How Many of You Guys Who Have Asp. Children

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.... Suspect that you yourself have Aspergers?

And once you do... did you just go see your doctor?




Christine

A few months after I found out what Aspergers was and started to suspect I had it, my doctor actually brought up the subject and thus the diagnosis went from there.


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I'm 30, married, with no children...and won't be having any because my dogs fulfill whatever mothering instincts I may have. But I think my family experience may be an example that you're looking for. I learned about AS in February of this year and am convinced that I'm an Aspie. I also suspect that my father was an Aspie. But I don't remember a lot about him because he killed himself when I was 14, so I can't be sure. I also suspect that my 2 older brothers have Aspie traits, not sure if they're truly Aspies though. Not sure about my mom either, but anything's possible. So AS appears to be at least partly genetic to me.

When my eldest son was dx with AS two years ago, I knew nothing about it.
He was 18 at dx, and I think the reason it took so long, was because I thought he was just like me...
Over these two years I have read and discovered more about the condition and thought, wow! This sounds like me.
I have also just recently been diagnosed with AS.

I don't know if my daughter has AS, as she was taken from me at birth.
She would have been or is 38 this year and I always wanted to let her know about other family health issues. . .

Merle

Oh Merle! Oh.....







I suppose you've registered with the state so that if she contacts the state looking for you, a social worker would call you.
My beautiful baby boy in the AF now is registered in the state of TX in case his birth mother wants to find out what a great guy he turned into. My second daughter calls her birth mother and talks to her more than she does to me. I think. After all, she's a grown-up and doesn't tell me everything.

I am the only male member of my family for 3 generations who is not an engineer, I strongly suspect it runs in the family. I have a 22 month old boy and another son due in 6 weeks. I will certainly be aware of their leanings. I am new to understanding AS and I am unclear about what to wish for my children. I really appreciate some of my aspie world and wish it for my sons, but not all of it. I feel guilty for hoping for either NT or AS for my sons.

Thanks for all of the super fast replies and info everyone!! !

Well, the reason I asked was my son is basically Asp. (we are being diagnosed very soon, we are on a couple of waiting lists and basically have an appointed every month for the next four).

But my brother was sooooo Asp. They said autism growing up - but way back then they didn't do anything to really help my Mom with him.

My Dad passed a few years back, but going through his stuff was like - whoa... he was a strange strange man. We made dozens of trips to the dump from (bizzare) things he had collected. Pages and Pages of ruled numbers from his RRSPs. And once, at a very very important wedding, at 9:30, he just got up and said he had to go home.. it was his "soup time". When I met my husband he kidding saying you could set up a time lapsed camera and Dad would be doing the same thing every day at the same time.

Then... there's me = my shrink said I have "agoraphobia"... I think I am so Aspergers...

oh.. baby's crying.. gotta run.

See, thats me too. At 4pm, like clock work, I am eating. I dont even look at clocks. I'll be eating in the afternoon, and remember that, look at a clock... its 4:05, and I cooked what I am eating, so around 3 or 3:30, I started cooking. No conscious thought.

Likewise, I wake up on the hour with no alarm. if i say to myself "Get up at 8am", my eyes blink open and its within minutes of 8.

The other day I had a dream that i was trying to set the hour hand of a clock to the 12. It kept bouncing back.. suddenly I awoke and it was 11:50 am. I think my brain was waiting to wake.

Likewise, If i cook something in a microwave, i can stand up and walk over to it, without a hurry, just in time to stop it before it beeps(i hate that!).

Thats as close as I get to a talent. On the other hand, the other day I thought it was friday and it was saturday. and months? Forget about it. I got a letter for jury duty on october 1st, and was in a panic thinking it was in a few days. I forgot september exists. Apparently.

In July 2003, my oldest son (now 6 1/2) was diagnosed with Autism at 29 months old. It was just about 6 months or so later that I started coming to a realization that him and I shared more in common than I had thought after looking back at my childhood, at 31 years of age, I went to get a dx and was dx'd with Asperger's Syndrome. My youngest son while he has a few AS-like quirks doesn't have a dx on the Autism Spectrum but has been labelled "Gifted" after cognitive testing back in March 2007 (a couple months before his 4th birthday).

I am 27, and have HFA. My son is 6 and he's going in for an assessment in a few weeks with specialists. My 3 year old is still not talking, she toe-walks and hand flaps.