of their children. Not even a trait.
What makes it worse is I find myself getting horribly jealous of all my cousins because I'm the one with the least friends. One week-end when I was about 13, I was bored and lonely so I asked what my cousins were doing, and every one of them were spending the week-end with friends, and so I spent all week-end in my room crying my eyes out and wondering why I was the one who was cursed to be singled-out of my family. I just cannot get over this.
Now all my cousins on my dad's side are young adults, I've found that every one of them are out having fun, and I feel I'm missing out. I feel I might aswell be 77 like my nan, and live in an old people's home. Because my life might aswell be over. It's not fair. Really isn't. I HATE ASPERGER'S! It's worse than Altzheimer's.

In terms of the subject posted all that I can possibly express in a most sincere manner is that the following people in my family are part of the autistic spectrum in varying degrees. Grandmother(mom's side) Great-Grandfather(mom's side) Aunt(Dad's side).. Beyond this I could make a small notion that possibly my neice of 8yrs of age might possibly be in the spectrum but, this is without clinical evidence at this moment.Anyways, that's all I can say upon this matter but, I found this post to be interesting..

I'm the only aspie in my family as far as I know. I feel so alone.

I'm the only one in my family with Asperger's Syndrome.

I have a really cute little picture book called "All Cats Have Asperger's" that someone gave me when my eldest was first diagnosed. They make a pretty good, but humorous, case for it. As a family of cat lovers we like the idea.

I'm afraid that if we had an NT in our family they'd be in danger of feeling isolated and alone. I do think my youngest feels that way sometimes, even though he isn't NT, his social needs are pretty much the same as an NT. and he's got two Aspie brothers that make that hard for him. I think he's developed some Aspie habits that make it harder to connect with other kids...like monologuing. To him Aspie behavior is normal kid behavior.

I'm the only diagnosed Aspie, and definitely the only one in my immediate family (unless you count the cat). I have a few relatives who I'm 99% sure have undiagnosed Asperger's, and a few more who might have it.

Sometimes I feel alone, but most of my relatives have enough Aspie traits that I don't feel always feel like the odd one out. We're not a very outgoing or noise-loving bunch.

I'm the only one.

I thought I was the only one until recently when I found out that my grandma's nephew is severely autistic. As far as I know, though, I'm the only person in my family with Asperger's.

I was officially diagnosed (doctors/pediatricians thought it was childhood depression back in the 80s) in 2008. However, pretty sure my mother's older brother had it (he died back in 2001, obesity/diabetes . . . but his mannerisms were definitely ASD).

My nephew and I are the only ones I know.

I'm the only one..Grandmother and mother have ADD though.

Only one. Mom has aspie traits, pretty sure she's ADD as well. Adopted little brother has ADHD. My 2nd cousin (or something like that) probably has is, but I don't know him well enough to tell if he's aspie or not. There are some other psychological 'stuff' in my family, but just a little.

I just found out my youngest brother has undiagnosed ADD but one doctor confirmed he has it so he takes pills for it. That explained his problems, I always thought he was careless. I would say he is worse than me since he has to take pills for it so he concentrate better and control his condition better.

yes. But I don't know anyone on my father's side and I imagine he was the source.

A half-cousin of mine and myself are the only ones diagnosed as being on the spectrum, although I suspect my dad and uncle may have it as well.

I think I am the only aspie in my family however my cousin does have aspie-like traits but I can't say for certain. He has many issues with both his family and life.