Do you have a severely autistic relative?

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Hi I am just curious to know who has as least one severely autistic relative? I have at least one second cousin - a daughter of a cousin - as well as a few other relatives that are on the spectrum that are mild, even some old relatives that have long passed on.
By severe I mean either profoundly or severely MR.

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I don't...my sister is on the spectrum but I wouldn't call her severe. She was labeled with PDD-NOS as a kid but acts very Aspie now.

Nope.


I have many relatives on the spectrum, all undiagnosed, but none severe like that. Not "classical autism".

My cousin's kid is autistic. I don't have much to do with them since they live in another state so I can't say if it's "severe" or not. Only like 6 years old.

I don't believe in "severe" so much. My son is "classic autistic". His IQ is at or above normal range, he speaks at "age appropriate level" but has significant language difficulties

No, but there are other problems like ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and OCD that run in my family. However, I don't have any of those, nor does my mom. Although I'm sure my dad has ADHD.

My cousin was severely autistic.

no

My great-grandmother was LFA. She died when I was about 4 so I can't remember her. But my grandmother told me that my great-grandmother was LFA.

My aunt had Rett Syndrome which is an autism spectrum disorder and pretty severe, I would say.

None that I know of. --However, it was also common in the 50's and 60's in the US for Doctors to tell parents of profoundly autistic children to have them institutionalised and essentially forget that they existed.

I have a uncle who is kind of like me... in regards to social skills and things. I don't know if he has AS or not... and my Grandma's brother acts very similarly to that uncle.

No one in my family is extremely autistic or anything... I have a young cousin that may have AS... she has the little professor thing going on.

I don't have any realatives that fit the low functioning autistic diagnosis. Yet we can trace back over 150 years of people in my family that fit Asperger's, and HFA rangeing from very mild to severe. I'm considered quite high functioning Aspergers, but I test as severe PDD on tests that don't differentiate on AS PDD-NOS, or Kanner's syndrome.

my cousin has autism and learning difficulties and severe OCD

Then again, a LOT of women figure the men in their lives have ADHD!

I've never met any of my relatives on my father's side of the family. He's the only one I know...
Interestingly though, when I was growing up I overheard my parents in a heated argument, and my mother saying something about my father having had a brother that was "sent away" as a child because he was "different". After learning about my own likelihood as a candidate on the spectrum, I recalled having heard this, and am inclined to believe the veracity of what she was saying - and that the scenario Fogman mentions is in fact what happened, as this would have taken place in the late 40's or early 50's.