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If I qualify for ASD then so do all my first-degree relatives. My grandmothers and great-grandmothers too, however it is more tricky to evaluate their autistic traits , since they had to survive through junta,famine,foreign occupation etc.
The much dreaded controlling greek parenting and the public sector offer fertile ground for many full-aspie families to form, in my opinion.
To the above posters , please don't blame the Swedes. The south is a hive of autistic activity, if only they were able grasp the concept that ''autism'' could stand for something other than an insult. So, sadly, we won't be seeing a sufficient study on autism in the greek population soon. Guess I should be thankfull that there are stats from Turkey and Spain.

Are you Greek?

Obviously. All greeks have a very unique way to express ourselves in English

I'm not sure really, but according to my sister (who is most certainly NT) our family is very wierd. My husband also finds us very odd. Apparently, we only talk to exchange informaiton (which is what talking is for IMO). I always thought his family had a pathological need to talk all the time, and whenever I am with them I have to hide in my room and read for a bit to get enough energy to go back out again.

So I think that there's me, my parents and my two brothers with either AS or BAP. And my NT sister who I thought was the odd one growing up

Now, in my children, I think that they are all NT which is very tricky for me. I get how to interact with them (I think), but I find my son the easiest to get along with.

As a parent with two late-talking sons, I did some independent research and let it go for quite some time because it was clear they understood things. If I were to go through it now I might try sign language, which works for some and would have made my older son a lot happier (he would get very frustrated with his inability to communicate). My husband would have sent them in much earlier and thought half the problem was that I understood them so well they didn't need to talk. Which did not explain why the girls talked at more reasonable ages (still later than average, mind you).

We did get one of our sons assessed when he was six or seven. They verified what I had figured out, pretty much, but, again, I'd done enough research to have a rough idea of when late talking indicates a problem deeper than being on the spectrum. With some kids, late talking indicates serious learning issues; with other kids, it's more like their brain develops in a different order than average. They're so busy with their own obsessions that learning language takes a lot longer. Some kids on the spectrum either aen't that interested in socializing, so they aren't as eager to learn to speak, or the kind of socializing they crave at that point has nothing to do with talking.

I also have a cousin who didn't speak until she was five or six, and then spoke in full sentences, which is another reason I was more sanguine about the situation than my husband. When asked why she didn't talk sooner, she said, "I didn't need to." She was surrounded by siblings and got all the social interaction she wanted at that point quite naturally.

I was like that cousin you mentioned. I didn't speak until age 5 1/2. I spoke in full sentences soon thereafter.

I had full-blown autistic traits as a toddler/young preschool child. I became more "Aspergian" in presentation as I got older.