Anyone who has NOT relatives on spectrum?

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Actually I am struggling with my family history because my father died when I was very young; I suspect he had some "traits" even though probably not enough for a diagnosis - but it's wild speculation, since I can rely only on the few things I am told; I don't know that side of the family as well. Anyway, from what I can gather, I cannot think to anyone of my relatives that is clearly autistic, even though lots of them are "weird" in different ways.
I somehow suspect I have been the "perfect match" of my parents, being my father emotionally naive and lacking facial expressions etc, and my mother having (mild) sensory issues and a poor coordination, even though she's terribly NTish as for what the way of reasoning is concerned.

I don't have anyone with AS/ASD on either my mothers or fathers side of the family that I know of - not sure what side carries the gene.

Actually there are a hundred of genes somehow involved, and you don't even need to have all of them to be on spectrum, so it might be it comes a bit from both sides.

Hmm. Well. I don't know. My cousin might be, but I don't really know. I remember my mother, ages ago, at some point saying something about him along the lines of him "not understanding when he's being rude" which has led me to believe that he might be.
And well, my brother is very much like me. But he's way better at accurately reading people and empathizing and s**t. Oddly - he is more quiet than me but I am more introverted than him. If that makes sense to anyone. But I can't really judge or see what he's like as a person, I am basing a lot of this on what my mother said about him when I told her to describe him. Hm, he is also much more emotional and he seems to get angry quite often. I very rarely actually get angry, which I'm glad for.
But I think I'm derailed here, why am I even talking about my brother...

In my family, there is a cousin with dyslexia from mum's side and a cousin with ADHD from dad's side, but they aren't in ASD (my dislexic cousin has very high social skills and it's outgoing, my ADHD cousin has normal social skills)

We've got a lot of 'suspect' autism and suspect ADHD in our family but no genuine diagnosis except myself.

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

Mental illness runs rampant on both sides of my family, and some of my family members have traits of AS, but so far I am the only one who is diagnosed with it.

None. Though my mom has Aspie traits, like, missing social cues, having special interests and spending most of her time pursuing them, being stubborn and rigid, odd beliefs (that sounds more like schizotypal), having only one friend (she had none at her school years), considered "wierd" by most of my family...

None. I have several relatives with sub-clinical autistic type of traits.

Father's side: relative who has been diagnosed with autism, male cousin who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia

Mother's side: my mother has been diagnosed with depression (this diagnosis was made WAY before I was diagnosed on the autism spectrum)

Everyone else on both sides of the family are neurotypical.

My mom and sister are 100% NT, but my dad does show a few aspie traits. He can be really good at hiding them though.

My mom has some aspie traits, but she's told me she learned/taught herself some social skills since she was younger, so it's hard to say if she has AS or not. The only person in my family who probably has it isn't very closely related to me.

My aunt is diagnosed bipolar, but I strongly suspect she has Aspergers. She's 87 now and has dementia caused by mini strokes, so it's difficult to see it now. My mum says her sister has always been difficult. My mum also has traits (as did her Mum), but I'm sure would be considered NT. However, she's always had difficulties with friendships and I'm not sure if all the fall outs can be blamed on the other person. There doesn't appear to to be any ASD on my Dad's side of the family. My Dad's a quiet man, shy in fact, but I've never suspected him to be anything other than NT. However, he does have sensory issues (gets visibly upset when my daughter is noisy, etc). I gave him a letter to grandparents of a child with Aspergers, which I found online, and he could see a lot of himself in it. He's really good at concealing it, if that's the case. I suppose I've received a bit from both sides.

My family is quite 'odd', and we have a variety of Mental Health diagnoses, but no AS.

However, when I told my father, by email, that I thought I had AS, he went away and read up about it. And he emailed me last week to say he recognises a lot of AS characteristics in himself. Which would explain a lot, as he was certainly very different from other fathers when I was growing up. I don't really know him very well, I've only seen him twice in the last decade. He has lots of brothers, and my mother used to have quite a few conversations with my aunts about how odd the 'insert surname here' men were.

My sister is very sociable etc, but she does have diagnoses of Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, and ADHD, diagnosed only about 6 years ago when she went to university, in her 40s. She got her degree.

My mother has a bipolar diagnosis. I don't know any of her relatives, so I couldn't say any more about her side of the family.
Her stepson has Asperger's although that was recently changed to an Autism diagnosis. He's in his early 20s. I've only met him a few times, but we got on well. He might even be on WP for all I know. *waves*

Only one in either my mother or father's family diagnosed is my daughter. But I am fairly certain my brother was a HFA as he had a speech delay and even now can't hold a job very long. My father acts suspiciously like an Aspie. My conclusion is the genes are courtesy of his side of the family.