"it's in the air"

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20 Mar 2014, 4:34 am

That was my dad's response to us talking about Aspergers and me saying it's mostly genetic.

"it's not genetic, it's in the air and all that"

He told me this is what he read online and that's what he believes.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

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20 Mar 2014, 4:58 am

Purely genetic.

AS is not in the air, Asthma is.

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20 Mar 2014, 8:40 am

Your father, and my mother would have a wonderful conversation about not knowing what they are talking about.

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20 Mar 2014, 10:45 am

While I'm sure it's frustrating, I find their ignorance rather amusing. Sometimes the best cure is to see the humor in the ridiculousness of their reasoning and laugh to yourself. People believe some very strange things.

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20 Mar 2014, 8:19 pm

Folks will say "it's in the air" figuratively about the latest fad, or such.

But never literally!

Except maybe your parents.

Your parents sound like they think its carried by airborne germs!

You'll have to ask them what exactly they mean by "it's in the air"?

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