What disorders run through your family??

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What disorders run through your family?

This is a semi-addendum to the Relatives with Possible AS thread. I'm just wanting to see which disorders seem to happen more frequently with Aspergers or vice versa.


My family:

-Aspergers Syndrome
-possible AD/HD
-possible Bipolar
-Major Depression
-anxiety disorders
-possible Schizoid Personality Disorder
-Epilepsy
-tic disorders
-Dissociative Identity Disorder (due to environmental cause)
-Organic Brain Disorder (due to blunt trauma brain damage)

I'll put an asterick (*) next to the ones I don't have anymore. I seem to have/had everything the family's capable of getting.

Mental:
ADD/ADHD
Asperger's
Tourette's* (side effect to ADD/ADHD mediacation)
Anxiety Disorder* (AS related?)
Clinical Depression*
OCD
A variety of LD's* (not all)
Personality Disorder(s)...maybe...?

Physical: Do you want a list?

I'm not really sure. Because I was adopted. My biological mother probably has AS.

My sister has fybro Myalgia (NT)

I think i have midl Tourette's or something similar if that possible (i have muslce spasms and *stuff)

mother (NT) major depression (but comig good with new husband and nicer life, although it will never go away for her I know)
mum also some signs of dyslexia

My dad (AS undx'd) very bad anger issues (whatever that would be called)

My brother..well he so normal it not funny!! ! I love my bro he the greatest little brother!! Well maybe he so far from normal it not funny!! He has been the perfect child for mum and the perfect brother for me and the perfect boyfriend to his girlfriend blah balh blah...there is something not normal about that I'm sure.

Well everyone in my family (except me) work way too hard. They go above and beyond the call of salary.

I just went and asked my mom but she was being a b***h as usual.Soooo here are the noes that I know of:

Asperger Syndrome
dyslexia
color blindness
depression
OCD

That's all I know of.If I find out more I'll tell y'all.

Oh, partial color blindness in my family. Can only see primary colors or something like that. My brother, grandfather, and a cousin have it.

I don't really know... my family are way too hostile about the whole idea of mental problems to admit to anything or get help with a problem. But the women on my mother's side of the family tend to be prone to nervous breakdowns, and the men on my father's side to general geekiness.

Heart disease, cancer, diabetes...all the big ones. No neurological ones, though.

Mother's side:
cancer, arthritis, heart attack, thyroid, diabetes

Father's side:
AS (undx'd), stroke, heart attack, thyroid, diabetes

(Guess I'm head on for an eventual run-in with heart attack, thyroid, and diabetes. I'm doing everything I responsibly can to minimize my chances!)

For some reason, my younger sister and brother (I am oldest of three) are both allergic to half the universe. I'm not allergic to anything that I know of, except stupid people. Oh wait, that is half the universe...

My oldest daughter has fibromyalgia, possibly MS (verdict is still out on that one - we hope to have a definitive answer soon).

PSYCHOLOGICAL
Lucodistraphy
Depression
Anxiety
ADHD

PHYSICAL
--Diabetes type 1/2
--Juvinile Diabetes
Heart Disease
Lucodistraphy
Partial blindness


I am the first diagnoses Aspi.
The list is very small, but the Diabetes makes up for all the blanks.
Every kind of Diabetes in existance, especially juvinile, runs rancid in my family.
Juvinile-- Me, my sister, my little cousin, and my grandmother (passed away on its account)
Diabetes type 1-- My aunt, and two uncles.
Type 2-- Half of what's left, and perhaps my dad... he's on his way to diagnosis.

P.S. That's just the diabetes on my dad's side... I don't know about my mom's side.

Asperger's (undiagnosed) - I posted details in the relatives with AS thread
Sleep disorders (Hypnogogic Sleep Paralysis and Night Terrors)
Hypermobility Syndrome (a connective tissue disorder affecting ligaments and leading to early onset osteoarthritis)
Both my brother and I have a life-long history of motor tics, in my case vocal too, so possible mild undiagnosed Tourette's
OCD (mild)
Synaesthesia
Glaucoma

The only one of the above I don't have is glaucoma. Counting my blessings.

My biological family also had obesity and diabeties.

OCD is big in our family but it is more of a "routine/stim" kinda thing more than "if I don't do this, something bad will happen."

Sleeping disorders. Although I think our patterns are just different from the norm.

We have a few things that I wonder if they are Autism-related:

Eating disorders such as stomach and esophagus spasms (which cause vomiting and gagging reflexes to go crazy).

High Blood Pressure or Hypertension (possibly caused by the "fight or flight" response to everything?)

Scoliosis (This has gotta be neurological too, to make the spine curve in such weird ways)

eplispsy, add/hd and anxiety disorders.

I have a couple "odd" uncles that might have AS, not sure on this at all to be frank. Sometimes I suspect I was adopted, but I have a Birth Certificate, so eh.

ADD/ADHD
Asperger's
Tourette's - Anxiety Disorder (AS related)
OCD