Aspergers in your family

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Just out of curiosity, does anyone who has family members with Aspergers and who are Aspie think it's almost a unique version of Aspergers? Like your family genetics seem to carry many of the same qualities even though other Aspies out of your family carry different traits of it?

Like in my family, it's a little different between the boys and girls, and it always seems to be the first born, but it's all pretty similar in nature. Like in my family, there is a small genius attachment to it, but more so in the boys than the girls. Does anyone else notice similarities like that within their own family?

I'm pretty sure my dad has it, but there's nothing "unique" about our cases (well, we're both the last born). I have to wonder if HIS father had it, but I'm not all that sure. He died six years ago and I hardly ever talked to him so I don't have a lot to go on. His father was also the last born.

I'm the last of two. My dad's the last of three. His dad was the last of like.... I dunno. Six or seven.

My Uncle has a diagnosis(presumably since my Mum told me he had it when she told me I had it). He use to have food sensory issues when he was younger and I still have food sensory issues, but his seem to be more surveir than mine(he's lost them now, I think). I don't really talk to him that much though, I don't really get along with him that well.
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My father's mother was almost certainly (100% certainty by my estimation) an Aspie, although the concept and the word didn't exist then. Among her siblings, I believe she was somewhere in the middle.

My father had many Aspie traits, though I doubt he would have met the threshold. He was the youngest of two sons. From what I know (I never knew his brother), I believe his older brother also likely had Aspie traits.

I am the first born of two daughters. My sister is the very definition of NT. I am not.

My dad was very quiet like me so he could have had a small trace of it. Of course he was born in the 50's so they had no idea about aspergers back then (even though it was discovered in the 40's). However, I am a lot worse socially then my father ever was. I do know my quietness came from him though. Still, I seem to to be the only one in my family with social difficulties.

There are a lot of aspie-like people in my family. Their most obvious common trait is that they're all extremely sensitive to noise.
One of my uncles claims that his reason for being on disability pension is that he can't stand loud noises and he has become quite isolated because of his hypersensitivity.

Another common trait is anxiety/OCD. And among the males an obsession with weather and maps. The aspie females in my family are more into music, literature and psychology.

I'm aspie, my auntie and her mother are schizophrenic, and when I was talking to my cousin a while back I realised she seems very OCD, because she was saying she has to write her every move in her journal so the police can use it if she gets murdered, and she has to change the day on her calendar the second it turns midnight otherwise she can't sleep. So no other aspies that I can think of, but related conditions are in my family.

My mother had it (undiagnosed) and my brother has it.

I can only go on guesses, but...

I've seen my younger half-brother only once since he was 4. It was at a party. I 'noted' that, like me when I was 11 like he was at the time, he spent the majority of the party outside. When he came in, it was only to join me and our dad behind the DJ equipment, cueing songs. I spent a good while outside too, chainsmoking (like I do at events), that's how I noticed.
He made no effort to talk to anyone, and was clearly having enough fun anyway. As for me, I had the advantage of being old enough to drink myself talkative.

Also, from what I've been told, all 3 of my daughters are miles ahead of their peers, academically (as I was). Especially my middle daughter, who was 5 with a reading age of 11 when I last heard, shortly before Christmas.

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There are traits running down my mums side of the family, my grandad says exactly what he thinks and not realising it's sometimes innapropriate, he talks to loads of people but only has a few friends, he doesn't like crouds, he likes things quiet but still talks really loud, he has an obssesion (birds) and just says pointless info about them.
My uncle is also a bit aspie-ish (my mum says so I'm not sure but this is what she noticed) he remembers quotes off films and recites them alot, loses things all the time if they aren't in the place he "always" puts them, that's all I can think of but my mum thinks he's one and keeps teasing him about it.
Also my 9 year old brother makes me wonder, he didn't walk til he was 21 months, talked late and spent most of infants school in speech therapy, he toewalks, he gets obsessions, he's niiave, he only has about 1/2 friends (one of which is is a total aspie or maybe adhd one of the two.) also my brother gets alot of wild screamy tantrums but he's improving now, he's sensitive to loud noise and is a fussy eater and once when my friend came over he asked her why she was "staring" at me and not realising she was making eye contact which made me giggle, and my brother laughs et innapropriate things and makes sarcastic comments when something painful is happening to someone which could be an empathy thing.

