Is your AS inherited?

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How common is it for several family members to have AS? I'm wondering because I recently saw a claim that it is always inherited, where as I thought it was so only in 40% of the cases.

- I have AS.
- My younger brother has AS.
- I suspect my Dad has AS too.
- My Grandfathers on both sides of my family were highly suspected to be aspies
- My cousin is autistic
- Many other members of my family have aspie traits

So yeah, it definitely runs in my family.

Am have autism [classic] not AS,and have quite a few spectrumers in family,only self and cousin are diagnosed though.
Dad-aspie.
Sister-aspie,has been diagnosed with social anxiety,is classed as gifted and has synesthesia.
Cousin-[from dads side] eighteen years old,also has classic autism,is leaving special school this year.
Uncle [dads brother,not autie cousins' son]-he's classic aspie like dad,but where dad has an obsession with birds,uncles' is with planes,he gets called weird and gay by relatives.

Mum thinks her sister has an ASD,she seems very likely from what know of her,she is more lower functioning than high,she has support via social services.
Her son is also suspected by mum as being on the spectrum.

I seem to be the only aspie in my family tree, so I don't think it is (although it could have came from a very distant ancestor.)

I'm sure my paternal grandfather and my maternal grandmother were aspies. My dad has a lot of aspie traits and I think my mom is an aspie too. My siblings and cousins seem to have many traits when they are not outright aspies.

I've been told that my grandfather was indentical to me when he was my age. I've also been told that his dad, my great-grandfather, was very much like me too. I think it's quite likely that I got it from their side of the family (my dad also has some AS traits, but would be unlikely now to meet the diagnostic criteria).

I've noticed a few family members to have a few AS traits, most notably one of my brothers, but he could just be emulating me as he's done in the past.

I have suspected AS, my son is severely autistic, my father and uncle both have strong AS traits. I think even my mother has traits in fact,

My ex (son's dad) is also suspected AS and most of his family beat to a different drum.

So yes I'd say it's got a strong genetic link.

I am the only one in the family who's a diagnosed aspie. But my brother has a few strong traits, and my uncle and grandad on my mum's side of the family are a bit aspie-ish.

I have a nephew who has some of the traits of being autistic. In today's society, now that autism is all the rage, he might be diagnosed as PPD-NOS (at the very edged of the spectrum). Other than him, I am the only autistic member of my family. I would like to point out that my grandfather was an inventor, so that might have something to do with it.

I don't know. That last time I visited my dad, I accidentally woke him up and he got angry because of it. That lends me to believe that he has trouble going back to sleep after being woken up.

I'm the only one in my family that I am 100% positive has autistic spectrum traits. I have some other family members who've had obsessive compulsive spectrum traits. From what I've heard, I suspect that my one uncle might have had low functioning autism. He was thought of as being mentally ret*d, but my dad told me that he really wasn't all that dumb. I've never had a chance to know him though, as he commited suicide before I was born. I also have a first cousin/foster brother, who I had thought might be an aspie, based upon stereotypical traits, and behaviours. However he has been diagnosed with having R.A.D., so the doctors think that he's weird by nurture, rather than by nature. He also has been diagnosed as having A.D.H.D., and takes Concerta. So I'm really the only confirmed aspie.

Traits seem to run in my family.

Absolutely no-one else in my family has AS or indeed any sort of ASD.
The only thing I can think of is that my dad likes his car parked perfectly parallel to the pavement.

No. My maternal grandfather and mom's late brother seemed to have some traits but nobody would ever classify them as aspies, uncle was simply gifted and grandpa was only unusually taciturn.