Engineer in your family?

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As an industrial engineering technologist, I'm as close as it gets.

Father, grandfather, and uncles on both sides are engineers, mathematicians, scientists or some sort of techy something. And so am I, so stereotype runs true in my family.

A high rate of self-employment among people with autistic traits could also be due to having trouble dealing with more standard working environments. Being self-employed, for all its difficulties, is still better than being unemployed, and it does give you a kind of control you don't have in a standard workplace.

As for the thread question, my dad was a physicist, not sure if that counts... if I have an ASD, I'm pretty sure his side of the family is where it came from. (Based not on the fact that he was a physicist, but on some of his behaviours that I'm seeing somewhat differently now I'm considering whether I might be on the spectrum.)

Good point. In my experience a lot of entrepreneurs tend to be a disagreeable lot in the eyes of others.

I wonder how ancient ancestry translates into this. I have 4 generations of engineers in my family, and a lot of my ancestors on my dad's side way before that were cloth merchants. I realize that going too far back a single ancestor may only make up a fraction of your DNA but I'm sure assortive mating was around for a while. Of course, the autism genes may have been introduced in my family more recently.

Brother and grandfather. My grandfather wanted my dad to follow after him, but he went into programming instead.

I know a boy with ASD and his father is a fourth gen. engineer
he has three Uncles also engineers
aunt has MSc in Maths
has 1st cousin engineer
has 1st cousin in biophysical engineering

I am the only person in my whole family who is an engineer. I am also the only one to have ASD as well.

No one in my family is an engineer or has any degree in math (or any degree at all). I don't have any engineer/math related relatives either.

The closest thing was my grandfather who was an accountant.

My family history is weird. On my dad's side most have autism, but on my mum's side they were all working in fabric factories other than my mum and my mum's dad, who died a couple years before I was born. My mum is a scientist - toxicologist to be exact, and I can't remember exactly what her dad was but he did loads of stuff with numbers. He did good math. Those are the only people in my family with education; my mum and her dad. Not sure what to make of that.

My uncle got a PHD in engineering and biology but he'd never gotten work.

My grandfather worked in the military but not sure if he had done any engineering work or not.

I particularly looked at some equations but had not gone through. I think I am the one that skipped the "intelligence gene" in my family and just winded being autistic.

What a waste right?

Yeah I'm the engineer in the family and my 2 sons are diagnosed autistic. Myself, not sure - BAP I guess.
The only other engineer I'm aware of was my grandfather.
Looking back on it now I reckon I'd be a better engineer today if there had been more engineers in the family when I was a kid. I spent a good part of my teenage years learning stuff from totally outdated books from the local public library, and trying (occasionally even succeeding, after a fashion) to build things out of parts salvaged from stuff that people threw out - i.e. learning the hardest possible way, all on my own. It was fun, but with a minimum of guidance from someone more experienced I could have done a lot more.

I have AS & one of my uncles is a chemical engineer but none of my parents or grandparents were.

Me, my father, and my maternal grandfather, all engineers.

I have a TON of ASDers in my family (none diagnosed, but me), but I'm the only Engineer----and, I wouldn't label ANY of us as mathematically gifted.

More scientist than engineer in my family.

I grew up in rural New England, and my grandparents on both sides made a living doing agricultural things like farming, delivering milk or mowing for the state highways. I don't know how old I was before I knew that there was such as a thing as engineers who didn't wear funny little hats and operate trains. So no engineers in my family that I know of. My biological father did construction work for a living. None of my aunts or uncles are engineers, either - just simple, rural folk for the most part.