AS and children

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I was wondering if there was a definite % chance on passing AS down to your children?
And to other members who have had kids, was this a concern for you? Was adoption concidered or anything? (I'm not against AS at all, but I do know how hard it can be raising a person with it)

I have read that the chance of having a kid with AS/Autism if you have it is increased, but still not 100% of course. Unfortunately, I don't have a source to give you. There might be something about it on Wikipedia (check the articles on Autism, Asperger Syndrome).

I have Aspergers and have two sons, one with autism and one possibly with Aspergers. Passing it on doesn't matter to me, they are who they are for a reason, they are who they are meant to be diagnostic label or not.

i think choosing to adopt is a bit shallow. AS has just as many strengths as weaknesses in my opinion. As for genetics, My mother & my child have severe NLD/Aspergers as do I & interestingly so does my half-brother (same mother - different fathers), so yes, I do think there's a great big genetic link-up there somehow, someway!

Raising children with AS can be difficult (but not always). And also, not everyone views AS as a positive. Based on my own experiences in life, I can safely say I would give a limb to be normal. That may sound horrible, but it's simply the way I feel. For this very reason, I may never have kids.

Besides, there are too many children in the world that are starving anyways. Why bring even more into the world when you can take one of the existing ones in and give them a better life?

So yeah, I don't think choosing to adopt is shallow...I think it's noble, AS or no AS.

I am adopted and think I have AS as well as a family history of depression and slcoholism(think my bio mother also has AS)point being...adoption is no guarentee of a "perfect child"..many of the familys that break up or put children up for adoption have their own disfunctions,obviously it takes something pretty drastic to give up your child...even if it is just having the child when you were to young to take care of it...this can be because the mother had psychological or addiction problems(not always )but it should be considered when adopting so that the parents can look for and help the children if such heridity issues start...my parents refused to get me help when I was younger because they were Christian Scientist and this has made my life much more complicated then if I had been raised by people who were aware of such issues...

As far as having children my self...I dont have the temperment myself...to selfish and see no reason to bring a child into a world that I dont like myself...I will stick with adopting animals from the shelter