Are you the only person in your family that is aspie?

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I damn sure that my dad's got it. My grandma (dad's side) might have it too but I dunno she is probably just introverted.

And my mom is either bipolar or just plain alcoholic.

Either way my genetics were doomed to be screwed.

My dad was quite vehement in his reaction when I told him I was seeking an assesment; and I've come to wonder if it wasn't partly due to the fact that he has a hell of alot of AS traits...

Yes.

The only one with any sort of official diagnosis is me, though I suspect several members on father's side. I have a second cousin who has epilepsy and is completely dependent on his parents despite being in his 40's, but no physician has ever jumped to the conclusion. My father has many of the traits, but getting him to see a doctor for anything is next to impossible, so I have never approached him about the possibility. My mother's side are primarily socially-fit extroverts though I have a cousin who had a child that was initially diagnosed with autism, only to be later retracted.

Probably not.

Any of my relatives who say:
"She's fine, there's nothing wrong with her."

Are probably mild AS.

They do have a point though, what is "wrong" anyway?

It's probably come from both sides of the family looking at it now. There's probably unidentified ADHD, NLD and other things in there too.

Now I realise that for all these years, I was blamed for acting like some of my relatives.

I do wonder about these so called "child development books" what if some people really don't fit any preconceived mold?

What about healthy deviations and biological variation?

Not allowed for, according to those books, your child isn't normal if he doesn't do X, Y and Z.

I think that it's unfair for some parents to expect their kids to reach "social milestones", when the parents did not actually reach these social milestones themselves.

The terms normal and appropriate aren't explained that well either.

In my immediate family, yes.

My cousin on my mother's side has a learning disability, but I don't think it's autism.

Two of my mother's own cousins also have learning disabilities (one is quite severe, I think). Her uncle, my great-uncle, also apparently spent some time in a psychiatric hospital.

Something appears to be 'up' on that side of the family...