Asperger Syndrome Support Group

Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is characterized by deficiencies in social and communication skills, normal to above normal intelligence, and standard language development.

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I'm not flippin' out. I think that my wife, her three sisters and her brother all have aspergers. I'm sure her mom does as well. The father didn't get married until he was 50. He didn't have it and he died recently anyway. But I know having kids after 50 puts kids at a greater risk in itself. But more so is the fact the mom is a very high functioning, hard working German immigrant that lived through the Var and emigrated. Fits of anger, throwing dishes, holding lifelong grudges, turn-on tears and shut'em off like a faucet. She is a fiendish and abusive piece of work.

I'm thinking this family was the perfect storm for asperger's. Could such a thing be possible. Have any other widespread family diagnosis ever been done?
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Dad was Aspie I am son is nephews are so go figure
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Husband is and both his parents and his sister. My older daughter is and his sister's older son is also.
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It's nice to see I'm not as off the mark as I think several professionals think I am.

Take a look at my profile, and you'll see what I mean.
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yes I think it can be widespread in a family.my 25 year old daughter was just diagnosed with aspergers after years of being misdiagnosed with every thing under the sun,and if I look back at my family some of which are now passed on they would have been diagnosed with some form of a.s.d.4 of my grandchildren are aspies,And I think if I were to see the proper Dr. I would find out that I could be added to the list
harry3333
harry3333
my dad had it and of course a boy with aspergers gets little support from an aspergers parent

also a long history of strange and eccentric people on dads side of the family
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My 5-yo son has AS, and although my husband has not been officially diagnosed, we and his parents feel that he has AS as well. The pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall into place the more we learn and read about AS. I have many AS tendencies myself, although I don't believe that I have it.
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One thing I worry about is that once I learned about AS then I started seeing vitually every difficult person that I knew as possibly having AS. That's what I worry about with my wife and her family since no one has gotten the official diagnosis.
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