Who/what do you think caused your AS?

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genes. to quote my mom, 'you inherited your dad's aversion to socialising and my shyness.'

oxygen starvation, genetics

Genetics for me. Nobody in my family has been diagnosed with HFA or AS, but my dad's side of the family has scattered, mild traits that indicate there are traces of the autism spectrum in our lineage. Of all the family, I seem to have the most extreme and only diagnosed case of it.

Genetics. Almost everyone on my mother's side of the family has some sort of neurological problem. Seizures, bipolar, depression, a grandmother who thinks she is Jesus Christ, an aunt who hasn't left her home in 7 years, Alzheimers in the very young, Down's Syndrome, Tourette's and I could keep going but it's depressing me to write it. Thankfully my father and his family are extremely NT and I got some good genes. I don't mind Asperger's actually.

I think I was just different from the time I was born. Nobody else in my family has it.

I think my AS came from my mother's family side DNA.

Maybe my grandmother is HFA or AS, she had three sons and six daughters (my uncles and aunts), almost all her daughters and sons are NTs and they had NT kids too, only one of her sons is deaf and has some aspie traits, but he never had kids. And although my mom is NT, I'm aspie.

I don't believe my AS was caused by mercury in vaccines. My grandma born in 1922, she lived in a rural town (where there weren't industries releted with mercury and other heavy metals) and she never got a vaccine.

I think mine was caused by the combination of the mercury in Mom's teeth and being born by induced labor. If I'd had all the immunizations kids get today, I'm sure I would probably have low functioning autism instead of high functioning autism.
After doing much research, I have come to conclusion that autism is caused by environmental factors, such as toxins, and that one is genetically predisposed to be sensitive ( or not sensitive ) to them. My Dad likely has AS, and my Mom ( who was born by induced labor) has many of the traits.
On the topic of vaccines, there are hundreds of stories of kids who were completely normal before receiving a vaccine, then becoming autistic AFTER getting the vaccine. Since the parents conceived, gave birth, and raised the child, I trust them more than the medical "professionals" who think parents are stupid and who only see the child a few minutes in their office. Oh, and who also have their hands in the drug company's pockets!

I've always wondered if it was "nature or nurture".

My parents are definitely not social. My father has on many occasions said that socialising & other people are a waste of time & a distraction.

I have a whole load of my father's cousins that I never even met until I was an adult. I feel sad about this as they were nice people!

We did mix with my mother's family, but my parents would not attend the Xmas gatherings, but took me & then came back (far too early!) to pick me up. Of course, I felt totally lost & out of place & really wanted my parents to be there!

My parents don't usually have visitors to the house & when they do come the atmosphere is really uncomfortable.

Other people have said that my parents are "odd". My dad has some of the qualities of AS but maybe not severe enough to be diagnosed. However, he is more the OCD type whereas I am more the Executive Dysfunctional type, so maybe I just don't recognise it in him.

I have no idea what my mum is - she has been my mum for 41 years & I can't say I actually know her at all. She has no life of her own whatsoever outside of the home & my dad. It is like she has totally shut her real self down. She is like me & my dad's slave. (Seriously.)

My paternal grandmother had a personality disorder but I have no reason to think it was AS. She often got obsessive & hysterical & was very difficult for me & my dad to be around.

I remember we used to go & visit her & my dad would be sat in one chair reading the newspaper, I would be in another chair reading a magazine, & she would be getting upset because we weren't having a conversation with her. My mum had to do that part.

Apparently the personality disorder ran in her family.

I also had a great aunt, my grandad's sister, who I now realise may have had AS. (I have often been told I am like her!)

Several weeks later, Noa finally notices this and has a chance to be witty:

Genes in combination with two , perhaps three, environmental factors :

Gluten acting on the development of my brain while in-utero ! !? AND/or on my brain once born, ( altered mental state and sensory states being expression my of genetically determined intolerance /sensitivity to it.)

Emotional environment very "dry", "cold", anal, aspergers ( my Dad probably is) ,controlling ( my mother is) etc.

Mercury in my mothers massively over-filled teeth , and gas during labour? Maybe.

genes... two brothers with ASD. father & pateral grandfather not dx'ed but def ASD. And then there's the uncles... and most of them are/engineers of one kind or another. The "Genetisists" seem to be the overwhelming majority...

If AS is really genetic, then I don't really know if I'm autistic, since I could attribute my insensitivity to having cold or unemotional people as role models, and watching Terminator 2 while I was a kid, and playing with Legos. Although since I've had it since the beginning, it does kind of make sense that it's genetic if I really do have AS. I think just having cold or unemotional role models (which were, by the way, of my own choosing) helped me accept that I had AS more easily.

I would think genetics. My father has AS, so naturally, so do I.

Yeah the only way you can get it is if you're born with it, right?

I have absaloutly no idea. No one in my family has it, or any other mental illness. My earliest memory is when i was 3, where i completly siezed up when one of my Playgroup classmates interrupted me painting to talk to me, and i know for a fact nothing happened to me before i was 3. It just seems I was born with it for no apparent reason

Yeah same thing JustSteph...