AS in your family and lineage

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Talk about how AS and social introversion runs in your bloodline.

My grandfather was an engineer. Apparently, this is one of the fields that are most noted for being associated with Asperger Syndrome. He did demostrate a lot of its traits, and, even in his Army days, he worked a job that had him off on his own most of the time. I don't know either way whether this necessarily indicates that he had AS, but he had a lot of the traits from what I remember of him.

In my mother's side of the family, I have a great-uncle who is definitely schizoid. He really prefers to spend most of his days sitting in his little chair, staring off into deep space without really taking much in about the world around him. He used to work with IBM, back in the days that it was still an emerging company, and he's even got a pressure clock on his counter that he was given as a gift for twenty years of loyalty to the company. Furthermore, the Parkers have always been considered weird on some level, which is in no small part due to them being horrid packrats. Not so much AS as simply having schizotypal personalities, but it's relevant enough to warrent mention.

My father's line is mostly foresters. They've always preferred to spend extensive time alone, out in the woods. They have their social side, but they've always tended to have a fetish for going off on their own out into the woods, just spending time on their own. I guess they just get a kick out of just wandering about on foot. They never really kept in contact with one another much, save through written letters. This is more on his mother's side, really. My old man carries this on by working as a land surveyor. He calls himself a redneck, but he's really more of a red-necked hippie, whether he knows it or not. The only reason he doesn't grow his hair out is that his friends thought it made him look like a girl.

There's probably more, but what about you? What in your line may be responsible for who you are?

my entire family is brilliant but 'odd' .. the worst cases have been diagnosed as bi-polar or schizod .. others have been ADD or ADHD and finally one was diagnosed as developmentally delayed .. maybe we're making progress.

Definitely my mother

I suspect that my mother and father are both on the spectrum. My grandfather was also a likely candidate. I believe it is definitely, a genetically based disorder.

No one else other than me in my family has been "officially" diagnosed as ASD, although my father has a lot of weird behaviors, and my mom describes her mother and her siblings (as in my maternal grandmother's fifteen or so siblings), as "ghoulish," insisting that she (as in my mother) is the "normal" one in her family...

My aunt on my mother's side could probably get a diagnosis if she wanted one (though I don't know if she would or not - at her age probably not). My mother's side of the family generally runs to exceptionally gifted people, famous lawyers, and left wing politicians, as well as autism (though never all at the same time). Weirdness goes with weirdness, I guess.

I have a cousin on my father's side who is more than ten years older than me who I am certain has Asperger's Syndrome. He was diagnosed with OCD while he was in college, and he still takes some kind of medication for it. He's a loner and pretty weird. I think my my mother's father also has AS. I don't know him well, because he lives on the other end of the country, but I inherited a lot of his traits and I identify with him a lot. He was an engineer. My mother is also an engineer. And my other grandfather was an engineer. I also have a great-uncle who is a loner. He hardly speaks, and he doesn't visit the family. He just stays in his house alone all the time, and no one knows what he does in there.

I also have a very young half-brother whom I suspect is on the spectrum. He walks on his toes and confuses things for people.

Both of my parents have traits. My sister managed to avoid the spectrum completely, though. A few of my younger cousins have AS.

my mom has AS and we suspect my uncle of being an aspie.

Many of my relatives have traits of AS, including my sister, my mother, one of my cousins and my grandad on the maternal line. I also have a distant relative with schizophrenia, apparently. But as far as I know, virtually all of my relatives are neurotypical.

Both my parent show/ed traits. I really wonder about my Dad at times tho
My nephew has AS/ADHD so that makes me wonder if the ASD is on my Mum's side of the family. I totally think it is genetic and I am not having any more kids to prove or discount that either lol

There is nothing here that I have not said before....

My mom exhibits alot of AS traits...socially akward, introverted, kinda always dresses the the same way...is prone to all-encompassing obsessions, of which she will speak endlessly and repeatedly...lots of sensory issues...has not held a job in years..like me, does not drive.
She is very right-brained and artistic...I mostly take after her...
I do not have an encyclopedic brain, but I do have alot of motor and sensory issues, obsessions, stims, social bonding problems etc....
Neither of us are diagnosed...

My dad's dad was a chemical engineer, and that whole side of the family is architechts and engineers. He was very methodic and scientific, often when he spoke it was often in the form of a lecture. He always dressed the same and tended to hoard things...or collect multiples of the same object...in his car, there was found something like 20 umbrellas/...that is just an example/tip of the iceburg...He was the person in my family who was the most concerned with my development as a child, and if he counts as being on the spectrum, his brother was a bit lower on the spectrum...highly intelligent, but a social hermit who never married and had to be forcibly removed from a fortress of stuff he had built around himself..

My mom has borderline personality disorder
My dad most likely has asperger's but thinks its total bs
My grandfather was a mathematician and computer scientist.. knew them both inside and out.. I wouldn't be surprised if he was on the spectrum

thats as far back as I know...

Genetic, sure. But I also suspect that we learn certain odd traits from our parents too. Imagine, we do "it" their way because it is how it's always been done and the method works well enough. My husband (who is adopted) does certain things just like his dad.

My mom could probably get a diagnosis of AS, socially stunted, highly verbal, poor visual, gifted with animals, bad driver, gets lost getting out of the bathtub. Her mom was an episodic alcoholic and a sociopath. Her dad was an engineer who used to go outside and burn trash when he was frustrated.

My dad is mostly normal, but has some traits, although I wonder if they were learned. His mom was a botanist with a hobby of restoring furniture. She was very highly, but self educated in both and "odd". His dad was a mechanical engineer and extremely professional at all times (rigid behaviour). His brother can't hold a real job but has a totally artificial public life that he invented - I think he's just crazy.

my mom was a computer programmer in the 60s. that and the fact that we both managed to piss off my ex-SIL and neither of us can figure out how or why, yeah, i'd bet she might be AS as well. her brother, definitely. her father, without a question. my brother has all kinds of stuff going on, but i'm not sure AS is one of them.

my aunt on mum's side has bi-polar disorder, my dad and grandad and some cousins all have signs of asperger's and are almost certainlly AS.