Who/what do you think caused your AS?

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I'm askoing who/what do you think caused yours, not who/what do you think causes AS.


I think mine is bad karma with my mom, me being wired a LITTLE TINY BIT differently, getting off to a bad start with people and me learning certain behaviors from that experience, and thus having even worse experiences, and it kept accelerating in that fashion. So a bad-luck situation.


What do you think caused yours?

DNA

Backed up with proof AS cases on both sides of family (including both parents)

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My families genetic history going back centuries we have Aspies/Auties.

Being born. I think it's all genetic. None of my family that are still alive have been diagnosed with autism or AS though. Some of them have a few traits though, my mom does in particular. She obviously has obsessions. She doesn't stop talking to me about this army game she loves. I like my mom. She's quirky.

My answer is the same as ghostgurl's.

Tim

My mother was frightened by a NASA ground controller while still pregnant with me.

I truley don't know. I sometimes think I notice some traits of ADD or ASD in my mother's side of the family, but I can't be sure, because these moments are short and I am proven otherwise the moment after. I'm the odd duck in my family. Maybe the nurses confused me with another baby in the hospital (this was a joke).

I'm guessing it was my apparent tendency to attract virtually all the maladies that have been thrown at my immediate family.

Seriously, I'm like a sponge for that stuff. Before my mother got breast cancer (she survived, thankfully), I was "the sickly one", the weakling runt of the litter despite being the oldest child.

Am I not how God made me??

It has to be genetics. This did not stop my counsellor when I was 15 trying to work out which member of my family had sexually abused me, (errr, none of them!)

I also must say genetics. My father is a clear-cut case of AS or HFA, my mother maybe was AS, I have a 6 year old autistic daughter, and I fit the criteria for AS as well. As does my only sibiling. For me its definatly DNA. I wonder if people who say its the immunzations, really believe that, or are only deluding themselves rather than see that THEY may have been the reason their child is "on the spectrum". Or maybe it's because theres ALOT of money in that fund. Who knows?

You are born with AS. I'm pretty sure It came from my dad, partly. I got the Aspie gene fromhim, i'm sure. he seems pretty aspie to me.

Me too, I think. My sister also shows AS symptoms, and one or both of my parents must be the cause of it.

or some long distant relative.

I think they like having something specific and physical that they can fight against. It also probably gives more meaning to their child's struggles if they feel like they can change the legislation and help future children. But really, I think it's mostly that it's easier to fight the policies of the big, bad FDA than to accept the role of chance in their child's life.

My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents?