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For a while, I suspected that my dad had AS because he showed many of the symptoms I do. Yesterday, I told my psychologist about and he believes he did. However, because my dad is dead, an official diagnosis is not possible. But that proves to me that I am the son of an AS man and an NT woman.

Now here's my question:

Wouldn't a child of an AS and NT couple be considered a hybrid?

I don't see why that would be so. There do exist NT children born from two AS parents.

No, not from a genetic point of view. Does a child with brown eyes who was born to parents of brown and blue eyes a hybrid of brown and blue?

Also, nothing is proven. You do not know for sure if your dad had an ASD.

Are the genetics of autism known?

Nope, but my answer was made under the OP's assumption that it was.

It doesn't make a difference, whether the dad is aspie and mum is nt,am classic autistic but dad is aspie,and mum is NT.
Aspies can have auties,and auties can have aspies,having an NT parent doesn't dilute Autism or Aspergers as it is shown from Autistic families.
Temple Grandin has said [in a better way] it depends on what connections in the brain get/don't get connected that make a person more or less severe.

Unless you are operating with a different defenition of "hybrid" than the one I have been tought in Biology, then no you are not a hybrid.
A hybrid is an infertile mix of two different species, such as the mule (Donkey+horse=mule) So unless you are the infertile offspring of a human+ something inhuman union, then you are not a hybrid.

Well, OK

I thought I was something special. Thanks for crushing my hopes guys.

Just kidding

1 in 150 isn't special enough for you?

Hybrid: The Story of the Half-Aspie. Sounds like a movie.

Technically that wouldn't be possible unless people with AS and NTs were two different species.

Both my parents are NT (or so I think anyway) but I'm certainly not NT.

Or 25 (whole spectrum) out of 10.000. You can move and depending on where you live, you're even rarer than you are elsewhere!

NO IT ISN"T!! !! !!

Just kidding again

Actually, that's pretty good and so is what Sora said.

I just thought the whole hybrid thing would be cool. But hybrid or not, I AM special.

I imagine there are many other cases like mine on this forum.

1 in 150?

Try 1 in 6,500,000,000.

Satisfied yet?

Well, its clear now that I am not actually a hybrid, but I still like the idea. I don't exactly have the best of both worlds, I'm much more AS than NT. I was not born with any NT traits, I had to learn them.

When I posted the question, I had seen both answers as possibilities but I wasn't sure which to go by. But if I was indeed a hybrid, that wouldn't make me any better than any of you or anyone else on the site because we are all aspies, each with our own unique traits.