Not excately a family member, but my nan's sister did marry a man who also has AS.

I sometimes wonder where I got my aspergers.

No one in my family has it or autism.

I am a bit suspicious of my cousin though....

There is definitely something Asperger's like in my mom's side of the family, and I strongly suspect that two of my siblings have it as well. I have a cousin who also displays Asperger traits. BUT, "don't you even dare say anything to his mother", says my mother. Aspergers is just another one of those things we don't talk about, it's shameful, it makes people uncomfortable. And if we don't talk about it maybe it will go away . . .

For a long while, I kept thinking maybe we, my family, aren't totally aspie, but it's the closest thing to what goes on in my family that psychology has for explanation. I swear it's very unique in our family. Then I got to thinking maybe it was that case for many other aspies, and I guess it's not.

It's weird. It comes from my mother's side. Like my grandfather (undiagnosed, but obvious), my aunt (his oldest, same with the obvious but undiagnosed), me (oldest), possibly my daughter (oldest but too young to tell), my nephew (oldest), so now I'm thinking about my cousins. The oldest cousin from one Uncle has to have it. He's the spitting image of my grandfather. But it's a little different between them two and the rest of us, like more functional of a genius. Then, my other cousin from an Aunt is diagnosed ADHD, but I wonder was that a real diagnosis? The meds don't really help him the way they do other ADHD people, and he refuses to take them now because of their dangers. But, he is a lot like me except he's a little more on the narcissistic side. But my Uncle (the guy my aunt married) was a little narcissistic, so I'm sure it was a learned behavior on my cousins part. I'm also a lot like my aunt, but it's like the girly habits of it. More monologues type thing. My aunt is probably the one who has it to the most extreme, and I believe she's been diagnosed with other disorders too. My nephew is a lot like me when I was a kid, but some of his tantrums are worse as he gets a secondary tantrum of guilt for the first one. But I think a lot of that is because he's been told about being Aspergers, and I sometimes think he tries to use it as an excuse and then over dramatizes it for attention. I'd probably be the same way if I knew that young. And, his mom, my sister, was and still is my biggest trigger for serious anger tantrums, and the poor kid not only has to live with her like I did, but he also has to listen to her. I feel so sorry for him sometimes. She doesn't get it. She's too selfish to get it.

Anyway, all of us are more genius like than the NT's in the family, like a hereditary genius. We score genius level (or close to it like myself...not a genius) but that's only because we are so good at math and mechanics. It's really a mechanical mind. The only things that makes our Aspergers go a little different from each other is our personalities, mixes of other genetics as we marry on, and the type of parenting strategies being used. But it all still seems fairly similar between us. I still question the Aspergers with that genius because it's not an Aspie thing to be genius, but it is in my family. Maybe we have a gene somewhere autistic in nature, and dominant some how, I don't know. Maybe I should research more about how genetics work, especially with first born children.

I still think it may be a curse on all the first born in my family from way back when. We do have a lot of relatives from Conneticut (I think we are related to the 3rd governor or something), and Noah Webster is also in that tree somewhere which is why I think he could have very well been Aspergers (I should see if he were the oldest kid and then we'd know for sure lol), so maybe we played a role on a witch trial and got cursed. Only reason why I think that is that all those old school curses are always on the first born, not that I think Aspergers is a curse, though sometimes it feels that way.

Yeah, I finally researched about Noah (my post made me think to do so), and he was the middle kid, so doubtful he had it. But the governor we are related to would be John Webster I guess. But Noah is a great...uncle according to my grandfather's geneology research, so his mom being related to William Bradford would only be for the other side of Websters I guess. But I'm glad I researched him though. I knew I was related, but never had the desire to really look into his life. Now I think I will more. According to Wiki, "(a modern bibliography of his published works required 655 pages)." Isn't that crazy? But it is nice to hear family talk strong about the importance of the Bible in education. I was feeling quite alone on that one until now. I should probably stop complaining about copyright laws since he started it. Not that I hate copyrights, but I don't think anyone should own a word unless they really did make it up themselves. You know some guy bought the copyrights to Hooah and Hooyah? Some jerk in the movie industry did that. Those are military created words. They weren't his to claim.

Either way, I guess it's still possible that he could be Aspie. Why? My major clue is that he revised the King James Version of the Bible. According to Wiki...