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Select the option you think is more accurate, even if no diagnosis existed
Both my parents were aspies 10%  10%  [ 7 ]
Both my parents were aspies 10%  10%  [ 7 ]
My father was aspie, my mother NT 24%  24%  [ 17 ]
My father was aspie, my mother NT 24%  24%  [ 17 ]
My mother was aspie, my father NT 7%  7%  [ 5 ]
My mother was aspie, my father NT 7%  7%  [ 5 ]
Both my parents were NT, but some of my grandparents were aspie 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Both my parents were NT, but some of my grandparents were aspie 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
My parents and grandparents were all NT 8%  8%  [ 6 ]
My parents and grandparents were all NT 8%  8%  [ 6 ]
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10 Oct 2006, 3:31 pm

This question has been asked before. There should also have been the alternatives "My father is an aspie and my grandparents were aspies" and "My mother is an aspie and my grandparents are aspies".

My father and grand father are undiagnosed aspies. My mother and brother are NTs. My great grand father and/or great grand mother were aspies. My grandmother is probably an aspie. My grandfathers cousin is probably an aspie. My great grandfathers brother and his son are probably aspies.


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10 Oct 2006, 4:30 pm

My dad has some traits, not as "bad" as me though. My mom has a lot of OCD traits but is not AS. It's hard to call either of them strictly NT, though.

My son has it "worse" than me, so maybe it is intensifying generationally. :?:



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10 Oct 2006, 4:37 pm

Not necessarily, but it maybe comes out "worse" in boys.


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10 Oct 2006, 4:47 pm

hmmm...let's see...let me count the engineers in the immediate branches of the tree: grandfather, father, uncle, nephew...and number of 'odd', OCD, eccentric, obsessive, officially dx ASD females: mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, cousin, aunt. To start with. Don't let's go near siblings and children...

I'd say it's a pretty surefire bet that it's a genetic gift :wink:



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11 Oct 2006, 3:43 pm

I´m thinking maybe we can conclude that all aspieness is hereditary and those aspies who answered their parents and grandparents are NTs were being deceived, after all nobody has an NT diagnosis.

If so, it would be interesting to know if we can trace our roots back in time with the mitochondrial DNA and find the original aspie. Then we go back and kill him, hehehe... OK I need to go sleep now. good night.


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14 Oct 2006, 2:24 pm

My biological mother probably is an Aspie. They suspected a lot of mental health problems with her but crucially enough, they said my "behavioural and communication difficulties", which we now know is AS, were congenital.

About my biological father I don't know. And I'm adopted to parents who are definitely not Aspies.



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14 Oct 2006, 2:37 pm

I believe my great-grandfather, Adolph Milata, may have been aspie, but I never met him. I think he died in the 1960s. My mother is also bipolar, and my aunt may be a little bit aspie.


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