lotsofsnails wrote:
Ohh that's interesting. My mum was telling me about her father's brother and it sounds as though he was an aspie too - he never left home, never got married, had a massive coin collection, learnt Persian. And my mum's father himself seemed to have aspie features to a moderate extent. And his son (my uncle) may have AS, and he has a son who has been diagnosed with autism. So almost all the men on my mum's side have features or are in the spectrum.
It's interesting to look at traits of Autism that family members have, I myself used to have a coin collection actually.
The worst thing about my... grandfathers borhters (is there another word for that) is that his collection, worth over ten thousand dollars was stolen by his best friend while he was in hospital, he asked his friend to look after his house and his stamps were gone and his friend had left when he got back.