Do You Suspect Your Parent(s) Have AS ?

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Ohh ya, my father who is a nuclear engineer is more aspie then I am.

My father has some aspie traits. (in an mild form)

But he hates being labeled. He also tries to brush off my diagnosis once in a while. (I got mild asperger aswell) Not that I mind it that much, he just accepts me as I am, and doesn't want to label me handicapped.

So I would never have him get a dx ^^

Well, I know my mother is autistic. My biological father is diagnosed Schizophrenic, but that was after using a lot of LSD-I'm pretty sure it was LSD he used. Anyway, apparently he was such an odd/difficult child that his mother went into a deep depression and started neglecting him.
So he may have been autistic...who knows. I know to meet the criteria for Autism you can't meet the criteria for Schizophrenia, or something. But I'm more inclined to believe that his issues were drug induced, not something that happened naturally and that he was possibily misdiagnosed with Schizophrenia. Though I have no way to tell, considering the only time I've heard from him(by request of my mom, because well, he's not exactly a safe person to be around.) was on a birthday card for my 16th birthday.

I definitely think my dad might have it.

Pretty sure my dad does; several of my cousins on that side do, and the siblings (my dad and his 3 bro's especially, he also has 5 sisters) are known among their spouses ("the sisters-in-law") for "not playing well with others." My mom always says it's because there are so many of them that they never had to learn to talk to anyone else, but somehow I don't think that's it. Also, I'm nearly 30 and I'm pretty sure he's never looked me in the eye in my whole life.

He was a great father, btw, I like to point that out because I know a lot of people with AS worry about if they can be good parents. He taught me a lot about math and carpentry and the rules of basketball and baseball when I was little and I'm sure I spent more time in hardware stores than any of the other little girls in my class, but I liked knowing how to do things for myself, and I still pride myself on that. Now his main interests are golf, the Civil War (particularly battles fought in Pennsylvania), World War II (particularly American forces in post-1942 France), and the JFK assassination, and I'm not as interested in those things, but overall we get along.

My father has AS.

He's the typical "aspie": a lack of verbal/non-verbal socially communicative mannerisms, all encompassing narrow/focused interests that exclude everything else, a lack of empathy and the inability to offer emotional support to those who need it (emotional reciprocity).

Socially and vocationally, he's done pretty good for someone with Asperger's.

My father's side of the family has a history of (what would now be called) the autism spectrum. I suspect that my father, who is now 88, and his uncle, who died when I was around 4, were both on the spectrum.

I always knew my mother was different somehow, she always seemed to have sadness around her, like a lost child – she so often seem to be isolated in her own world.

I will never really know now if she had Aspergers but I'm very sure she did, after she died I started questioning things, which lead me to discover so much more.

I'm almost certain that my mom has it. This was one of the biggest clues that lead me to believe it was really what I had. She's dx'd with depression, ADHD, and OCD. Those dx's still don't come anywhere close to explaining the rest of her symptoms like the "tics" as she described them. Which of course weren't tics at all when she explained to me that she "wanted" to do it. A voluntary tic? Sounds like a stim to me. And she has REALLY BAD motor skills. Issues with eye contact and socialization. The rest of her dx's take care of the other symptoms but still fail to encompass all the issues she has like a dx of AS would.

Neither of my parents has it. They're both brilliant - my father could probably qualify as a genius - but they both function normally with others. Mom's a bit shy, but nothing out of the normal range. My twin brother is definitely NT. But my maternal grandfather, who died before I was born, was diagnosed with depression, and from everything I've heard about him it might have been a side effect of AS. I don't know. I do know my paternal grandfather is an almost textbook case. He's obsessed with the economy, can't talk about anything else, talks about it incessantly, doesn't have a clue how to act in social situations (all the friends he has are through my grandmother), is clumsy, has routines... actually, he behaves almost exactly the way I do, apart from being mathematically oriented. My parents sometimes accused me when I was little of having "Grandpa syndrome" as a joke, but I'm beginning to wonder. There wouldn't be a point to having him tested now, though.

I think my father has it, not too sure though.

no i dont but i do think my grandfather might have it.

I used to think neither of my parents was AS but then realised that they have some strange traits.

My father was very very sociable and intelligent but socially inept -- used to say things to people which came across as insulting.

My mother is unintelligent and has zero empathy with others.

Interestingly they had 6 kids one of whom (me) has AS. Of the other 5, one is very obsessive and another is sociable but socially inept and naive.

My dad's side of the family can be eccentric, but I am the only diagnosed Aspie. My mom's side of the family is definitely NT.

Tim

My paternal grandfather is solitary, intelligent, and absolutely obsessed with the Civil War and the Kennedy assassination. He has a whole library of books on just those two subjects.

My father is solitary, intelligent, and absolutely obsessed with World War I and journalism. He has the surface social skills I lack, but he could not express an emotion if his life depended on it.

Hm... I'm certain my father is autistic. I'm not sure if it's Asperger, but it sure might be. He's brilliant, extremely introspective, his capability of focus is amazing, but most of the time, he doesn't notice anything around him (when I say anything, I mean: he doesn't notice if he's wearing trousers or if he's leaving the house wearing only underwear, and things like that). My mother, she's also brilliant and quite eccentric. She doesn't fit very well in the real world, 'cause she's much sensitive and emotional, but I believe she's NT.