Noamx wrote:
- Mother's age over 30. The older, the higher the chance.
My mother was 30, my father 37.
Since autism passes genetically, I guess old grandparents when they gave birth to parents would likely make parents hidden-autistic which would then pass to kids. This being said,
My mom's mom was 32, my mom's dad was 39 when my mom was born.
My father's mother was around 35 when my father was born. I don't know about father's father.
However, this just reminded me of what my mom had to say about this. From her perspective, both me as well as my parents/grandparents are younger than my age, which is why they had kids late. This makes me think of causation in a different direction:
Maybe the parents that have kids late, have them late BECAUSE they carry autistic genes. So its not the age that makes the genes mutate but INSTEAD its the fact that they were BORN with autistic genes that makes them have kids late.
Noamx wrote:
- Family history of Autism spectrum disorders, like if your uncle / cousin had a similar thing, for example.
My third male cousin on my mom's side developed bipolar. My third female cousin on my mom's side developed mood disorder as well, I think probably depression. My father's mother had Alzcheimer's desease when she was old.
But, if I look OUTISIDE of actual diagnosis, then yes I notice some autistic traits. Neither of the aforementioned third cousins ever got married. My female third cousin is into literature and stuff and seems a bit like living in her own world. Both of my parents were the only children and I was the only child as well (so those specific choices look autistic). My mom was shy and scared of strangers as a little kid and had to ask other kids to explain movies to her. She also is observant about things as an adult. My father had bad temper and was on a less social side. He also had his own ideas about things he was tuck on.
Noamx wrote:
- Being born with one of the less social astrology signs, like capricorn, virgo, pisces, cancer.
I was born as Sagittarius
Noamx wrote:
- Bad parenting, although isnt the direct cause of it, can make the syndrome worse(I can personally confirm this).
Both of my parents were extremely overprotective. But that was the result of Asperger rather than the cause. At the same time, however, it added to my social problems as I was shocked to discover that the rest of the world is not overprotective like they were. So it is a bit of self-perpetuating problem. Asperger caused them to be over-protective and them being over-protective made Asperger worse.
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