common conditions in families with autistic individuals
thanks, this is interesting !
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really?
but do you mean the mother and father sides or male and females of the family? For instance, if it is sides then the mother's brother has depression and the father's mother has asd? Or it would be like the uncles no matter the side have autistic traits and the aunts have anxiety or depression? Do you understand my question? It is a little bit confusing,
my mother is prone to anxiety and depression but maybe this is because of her autoimmune disease's medications and treatments and also the unpredictability of her health. They say when she was in her twenties before the first disease attack she was a very calm person.
I do understand your question and I'm not sure. I don't have the study anymore. I'll do a quick search and see if I can find it, if not then sorry.
I am just asking because if it is about family sides this is veeeeery interesting. Like, people with autistic traits being attracted by people with mood disorder etc. I would like to read researches on that.
at least in my family autistic traits come from father and mood disorders from mother, even though the aspie was my father's mother. That is interesting isn't it?
It is, indeed.
I can identify several individuals on both sides of the family who have/had major depression and/or significant anxiety issues. The brother who I lost to cirrhosis from alcoholism and hepatitis C claimed before he passed that he had started the substance abuse and had difficulty overcoming it due to untreated depression. There aren't any other diagnosed Aspies in the family, but my father had strong Aspie traits and there are persons on both sides of the family, though mostly my father's side, who are other possible candidates. An aunt on my father's side and all her descendants to date have spina bifida occulta. Unless the mutation started with my aunt, this suggests a tendency toward neural tube defects on my father's side of the family. I am the only living person with Goldenhars on my family tree, but lately I've started wondering if there might have been non-survivors among early infant deaths and miscarriages. That's something I need to research.
Couldn't say, nobody in my family is diagnosed with anything, except my dad's mum with agoraphobia or whatever it is she has, and she's just a total weirdo, posting pictures of her bleeding toe on Facebook
I think she may possibly be on the spectrum.
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Your Aspie score: 187 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 25 of 200
AQ: 43
Empathy Quotient: 8
I have ASD, ADHD, Hypermobility Syndrome.
When I was diagnosed, I was asked to catalog the mental illness in my family (basically, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins). I remember sitting down with my parents to collect this information. I was surprised to learn how “broad” it was. It included bipolar, hysteria, hyperactivity, depression (including suicide), anxiety, depression, OCD, addiction and general social ineptitude. One person had a nervous breakdown and was close to being institutionalized.
It seems like a lot. Then again, sometimes I wonder how abnormal it really is. In order words, maybe it is normal (to have so many conditions within the family).
Interesting thread topic! On my mom's side of the family, depression is common in the women and alcoholism is common in the men. I also have an aspie/adhd cousin on her side, although I haven't seen him since we were really young because he lives in a different state. My dad's side is interesting. There seem to be quite a few people with at least BAP traits but they also have a lot of very social but not so bright people. I don't think there's any history of actual mental illness on his side, except maybe one person but I'm not sure. They do have a few people with autoimmune diseases.
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