is it possible ...?

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after being away from my family for a yr i whent back yeserday just too see them and i noties some thing im not sure if i realy saw it or wether im making something out of nothing

i think my entire faily on my father side is or has autistic traits ! !!

i know i have alot of the traits but i was watching my family and i what i saw amazezed me

my father : stared of in to space for no reason hes always done it he cant seem to look people in the eyes and he has very rigid rules he cant change then (it seems like it hurts )

Keir (my oldest brother ) dosent like many food and the only way he can cope with so much in put is to dink (we hae discussed this befor and he says he prolly is autistic )

Alex (my second oldest brother ) has odd behaviour he dosent keep up comuincation and he has emotianl problems and is very strong even thos he dosen work out hes just strong

james my young brother lies constantly and h ant tell the diffrence between fact and fiction and he cant look people in the eye

my sister (the nly one there is ) dsoent understand other people have emotions or that she says urt full things

my grand father who passed away has all of these symtoms

we are all functioning normal people but we are an odd family people just dont ge us

do you think its possible we are all autisic t? oram i nuts ?

I suspect my whole immediate family have AS. Possibly with one exception; I don't know what in the world to think about my mother in this regard, I go back and forth in her case. I also suspect my grandmother on my father's side is or was AS, she's incompasitated now, has alziemer's, so I don't know. I wonder if I'm nutz to think this too, maybe we are, maybe not, but its nice to know I'm not alone here.

I don't see why not! I can see traits in lots of members of my family. My father, for sure, is as aspie as you can get, and his brother is very similar. Also on that side of the family are two brothers (my dad's cousin's sons) who I don't know that well but neither has ever had a girlfriend to anyone's knowledge and they are the same age as me (nearing 40). My cousins may not be AS but I'm not sure they're entirely NT either!

Of course, they can, especially when they've never heard of autism.

All of my family has at least one trait. My great-grandfather may have had AS. I've been told I'm a lot like him. My uncle has a few traits, but I don't think he has AS. His social skills are too good.

All members of my family have autistic traits; but none of them are Aspie/Autie. My deceased father might have been, though never diagnosed, but I didn't know him well enough to tell.

I think it is possible that you could be the only NT in a village full of autistics and be treated as the village idiot

i may end up looking a right prat for saying this but i dont under stand the last two post what you you mean ?
what is NT?

(go a head laff i know you want to )

NT= Neurotypical, e.g. people who's neurology fit the parameters commonly identified as "normal". Don't worry, it's a tern that isn't used much outside AS circles.

OoOOoOOOooo i get it now i think made my head hurt but i think ive got it now i just need to find soe place to put it down

Seems reasonable to me. The Broader Autistic Phenotype from what I've noticed runs heavily through certain families. My mother's mother's side could be considered as such.

To be fair though, I dont' think I could find a single person who doesn't have at least ONE trait.

there might be a lot of aspergers in your family and a few person who have diffuculties relating to them, confused because of the aspergic energie (especially if they are not aware of it and feel the difference with other places like school, friends, etc)

Of course all of my immediate family are pretty much. Both my younger brothers, my father his father and now my mother is suspect because one of my brothers diagnosed in the last year was a half brother

Autism is becoming a more popular diagnosis. I would find it hard to believe that every member of an entire family of Aspies would never hear of AS or HFA in their lifetime.