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What factors would be true of you as a person with AS (or of your AS child)?
Other people in my immediate (parents, brothers/sisters) family have AS 44%  44%  [ 24 ]
Other people in my extended (aunties/uncles, cousins, grandparents) family have AS 20%  20%  [ 11 ]
My mother had difficulties in labour and birth 18%  18%  [ 10 ]
Other (feel free to expand on in posts) 18%  18%  [ 10 ]
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The_Walrus
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02 Apr 2020, 7:56 am

The whole thread seems to be based on a poor lay understanding of genetics.

Autism has a strong genetic component, but that is different from “other people in my family have it”.

Not all cases of autism can be understood genetically.

By far the best understood environmental cause, as one of the later posters back in 2008 said, is rubella during pregnancy.



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02 Apr 2020, 10:34 am

The_Walrus wrote:
The whole thread seems to be based on a poor lay understanding of genetics.

Autism has a strong genetic component, but that is different from “other people in my family have it”.

Not all cases of autism can be understood genetically.

By far the best understood environmental cause, as one of the later posters back in 2008 said, is rubella during pregnancy.


I'd give long odds that my mother and her father had it, although we are very different.

Are those Rubella cases as varied as the rest of the sample?



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02 Apr 2020, 6:52 pm

Father: My step daughter has said we share several traits . As someone who retired as a Foreign office equivalent of a senior brigadier , he would have to be very high functioning and excellent at masking if he was on the spectrum.

Mother: I don't think so . Ditto my brother and sister.

My birth : No mention of any difficulties .

Early childhood : Tested for the Spa .... word c1962/3 at Gt Ormond street because my 1st school in Bangkok had voiced concerns . Result was negative . Nothing else was suggested , and my parents didn't pursue the matter .


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06 Apr 2020, 4:41 pm

In my case it probably comes from my maternal side. My mom has some traits, she and my aunt have speculated about their father possibly being on the spectrum, and I have a second cousin on that side with an official diagnosis.


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