Anyone with lots of Autism in their family?

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Not everyone in my family has had a Neurocognitive exam, but they are pretty easy to spot. My mom's dad, my mom and my dad, me, my son and I have three of ten grandchildren with autism. Everyone from me on down has been tested.

I have heard a few people mention a parent, but I was just wondering if there are others with clusters of quite a few people on the spectrum in one family. I feel bad. I know I passed it on down. But, I'm thinking that having both parents with traits was probably the reason. They didn't know, I didn't know.

Anyone?

Guess not

My parents have never been tested, but both of my parents exhibit very atypical behaviour. My dad thinks hes autistic and I agree with him, and my mother is very notably atypical.

My mother for example does everything in a routine, she has no friends, she works but she doesn't associate with any colleagues, from an outward perspective looking in most people would assume she's on the spectrum.

My father on the other hand is more like me, neither of us have a single friend, we're rendered almost deaf in most situations due to sensory issues, for example we can hear things perfectly fine if there isn't more than one layer or noise but if there are multiple people speaking or if there's music on in the background we can't actually hear any distinguishable noise as it all just melds into one noise-blob, my mother is also similar in that regard. Both my father and I are quite oblivious to facial expressions and it takes a little while before someones inflection comes through, we both have very strange rigid interests, neither of us actually understand people which is probably why neither of us have friends. We both took a very long time to socially mature (I'm still years behind the average 24 year old).

There are a lot of things I've probably missed. My father also thinks that his father was autistic. We've all been raised with the "suck it up and get on with it" mentality so none of us got tested as children, which is probably why I totally failed my schooling because I just couldn't keep up or understand anything.

From a unofficial perspective, it would seem that there are multiple people on the spectrum in my family.

Nope.....a whole bunch of "neurotypicals."

My brother's wife's sister has two children with relatively "high-functioning" autism.

My family does!

Apparently a few distant cousins in my mum's dad's side of the family have Asperger's. I think that's where the faulty gene comes from.
My brother now has Asperger's. My mum doesn't have an ASD but has always been highly anxious and prone to depression and pessimism. My mum's sister is being assessed for it, and her daughter has learning difficulties and some subtle social difficulties but that doesn't count as ASD. One of my cousins on my dad's side has always been different, socially withdrawn, highly anxious and exhibited other ASD symptoms but has never been tested.

Everybody else escaped the sh***y gene. I wish I did.


Nobody in my family seems to be severely affected by ASD though.

I only basically ever knew my mum dad and sisters and one aunt and uncle
my mum didnt get on with most og her family and my dad wasnt close to his family
so I wouldnt know if others were autistic but I know my parents or sisters were not autistic
my mum was a popular and extrovert nt and had lots of friends

Not with my family of both sides. Through in-laws with my cousins most likely -- but more like ND than specifically autistic.

And where mine came from? I don't know. It must've been luck or something further away from the present.
Had my sights on my paternal grandfather and great-grandfather (they're father and son), but... Other than being too late, there's also a lot of doubt in it too.




I don't even know any relatives with psychiatric issues, save for a few that did had issues due to circumstance.
But born that way or even be as susceptible?

Then I hadn't inherited any of these 'vulnerability', might as well inherited the opposite of vulnerability as possibly most of my relatives did.
It's like having a minus zero if not more pluses against psychiatric issues as an autistic all over again. The same applies with my relatives of any neurology.

Developmental issues? I've yet to see any other than my own. Not even the more visible kinds.


Within my family:
Never met a masking aspie. Never met a hyper-verbal aspergian. Never met any special interest obsessed person. Never met any nonverbal autistic. Not even a sight of dyspraxia. Not even those alexithymic types. No 'sensitive' ones either.
No ADD-like type... Scaredy-cats, phobia-plagued, prone to being startled or shocked, plenty with heart conditions that cannot afford to have any of these heck yeah but... Not a single anxious type and I know when I see one.
Almost never met anyone awkward. Not even a single late bloomer -- or what is considered a late bloomer in this culture.
Introverts and socially shy ones I've met don't relate well nor do seem like they're even ND to begin with.

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I'm the only one who's got it confirmed but I'm pretty sure that my mum, my maternal grandma, my sister and my nephew would all get a diagnosis if they sought one. My mum and grandma take routines to the extreme and neither are good at being social, my sister used to have major meltdowns when younger over things like the food being wrong and my nephew gets very anxious around people, has difficulty with change, sensitive to certain sounds and has a special interest in trains.

As far as I know, I'm the only one. I am the only one in my family who has also never really accomplished anything of real value.

My mothers Mum was said to have nurvous exhaustion etc... It was in the days before autism was recognised in the UK. If I am assessed to be on the spectrum, my Mum also is, as she does share some similar aspects, and she also went into incredible depth... She is like a walking dictionary.
So if I am found to be on the spectrum, I can say for sure that my mother and my grandmother also were on the spectrum.

Is this possible? Is it normal for it to go down families?

I actually feel sorry for my Dad. My Mum and I along with one of my brothers 3 years younger thought in roughly similar aays. I would say my Dad was an NT, and he was quite differe t to us. Though my brother 3 years younger I would say is more half way inbetween. If I am found to be on the spectrum, my 3 years younger brother might also be. I am not sure. He has lots of children so it is hard to tell.
However, I do have another brother who is 18 years younger, and he is not likely to be on the spectrum. He is totally different. He is one who seems to attract friends wherever he goes. He is very sociable. My dad was like that. My dad had the amazing ability to get along with strangers, and even go up to them and start up conversations... My mother generally relied on him to get friends and we disn't really notice this until after he died.

Besides myself, there are 3 others in my family who are officially diagnosed and several others who probably are but haven’t been tested.

Thanks guys, I don't feel so bad now.

I think both my parents have traits but probably aren't on the spectrum. I have an uncle who is definitely autistic (it's been widely acknowledged in my family and his girlfriend independently came to the same conclusion though he's never been diagnosed) and 2 out of my 5 siblings are almost definitely autistic too (my parents agree), but don't seem interested in a diagnosis.

My mum has speculated that perhaps my grandma (her mum, same side as my uncle) perhaps might be on the spectrum too. We get on really well in the sense we can both sit in silence quite comfortably together, we're really similar in many ways, and we have a more special relationship than she has with my other siblings (I am definitely her favourite). My mum says she is as 'hard to read' as I am, and there are maybe some other clues such as that my grandma found being affectionate to my mum and her brother hard when they were kids. I'd say she's quite social, but actually most of her socialising revolves around organised groups (she's very involved in her church) and as far as I can tell she only actually has one close friend and prefers to spend a lot of time by herself.

Yes. Relative to myself: traits in mother, sister, niece, child, aunt, cousin ---- grandparent and cousin with schizophrenia.