Inherited traits?

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I'll try to make this short, but let's see how it goes...

It all started when my daughter, 16 yo, said something about her best friend having been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Because I usually want to know about things, I started to get information... and the more I read the more I found the symptoms in myself.

So now I'm in the process of getting the diagnosis. That is likely to happen next Wednesday.

It all seems to make more sense now. Why I seemed to understand that friend that nobody else but my daughter understood. And why I always found it easy to communicate with my daughter, that was a "problem child."

I assume we both have the AS.

My daughter was having great difficulties going to school the 9:th grade (the last compulsory) because of the difficulties with the peers. So she was able to finish the whole year by reading and going to school only for the tests. That was after I was able to motivate her by logic that it was important.

After my upcoming diagnose, I will hopefully be able to motivate her towards getting a diagnose for herself, as well.

She has been seeing a psychiatrist for more than a year. She has told me, that because she does not trust the psychiatrist, she has not really opened up or told anything deep about herself. I realize it is an "aspie trait" not to trust some people.

I am now hoping that after the possible AS diagnosis for my daughter, I'll be able to logically convince her to get help from someone for these issues. And I have three more children with some possible traits in the autistic spectrum.

Did this make any sense? It was no actual question, maybe it was letting some "steam" out, but still any answer or advice is appreciated.

Neither my husband nor myself are diagnosed aspies, but my 4 yo son is. He is an absolute mix of the both of us physically and mentally. We thought almost all of his "symptoms" were simply inherited odd traits from us. Even when we told family of our concerns, they replied (lovingly) "well you guys are both kind of weird." I, in particular, have a very easy time reading him and see so much of myself in him it almost hurts. The hubs and I don't much care about a diagnosis for ourselves, but we realizied the benefits for getting our boy diagnosed, which we did.

I absolutely believe that genetics play a major role in AS, but I have no science to back it up.

I was dxed after my son was dxed because it was observed by the psch that I had some similar ways. There are most definitely traits which are passed down, but funnily enough, although my mother has traits also , she was told she wasn't aspie.

I am not an aspie but boy do I have some strong traits. I believe if my father was still alive, he would of gotten the AS dx.

I do/have so many things. I have alot of anxiety and panic attacks. I have ADHD and some OCD. I pick my head and pace alot when I'm nervous. I even like to flap my wrists back and forth while I pace. I also like to talk to myself. And yes, sometimes I can get into my own world.

I think the reason I can say I am not an Aspie, is because I'm pretty good at reading body language and understanding another persons perspective (even thou to me understanding something is crucial in my thinking and it can drive me nuts if I'm confused about anothers thinking or behaviors. I have to understand period)