Relatives with AS symptoms

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How many do you have, is it possible that there are more relatives in family who have symptoms of autism or asperger?

Can some relatives not be autistic and yet have some of the autistic behavior?

Autistic traits are just that - traits, part of what makes a person who they are. It takes far more than a handful of autistic traits to make a person autistic.

I've noticed there seems to be Asperger's traits among some of my relatives, but then I just think to myself that not all NTs are the same and that it could just be to do with all sorts of things, like shyness or depression or whatever.

My mum is NT but since she's gotten older she doesn't like socialising, and says she'd rather avoid vacations that involve mixing with other people. I'm glad she feels like that because that's exactly how I feel about mixing. When I go on vacations I go to explore and enjoy myself. I don't go to put more pressure on myself. Mixing with strangers inwardly makes me feel stressed (more so if it's an obligation), and the whole idea of going on a vacation is to relax, not feel worse.

My mum's sister tends to have a lot of visible AS traits, and sometimes she forces herself to appear more social but does make a lot of social faux pas, although not big enough to make her look ridiculous, but enough to be noticed if you pay close attention. Plus she has a lot of other unusual quirks. She could be diagnosable, but I'm not entirely sure.

My brother seems AS-ish, but he never caused concerns when he was a child, and so I just reckon it's depression built up, especially from having a sister (me) with AS who was quite a handful for my parents growing up. It seems that sometimes NT siblings can be emotionally affected if a sibling has AS or Autism. I really don't know why. Sometimes make me feel guilty, like I've let him down.

One of my teenage cousins often says he feels shy when going to the pub because he doesn't know what to say to most people, so he has now given up on going out on week-end nights, and prefers to go somewhere quiet with his friends. Also he is gifted, he's always been able to focus more on tasks like art and music, and has done some brilliant drawings from memory, and also has some wonderful talent with his guitar. But despite all that, I still know he is not Aspie.

My family is full of traits to varying degrees. My mom is the most socially adept, so she doesn't really fall on the spectrum (or so we think, anyway) but my brother is seriously socially ret*d. He's the worst out of the lot of us, very much exactly like his grandfathers. We all have traits. Even my NT husband has some traits, but he is obviously not on the spectrum. Even my cousins exhibit traits, although it is yet to be determined on whether anyone else is actually on the spectrum. When you have a large family and everyone is "weird", people usually don't think about getting checked out, or that therapist/psychiatrist/psychologist just treats the symptoms without further testing.

I know. That is why I meantion it since carring the traits means they probably have a probabilty of passing on the autistic genes. Note I am not very good at understanding this yet.

Don't worry- even the leading experts in the world don't really know what causes autism. I think there was a Cambridge study that implicated dozens of genes which are also found in the general population, but are more likely to be found in autistic individuals, which would lend credence to your hypothesis.

my dad and my aunt has a few but they are both Co-dependents with a lot of anxiety issues. my mom seemed to have some like how she had to sit in the same spot and that shes emotionally distant but thats really it

My cousin is autistic
My sisters and mother are dyslexic
Dint know if dyslexia is linked
I explain aspergers as social dyslexia sometimes to her

I have a non-verbal cousin who is currently in the process of being diagnosed. Quite a lot of people on my mum's side of the family have ADHD (my oldest cousin, my brother and possibly my mum). My mother thinks my father has Asperger's, although I don't know him well enough to comment. The members of my father's family that I know all seem to have social difficulties and major anxiety issues.

My family is riddled with autistic traits.

There are relatives with many traits in my family, but not to the point where they would be diagnosed autistic.

My uncle isn't very sociable and always had a hard time with people. He also liked taking things apart and has anxiety.

My great uncle never had a relationship and he was a loner and he said friends and wives were lot of work. He also liked taking things apart and putting them together again. He never socialized either.

My mother is sensitive to bright light so florescent lights bother her and the sun and she was very naive when she was young.

My dad is socially inept, says inappropriate things and doesn't seem to have good empathy and doesn't understand what he did wrong

My youngest brother had difficulty with transition to change, also has an acute sense of smell and taste so he was a picky eater. He sometimes had a hard time with friends

My grandmother had a hard time with change in her environment and she was literal and also said the wrong things and thought "it's the truth" and she was very organized and liked things the same. Had a good detailed memory about her life, also was the first person to smell food rotting in the fridge before anyone else. She also did not like her skin touching each other so she was always digging into her arm pits like I was. She also did not like crowds and they made her anxious. She also had anxiety.

I can't say if all if them have it or the traits and my parents have said my grandma had it and then my mom said my uncle may have it and then she decided my dad does too and I told her he has to have more than social issues to have it.

ADHD, learning problems, and speech problems all run in my family. So does innocence and naivety. My uncle I mentioned above has dyslexia. Plus one of my dad's brothers didn't start talking until he was three. I don't know who that was. My dad has very little dyslexia in him. He also told me he will sometimes get numbers mixed up. He also has ADHD. He will also tap his feet or pace.

Plus I have a cousin with ADD and she can't even keep work because she gets bored and moves on and she can't even keep a guy because she gets bored with him I was told and she moves on. Plus she is also very dramatic and she says other people were always wrong so she quit listening and she is in her own world and doesn't see the big picture and thinks of herself. My mom describes her as self centered.

I have a cousin on my Mom's side who does better with older people who are elderly and she is also shy and has social problems. I don't know what hers are but I was told we are both alike. Her mother has a learning disability so she was held back twice or three times. My mom once told me she could have AS.

Then there is my schizophrenic aunt. I can remember my grandma telling me a story about when she was in junior high, she had these friends and she was trying to wear what they wear so they would tell her what they would be wearing the next day. Instead she would go in wearing what they were wearing but instead have something else on so she would call home and my grandma had to come and get her so she could change into what her buddies were wearing. This happened everyday and then one day my grandma refused to come and take her home so she could change. She thinks her friends were teasing her and my aunt didn't know it so that hinted to me a touch of AS.

Plus my Mom's mother seems to be detailed oriented because my brother mentioned he finds mistakes in movies all the time.

My father has many AS traits.
He also has a lot of vocal tics.
I know he was once diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (in fact I inherited it from him).
But he developed those traits after a meningitis when he was 6.

my dad and my brother and my grandfathers all have/had AS traits. my bro and my grandfathers might have even warranted a diagnosis. I have a cousin who was diagnosed AS, but doesn't really fit the criteria (his mom and he had a major wtf moment when they were told he had it) and I have another cousin with non verbal classic Autism.

One or two of my siblings seem to have AS tendencies. My two uncles and aunt seem(ed) so, too. At least one of my cousins sounds so, too. None of us has been diagnosed. Probably the idea of AS never even crossed their minds, either. I have always been wondering about those socially awkward tendencies that seem to run in our blood. Now I think I have found the answer.

I have a nephew that has been diagnosed with aspergers.