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Nightsun
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08 Jan 2010, 4:59 pm

I think that what a child need is 2 loving parent, economical and social stability. If you two can have those 3, there is no problem.

Do you "understand" love/caring?
Do you have a stable work?
Are you able to listen for 4 hours a baby crying hard?

If you think that you'll be able to give a baby whatever he need, there is no problem for an AS to have children.
And yes we have an higher chance. But what's the deal? I think that if you two want to have children you are happy? Isn't it?


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08 Jan 2010, 5:31 pm

styphon wrote:
I was told by a genetic counselor that if one parent is in the autistic spectrum, there is a 30% chance the child will be in the spectrum also. The scariest part: There is no correlation between severity of the parent and the child. A high functioning autistic has just as much chance of having a low function or high functioning child (and the reverse is also true)


I've read some studies about it but it's nothing "definitive", actually my psicologist doesn't agree, and I agree with her. It's far more probable that a child will have the neurological trait of his/her parents. For istance, if both me and my wife are Aspie but we have sense of humor (just an example), our child will probably have it.


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