Autism in the family

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I was just wondering if anyone else has family members with an autism or aspergers diagnosis. Most of my family members (on both my mothers and fathers side) have autism or aspergers. Three of my four of my grandparents had traits of aspergers but were never diagnosed, and most of their kids (my mom, dad, uncles and one of my aunts) are diagnosed or have traits. My little brother have diagnosed PDD-NOS and my big brother may have aspergers (He is a lot like me). I know it is genetic but does it usually affect such a large part of a family?

im adopted. and the family i have now all are nts both sides of the family. theres not relaly any heredatary diseases or problems on either side

but i read a dicoment concerning my 'blood' family a couple fo eyars ago and found out that the vast msjority of my 'mothers' side of the family had several prolems inclusing autism . most of them are in wheelchairs aswell apparently.. not sure why though. i want to find that out

Most definatly with me

All my brothers including me (3) father, grandfather on the fathers side and alot of my relatives on the fathers side are on various parts of the autistic spectrum. Definatly something in my genepool

I only know of three generations - my family had never heard about it before I found out about it and then it was just like a domino effect - and the rest are dead. They're all on my father's side of the family:
My grandfather, one uncle, my father, and me.
There's most likely more, but I'm not close with a lot of them.