Austism Aspergers Lineage Poll

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The purpose of this survey is to get a general idea of how common Aspergers / Autism is in families.

Rules:
Please state only siblings with the same two parents as you.
(I will do a survey for half-siblings in the future, just want to keep this survey simple).

"Confirmed..." does not necessarily mean official Diagnosed, if you feel they certainly have it, that's fine.
Same for "I have..." no official diagnosis, if you are certain you have Autism / Aspergers.
"Grandparent with..." because it is unlikely to be officially diagnosed, anything is acceptable, diagnosed, selfdiagnosed, strong suspicion they are/were.

You may change your vote, if you feel you've made a mistake.

Do two Aspergers parents give birth to an Autistic child?
Why grandparents? Sometimes genetic traits skip a generation, you will see many similarities between a grandparent and their grandchildren (this is my anecdotal opinion).
Will there only be one child that has Autism/Aspergers?

What will I do with the results of this survey? Nothing, I could make a pie chart to display at some point for you.
I'm not a researcher, or have any commercial interest in this data or these results. Just doing this out of pure curiousity, the questions intrigue me. (my father had aspergers, and I do too)

I'm guessing that, since you differentiate between Aspergers and Autism, ASD level 1 counts as Aspergers, and ASD level 2 or 3 counts as Autism. You could get some trouble in this department because people diagnosed with ASD level 1 won't know whether to put Autism or Aspergers.

I also notice that, for parent with Aspergers, you differentiate between Suspected or Confirmed, but for other relatives, you don't differentiate between suspected and confirmed.

I've been told that my grandfather had some of the same challenges as me, so I'm going to say I have a grandparent with Aspergers.

My brother definitely has some ASD traits, but no diagnosis and he's way better with social stuff than I am, so I'm going to say he doesn't have Aspergers.

This is actually a complex thing to answer in my case.

Everyone in my family has autistic traits. Often very strong traits, but generally not enough to get diagnosed.
I am the only diagnosed autistic.
One of my sisters is highly suspected autistic.
My great grandfather was likely an autistic savant.

So, many of these answers have a, "kinda", in my case.

I'll still try to answer at what closest fits.

If you're considering genetic lineage of autism, shouldn't there be an option of "my child has autism" also?

I have what is considered a branch of aspergers but will tick off just me as having aspergers for the time being, to my knowledge no one on either side of my family remotely has autism/aspergers, i've met all my relatives at least once and none seemed to exhibit symptoms nor pointed out that they have the condition.

Why can I suspect a parent not a grandparent?

For those who do not turn on the display signature option. I was diagnosed with both Aspergers in DSM IV and Autism in the DSM 5.

I suspect my father and his father and a nephew.

I have an aspie cousin.

I suspected my grandpa on my father's side. And my great grandpa on my father's father's side. But it's too late for me to ever confirm of that now. Maybe even likely not.

I don't know my dad well. From my memory, too few interactions with him on the phone and online, likely not.


At my mother's side, it's very unlikely -- AS, ND, or something else. While I do have a suspected ND cousin at that side (may or may not be confirmed officially already), it's likely from the in-law side though.

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I have an NT sister and father. Got it from Grandad through mother. No children, nieces or nephews.

My late grandfather was never confirmed as having Asperger's or any other disability, but he definitely had something as did his mother (allegedly - she died decades before I was born, so this is hearsay). He didn't really have any friends and had obvious difficulties socialising.

My mother stated once that she might have "a touch" of Aspergers.

But I still don't believe she has an autism spectrum disorder; she does have various psychological disorders, though.

I am the only one in my family with autism.

On my sister-in-law's side of the family, though, there are two brothers with high-functioning Kanner-type autism.

One of my nephews is autistic, like me he's a bit more mild but I'm not sure how related that is to anything since he's my sister's kid.