are there any engineers in your family

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My son is 7 and has been diagnosed with AS. He had an highly superior score on the matrix reasoning part of an intelligence test that was part of obtainig his dx. Upon investigation of matrix reasoning I discovered this ability is condusive to careers in engineering and graphic design. I also learned that an MIT alumni had started a forum re. Aspergers because many of his clasmates or their children had been classified AS. When he talks to other families with AS he always ask them do you have any engineers in your family? I personally have two brothers and two cousins who are engineers. Just curious if anyone else has the same experience. Thanks

My dad's an industrial engineer... for General Dynamics...

What is Matrix Reasoning? Is that wearing a black trenchcoat while hacking through computers?

Whoa...

I'm a nuclear engineer, my dad's an industrial engineer, and my brother is a mechanical engineer. My mom is not an engineer, but she's in IT, which is closely related as far as aptitude goes, with the only difference mainly being training. I won't bother going into my extended family, but suffice it to say that there are many engineers there. Hehe... a family of engineers... you can bet that sunday dinner was an interesting affair.

Aspies tend to be well suited to engineering... give me a project that interests me, and I don't mind being locked up in a dark, cramped cubicle without windows for days at a time - all I care about is the problem. I'll work my butt off and won't rest until the problem is solved. And then, I'll work on it some more making the solution even better. That perfectionist side of me, while my boss doesn't dislike it, does cause him some headache when it comes to deadlines. Oh well, the customer's getting a better product.

Now as far as the cause-and-effect, that is certainly up for debate, one which I won't go into here.

There is a joke that engineer is a euphemism for asperger's. My late father (had AS) was an engineer (electrical) and my brother (NT) has an engineering degree too, not sure which type. I'm hopeless at it, and I have AS.

My father was an engineer (forgive me, but I was never told exactly what he did nor his title/type of engineering) but he worked at Boeing since he got out of grad school back during the beginning of the Vietnam War. I know he was the lead on "Tiger Teams" and wasn't allowed to talk about his work at all. My mother said there were even times while they were married that our phones were tapped due to the level of secrecy of whatever the hell he was working on at the time. All I know is: Engineer, and looking back on him, VERY AS.

This was one of the things that clicked with me when I began researching asperger's a couple of weeks ago. Apparently an unusually high proportion of people with AS have fathers who are engineers - well my dad was an engineer and my eldest brother started his career as one although now he's a production manager (the middle brother is an architect). I bucked the trend by becoming a hippy dropout artist type.

Rock on, man! Damn CONFORMITY!! ! Power to the people!

Hi To answer the above question, matrix reasoning sample nonverbal perceptual reasoning by requiring an individual to complete the missing portion of abtract patterns. Thanks for your responses I have heard that besides MIT Silicon Valley is also home to alot parents and children dx AS.

Heh. Grandad - aircraft engineer. Dad - mechanic. Uncle - mechanic. shedloads of AS traits. anyone seeing a pattern emerging here with the answers on this thread?

My father is an engineer. And i m too. My husband is IT-manager. My son is very interested in computers and roboting. Since a few weeks i think his problems at school can be caused by AS.


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My grandfather on my father's side (never met him, he died back when I was a teen and divorced from Gran when my father was 17) was an engineer. My cousin (mom's side) went to university for engineering, my cousin is NT, not sure about my paternal grandfather though, it's on his side the AS/Autism comes from.

Grandfather was a Chemical Engineer. I'm fairly certain AS skips a generation in my family. I'm the more artistic type myself.

I'd also like to mention that "c'mom" is an insanely catchy name. It's pun genius.

My mom is electrical and my dad biomedical, but they changed careers a lot afterward. BTW, everyone in my family is NT. Engineering was just really popular among people growing up in Asia during the 70s, and my folks just followed the trend.

My Grandfather was an aircraft mechanic for the Army Air Corps in WWII. The only two places he was known to be stationed during the war was Guadalcanal during '42-43 and Tinian in the summer of 1945. He was EXTREMELY tight-lipped about his service which has led to speculation among the family that he either had severe PTSD from Guadalcanal that he hid (kind of unlikely) or he was involved in the Manhattan Project working on the Enola Gay or Boxcar. After the war he became an Areospace Engineer. He was always extremely cold and distant. He was a workaholic, extremey tight-fisted with money, and the only thing he did for a hoby was gardening, which was also his second job which he only did to save up a massive savings in case of an emergency. In all likelyhood he had AS.

I don't have any engineers in my family. I guess I don't follow the trend. Both of my parents are in the arts. A lot of people on both sides have some AS traits, though.