Have you relatives with ASDs?

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I recently found out that it can be genetic, I am curious what the results of this poll will be

Nobody diagnosed. I see some very definite traits in both direct and extended family, but I doubt any of them would be diagnosed.

I'm told that my grandfather, who died about 22 years ago, had some of the same difficulties as me, so it's possible that he might have been diagnosed if Asperger's / high functioning autism had existed in his day.

My younger brother is autistic and intellectually disabled. He's the only other diagnosed autistic in my family, as far as I know.

Yes, I suspect that will limit how certain many of us can be.

My Mum definitely has some traits, some of which we discovered when she assisted with my autism assessment. Her younger brother (my uncle), possibly more so. I saw him rarely as a child and not at all as an adult, as he's as reclusive as I am. But my Mum has described very often not just how similar we are as adults, but also while each of us were growing up. The childhood signs of autism that were identified in me were quite a revelation to her, as having grown up around a brother so like me, she saw absolutely nothing unusual about them until the psychologist showed an interest. There are family stories of other slightly eccentric characters in earlier generations, but far too sketchy to definitely attribute to autistic traits.

Perhaps my stern but kind-hearted grandfather and my uncle who also has seizures. Almost all my relatives work in fields of medicine. Others work or have degrees in engineering and building.

Autism is considered one of the most heritable psychiatric disorders. (I personally don't think of my autism as a psychiatric disorder but rather a neurological condition.) You can search on the twin studies by "Folstein and Rutter". In my own family my mother, my younger sister, and I are autistic. My father and brother were definitely neurologically atypical - my brother was diagnosed schizophrenic, but he had severe neurological damage and long-term grand mal epilepsy from a swine flu vaccination as an adult, so I doubt he actually had typical schizophrenia. My older sister seemed as normal as could be. I studied autism a bit and it turns out that the genetic component is a bit complicated because it is related not just to inherited genetic conditions but often to de novo mutations or copy number variations. Plus there are multiple subtypes of genetically-derived autism such as Fragile-X syndrome, etc.

Possibly my great grandfather who was known as an eccentric recluse. Even though he got married (he was 38 she was 18) and was a father of three, he was still rather detached. Although the conclusion was he was manic depressive (bi-polar).

Looking back I realized that my father was definitely an Aspie, same as my younger brother and a couple of older brothers. There is a chance that my mother is Autistic in some fashion too but she would NEVER admit it. My feeling is that she's simply schizophrenic.

Funny thing is that my parents were foster parents for 30 years. And my mom always requested a non-verbal Autistic girl to take care of. Some were completely non-verbal, others had more speech than others and yet others were only borderline Autistic and had more developmental delays with non-defined mental handicaps. All in all we had a total of 10 or 11 different girls over 30 years.

Kimmy had only one phrase that she could say and that was "more cows". She said this every time she wanted more margarine on her bread because there were a picture of 2 cows on the margarine tubs when we were growing up. It took us awhile to figure out what she wanted but eventually we got it.

As I look back on it now we were all just one big Autistic family and most of us were unaware of our own problems (or employing a strategy of arrogance and denial, as the great Tony Attwood would put it) as well as each other's problems.

Me and my younger brother are diagnosed. My father and second brother share a lot of traits with us, but they're probably not on the spectrum. I suspect my grandfather to be autistic.

Two cousins diagnosed on my fathers side of the family.
Stongly suspect my dad and his dad were Aspies.

No known relatives who are on the spectrum, but I will say my dad was pretty weird and socially awkward. Definitely not on the spectrum though.

Nephew, officially diagnosed.
Can't confirm, but many stories and memories of my maternal grandfather suggest he's the source of it all.

Yes, my youngest brother has a son that is diagnosed low-functioning and mostly non-verbal. Ditto with their daughter, except she was never professionally evaluated. My brother and his wife are curebies and still believe vaccines are the cause. I no longer have any contact with them, as they (mostly her) have been called everything in the book for being on SSDI (they consider ANY kind of assistance to be welfare.)

I also have an uncle, who’se youngest grandson is high functioning. Last I heard of him, he was studying landscaping.

I suspect I am the only one in my family

I'm all alone...

I have two cousins with ASD, but they aren't blood relatives.