If AS has a genetic factor...

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...which of your parents do you think has it, or at least shows the most traits of it?

There's a poll too, just for fun and japes.

Both I think.

Both.

My father USED to be a lot smarter, has a STRONG interest he has been in for almost his entire life, lucked into meeting my mother, seems to have problems socially, took about 40 years to marry again(Which he found through his interest), and is generally pretty solitary.

He DID succumb to peer pressure, shows no sensory skewing, loves sports, and is TOO sedentary.

So I probably wouldn't consider him AS, but he DOES definitely have some AS traits.

It is just too hard to tell sometimes.

Steve

My late father had stereotypical AS traits, something I only realized three years ago while researching my daughter's symptoms (she's dx'd AS, and I am going through my own official dx process right now). He was an executive engineer, solitary, brutally frank, distant, with a host of quirks, but one hell of a great man in many respects. My mother, when she was married to him (they divorced when I was twelve), used to constantly justify her extramarital affairs by telling me that my dad was "gay" because he wasn't very sexual, and that he was "cold."

My mother.
I think that she and my sister have it, and my aunt, and my two brothers and their father (my mothers 1st husband; he was a renowned Sasquatch hunter).
We have always been considered a strange family....
My mother has a sister with Rett's Syndrome, and my youngest daughter shows definite signs of AS.
I may be the mildest case amongst us all.
Life has not been boring...!

Definitely my dad. He annoys the hell out of me... but he is more alike to me than I would sometimes like to admit.

Ditto, though i'm prettier.

My father has some traits but i doubt he has AS, he is very straight forward, won't take any crap and if you mess up he'll let you know, and he won't spare your feelings.

My vote: both, is a guess. Frankly I do not have great recall of my youth. I was not only AS, but my faimly was truly unkealthy. Sally jesse wanted to do a me and sis reunion! The beatings (undeserved: punishment is in the hands of the punished) were severe and frequent. I went inside my head.
But yeah, both mom and dad seem to me to have had AS traits. I'd guess a genetic tendency. Also: whilst at first my sis doubted my self diagnosis of AS, as she has learned more, she believes me right - and also suspects one of her sons. The son that I especially love!

My mom seems to have it, but only to a small degree as it appears. She's incredibly social, but outside of that she enjoys seeing how things work and does repetitive things--the common symptoms.

Both, but more my dad, and I am "worse" than either of them and my son is "worse" than I am. As I noted in a post elsewhere, in my family, it seems to grow in severity, or at least in marked distinction, with each generation.

I think both my parents have AS-ish traits.

My father is very much a loner (although married with kids), he is a "nature boy" and needs a lot of time alone in nature. He also has a terrible temper; he gets easily frustrated and is quick to rage, although it blows over quickly too. Unfortunately apart from those two things I don't know much about him, except that he should NOT have had kids.

My mother is very proper in regards to speech, grammar and manners, obsessively clean and tidy, highly sensitive to eating noises, not particularly affectionate, and can be kind of stand-offish sometimes... she is also very scatterbrained, which is getting worse as she gets older.

Interestingly, my husband's parents both show some HFA/AS traits as well, but my husband himself has almost none. He's not exactly your average NT but he is far from aspie. Luck of the genes, I guess.

Neither

My dad was once tested to have ADD but he didn't have it. My mother never had it. Nor did my extended family. Besides I don't know much of my families history. Probably it came from either my dad's side of the family or my mother's. Most of my mother's family is decessed.

mother's, my mother's father has it

My dad was definitely AS. My mother isn't diagnosable though she is a bit eccentric. But both sides of my family ASDs seem pretty rampant even though my mom isn't fullblown. The men on both sides of my family tended to show stronger traits.

It's my dad. Although he's never been dx'd, it's pretty obvious, he has all the same characteristics as me. He was married before, and one of his grandsons from the previous marriage has AS also, but in a much worse state than any of us in the current family.

My brother is a classic case too, with the early (and exceptional!) language skills, and the massive lego structures he'd build in the basement. He's never been dx'd either.

I think the only reason I went to the Doctor is because the AS bothered me, I knew something was wrong, and a)didn't understand it b) didn't like it and c) wanted to change it.

My father and brother haven't really been negatively affected, so they're pretty happy. They never cared that they didn't "fit in". It's just taking me a lot longer to get there...