Do you have schizophrenic relatives?

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One of my mom's cousins has it. She's sort of like the family dirty secret – I only see her very rarely, but when I do she's either in the corner talking nonsense or so drugged up she just sits and stares into space. It's awful. She's done things like stripping her clothes off in restaurants, beating my aunt's car with a crowbar until it was wrecked, and physically threatening a lot of my relatives, including my mother. When I had my first manic phase everyone was worried I'd end up like her. Last I heard she was living in a mental hospital.

My dad is schizophrenic. He lives a quiet life alone...seeing and hearing things. He refuses to go to a doctor for anything. Growing up was scary because his halucinations were evil. Mom worked, so I took care of him. My Grandpa bought me a piano, and paid for lessons. I've been playing for 34 years. After a few songs, my dad seems to be at peace. I still care for him, and gave im a CD of me playing piano. I've watched him struggle his entire life, but I visit him to remind him of his success: a daughter who loves him.

I wonder if there's a higher incidence rate of Aspergers in families touched by schizophrenia?

Definitely higher chance of mental illness...

I have an uncle with Schizophrenia.

I have a cousin that has had schizophrenia for a while. In our family, me & my cousin i think r the only ones with mental illness.

My dad has bipolar and schizophrenia. He abused me mercilessly when I was a kid. Now he yells at people over the internet, on discussion forums, all day long. He's medicated now. He is fascinated by World War 2, his father was a POW in the Japanese-occupied Philippines, so he collects old war movies and such.

In fact, some people blamed the fact that my grandfather had a kid so fast after coming back from the war on my dad's problems. When the POWs got back to San Francisco, the city was thrown open to them. The young debutantes of the city were ordered to entertain them, which included sex. My dad was likely not the only baby that resulted. My grandfather was from Arkansas, and so did what a guy did in those days if he got a girl pregnant, and married her.

My dad's sister was born a couple years later and is NT. My dad had a little brother, born when dad was 12, and bro was likely aspie. He never showed an interest in women until he fell madly in love with a woman who had a terminal degenerative disorder. He took care of her until she died, and then he killed himself to get from out under the debt. My mom's dad was likely aspie, and her mom bipolar. She is NT. I vowed to never have kids.

My grandmother was schizophrenic. She shot herself in the head two months before I was born. She was in a car with her boyfriend, and they were arguing, and as he tells it she just pulled a gun out of her purse, said, "Hey, watch this!" and blew her brains out. She was beautiful.

I have an aunt with schizophrenia. She sees and hears things other people don't. She yells at things that are not there. I feel bad for her! People laugh at her but she cannot help her condition

My grandma was classically schizophrenia. She described seeing the abyss open up in the sidewalk in front of her.

My great-uncle on other side of my family had what I'd say was undiagnosed autism. He was said to have half of his neurological system, though I know this was before brainscans and all that fancy schmancy stuff. He lived his whole life in the house he grew up in and raised orchids and collected old junk.

I've got patchy genes coming at me from both sides of the family

my grandmother does go through problems when her medications aren't working or like recently they took her medication off the market for a short period of time and the one they replaced it with did not work properly. she can get violent and hollucinates a lot of terrifying things. some things are funny though. her medication is now back on the market and she is doing much better. during the transition the one funny thing she did was rename my mother. she has no recollection of it and it will never be mentioned to her as she would be humiliated but she sent out letters and everything with my mothers new name which was to be Melba (yeah, like the toast)
she has lived in a home since as long as i can remember but she wasn't that old when she moved there. she needed someone to handle her medication for her and whatnot and she chose the home over the hospital an i don't blam her. she always came to visit us on Saturdays, every saturday and always brought us a chocolate bar or cookies. she still visits every week but i'm not there anymore. she is quiet and soft spoken but her medication makes her forget things so she often repeats the same questions. i love her very much and i miss seeing her on a regular basis but having AS children who are young makes it pretty impossible to travel down there and see her.

One of my male cousins (who is now dead due to a drug overdose) had schizophrenia.

yup, my brother. I remember reading some recent research about schizophrenia and ASD's being caused by different expression of the same gene. definitely fits my family and I see that it is quite prevalent here.