How old were your parents when they had you?

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Some studies have shown that the older that the parents are the more likely you are to be autistic.

My father was 35, mother 30 when they had me, so this makes a lot of sense.

I'm curious to hear other people's answers. If we keep this thread going it might be the next big discovery for autism!

So how old were your parents when they had you?

http://children.webmd.com/news/20120822 ... ked-autism

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/healt ... .html?_r=0

My mom was 36 and my dad was 37.

My mother was in her late twenties, my dad in his mid thirties.

Mom 24 Dad 28

ages forty and forty two,it was already heavily in our family so late age as a cause isnt likely with mine.

They were both 37.

Mom, 31, and Dad, 35,

My mom was 22, and my dad was 24.

iirc, mom early 20s (I think like 21) and my dad somewhere mid 20s.

19 & 21

mom 38, dad 32.

Dad - 28 Mom - 29

Both parents were in their 20s but my mom smoked while pregnant.

From memory, Mum was 28 I think Dad was 32. I think the age thing is clutching at straws so far as a reason for ASD.
Research is now leaning towards bioflora being a contributing factor; so diet, whether or not you were born naturally or by caesarean, and how much exposure you had to antibiotics. It seems likely that the bacteria in our mouths and gut play a strong contributing role towards obesity, diabetes, depression, and ASD. How much is about this and how much is other factors is yet to be determined, but clearly this seems plausible.
I still believe that in time ASD will be shown to have numerous interacting factors which contribute to whether it occurs, as well as severity.
Some will be biological, some will be environmental, and some will be a combination of both.
I very much doubt that one single cause will be shown to be more contributory than another, but can stand to be proven wrong.

My mom was 27 and my father was 24.

my dad smoked like a chimney and my mother was exposed constantly to his 2nd-hand smoke.