Anyone the only aspie in their family?

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I feel alone. No one else in my family has it, no other relatives, no one. Sure there are traits but I am the only one diagnosed. My husband doesn't have it either despite having lot of traits. He claims to have it just to make me feel better but I don't buy it because it's not true. No he isn't self diagnosed. My parents have said my grandma has it but I was never sure if they were saying that to make me feel better when I was 15. I have no idea if there are other aspies in my family because I refuse to pin labels on them over a few traits. My mom said I should see myself as lucky because I have the diagnoses and no one else does. I get to understand myself better.

Anyone else alone with their DX?

I am the only one with a diagnosis in the family but there are traits, expecially in my grandad if he was diagnosed as AS he'd have it more than I do.

Same here, except I have a cousin who has classical autism, but we don't really talk at all.

I'm the only one diagnosed in my entire family. I do often get that alone feeling. I think there's a relative with autism, but I think it's a distant relative, though I never met them.

I'm the only person in my family diagnosed, but my father and even his father show Asperger traits. There's nobody on my mother's side who show signs, I suppose that it appears more severe in different places of the genetic tree. My Aspergers is only mild, but still more severe than my dad's traits.

I know no one in my family is diagnosed, but my dad has traits of it.

I have 10 siblings and a great many cousins, they all seem to be fond of popping out a lot of babies. So far I am the only one that I know of who has been diagnosed with AS, and from all appearances it is quite possible that I am the only one that is. One of my cousins has another developmental disorder, but his was caused by brain damage from his mother's alcohol abuse while she was pregnant with him. So, mine appears to be a genetic anomaly instead of a hereditary trait. I completely understand feeling alone and outside because of that League Girl, you have my sympathy.

I know of no other autistic relatives, not even anyone I can think of who SEEMS like an aspie. There are a number of ADHD cousins and other relatives on both sides of my family, that's all. My brother is a programmer, so you'd think he might have those traits, but I don't see autism in him. My aged father has developed OCD comorbid to his dementia, but I don't see him as having been autistic etiher.

I suspect that my paternal grandmother, whom I never knew, was the aspie in the family. What I've heard of her and read in her diaries would seem to suggest it.

I don't feel lonely in my family. My mother and I get along well. We don't get bored of one another, and we don't ever really get annoyed with each other. She isn't odd herself, but she is comparatively accommodating of many kinds of oddness. I was only diagnosed as an adult, so she never considered anything to really be "wrong" with me; I was just different and a bit weird. But she reckoned that it was because I was clever, and clever people in her experience were often odd.

In my family, there's just me with an official diagnosis of AS. None of them have had the same kind of life as I have. And they went to great lengths to impress upon me how unlike them I was. Which is why I moved 1500 miles away from them.

The only other person in my family with a known condition is my cousin, who is a paranoid schizophrenic. I haven't seen him in 35 years. I didn't learn this about him until I was well into adulthood. It was never brought up, and then only in hushed tones, with a great deal of shame attached. You know, "he makes us look bad." I wonder how he is getting along now, because his parents died years ago, and he always lived at home.

I don't really speak to anyone in my family, but as far as I know., No.

My brother had some asperger traits as a child but never diagnosed. I don't think they we're strong enough for a diagnosis anyways.

We have plenty of learning disabilities and ADHD in the family. and a paranoid schizophrenic uncle. So we have our share, but a far as I know I am the only autistic.

Unfortunately, I'm the only aspie in my family so i'm practically alone... But my dad is also one but has it mild but he doesn't with with us though unfortunately due to all these problems.

I am not the only one in my family, but my cousin who was severely autistic, and two of my dads cousins with AS live in the UK. I am in Oz.......very far away.

So yep, "I AM THE AUSSIE ANOMALY"......(.in robotic voice)

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I am the only Aspie I know of in my family. My Mother shows some traits - She hates being around people and used to be generally shy.

I'm the only humanoid aspie this little guy is I believe an aspie




He loves to stim with plastic bags

My dad has traits but he isn't as extreme as I am. I'm all alone.

I'm the only one, but my late father probably had it, too.