Who/what do you think caused your AS?

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I was born this way, plain and simple.

I was just born the ways i am. no history of mental illness in the family or as or whatever.

I've been down that path before. Argh.

Now that I'm aware of the traits, I wonder about my father and my brother. Strangely enough, this particular brother isn't related to my father . . .

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I too am of the genetics school. ASD seems to be pretty dominant in my family. My mother definitely has traits. I tell my son that he has it because I was weird and his dad was weird, Weird begets weird.

My son is worse than I am in some ways, but better in others. We help each other through the world, that's for sure.

When I was 4.5 in 1987 I was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism, even tho HFA and AS are different according to the DSM, when AS was accepted in the early 90's if I was to go back indeed my DX would most certainly be changed to AS due to above all else, high intelligence.

Anyways... mine was cause by nature and nurture. Nature thru DNA selected me to have an ASD, or at least gave me the sensitivity to certain things in the environment such as electromagnetic radiation (or my dad beinging home nuclear radiation from 3 mile island prior to me being born or all the other nuclear facilities he was in). I think 1 of the many factors for the increase in ASD's is that as humans 'progress' their is more environmental changes occuring, such as more radio waves.

Their are so many factors... maby well never truly know....

I have a feeling it is in my family. I am not sure if this is a factor or not. But if there are families where first cousins were married to each other do you think that could be a contributing factor?

I think AS people have some traits that make them more likely to develop in an AS way, and then as they develop they take a wrong turning down a track in which they try and work out everything, rather than being more NT inutuitive. They build up this giant and deafening software system crashing in their heads, trying to work everything out logically, which drowns out their more intuitive NT functioning, and so cuts them off from the rest of humanity. The good news is I think we can unlearn this, switch off the systemising - http://unlearningasperger.blogspot.com/ - has been brilliant for me - very best wishes, JC