Is autism prevalent in your family?

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Not at all! I'm not joking either. Everyone from BOTH sides of my family acts like they are NT and I haven't heard anything about a relative of mine getting diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder.
You must be wondering if I was adopted. I'm 100% sure that my actual parents are my biological parents. They look like me and I have the birth certificate to prove that I'm in the right family despite that I feel that I don't belong in my family because they act so different from me. I honestly have nothing in common with any of them either.
It's so hard to explain and if anyone has any specific questions please ask me.

Are there any Asperger's or Autistic family members in your family?

not in my immediate family- I do have a female cousin whos son is HFA and other than that I do not know- but not to my knowledge.

BUT, if you take my mother ( OCD, Bipolar, ADHD) and my brother (Bipolar, skizo, ADHD)
and then my husbands family ( alot of mental health disorders)

then you take me ( alittle controlling, and demanding, hyperactive)
my husband ( OCD, possible AS in my terms)
then my older kids:
Alexandra ( gifted, some AS traits, not enough for a label)
Justin (ADHD, bipolar, sensory issues)
Rayna (social anxiety, had a speech delay)
Nicco ( PDD-NOS)
Kenzie ( speech delay, fine/gross motor delay, sensory issues)

well, should I say we are a melting pot of.............stuff.

I am sure if you break down you immediate family- you could probably find some type of "issues"- I truely believe it is genetic of course environmental issues will play a role- to a point.
the apple does not fall far from the tree.
Michele

Nope, no other mental disorders either. I've heard that I had a distant cousin with bipolar but that's about it. I'm not even sure if they were talking about my relative or somebody else's.
I'm the only weird kid in the entire family. No kidding either.

Nope. Although my mom tells me that my grandpa (dad's side) might have some behaviors that could be considered part of AS/Autism/or something along that line. But I can't seem to tell. As far as I really know, no one in my family has any kind of mental disorder.

On my dads side of the family, everyone is/was NT. On my moms side, we have a scattering of "wierd" people. The closest person to me that might have aspie-like traits is an uncle of mine on my moms who's lived and worked in solitude for about 25 years now.

My dad has Asperger's Syndrome (at least he thinks he does), but other than that, I don't think so.

Mich

No one in my immediate or extended family have an autistic disorder. Although a few of them have mental disorders.

I have AS and my son does, I'm sure my sister and dad were aspies, and my uncle had AS, also many mental health problems were prevalent, so in my family at least theres definetely a genetic element.

One of my cousins (out of 21 of them) is 'properly' autistic- but thats it.

Me, my youngest brother, and my father all have AS-like traits. From what I have heard about my father's father (my grandfather), he did as well. None of us are diagnosed, however. I'm fairly certain one of my aunts has ADD, and I know that her son (my cousin) has a learning disability of some kind, but I was never told what it was.

No. But everyone (almost) on my father's side of the family is mentally ill. My father probably had a speech impediment as a child (as did I, but mine was minor) and had difficulty learning how to read despite a high IQ. He was very obsessive and preferred facts to feelings (although he was very emotional and would through temper tantrums at the slightest thing), but we also think he was paranoid schizophrenic (and he was an alcoholic). My mother's side of the family is pretty eccentric; her uncle was a hermit that lived in the woods with tons of dogs, many would probably be of the schizoid/schizotypal personality types. My mother takes things literally and is very naive and honest. My brother is a very NT bipolar. Overall, I'd say no one in my family to my knowledge is on the spectrum, but there is much weirdness.

There are a few people on my Dad's side of the Family who are pretty odd.

My family:

-Father- undiagnosed but Aspie as they come (engineer)
-Mother- symptoms similar to ADD (she also has DID and depression/anxiety)
-Maternal Grandmother- Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (and possibly Bipolar)
-Maternal Grandfather- Organic Brain Disorder and possibly Schizoid PD
-Paternal Grandparents- unknown
-Paternal Uncle- shows some signs of Aspiedom (i.e., a couple of intense interests and not so hot with the ladies)
-Maternal Great-Grandfather- showed some Aspie signs but difficult to tell with a sh***y childhood (engineer)

I don't know about my extended family, but my parents and syblings are all pretty disfunctional )as my mother likes to say. ) I'm the only one diagnosed though.

Father - AS traits
Mother - Depression, Obbsessive compulsive
Me - Autism, Manic depression
Boy - Actually, he's vaugly normal, but he has physical "disabilites", like he's colour blind and asmatic
Bug - Dyslexic
Brat - Anti Social (seriously, like stealing and fighting, stuff like that.)

My dad almost certainly has AS, although he doesn't feel that seeking diagnosis would be worthwhile. Many of his relatives have been described as "eccentric," which may mean they had some aspie features, but as I didn't know most of them I cannot judge. My cousin (dad's brother's son) has HFA and dyslexia.

My mum's side of the family are completely NT, although both her brothers and her mother have suffered from depression.