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Both my grandparents had my mother and father over the age of 35. My father's parents were in their forties and my mother's father was in his late 30's early 40's.
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| Can't be true in every case. My parents were married @18 & 19. I was born I was born 2 years later. |
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I had always heard that mothers over 35 have a greater chance of having a baby with Downs. I hadn't heard that about Autism.
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ADoyle90815
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| Not true in my case, my mom was 25, and my dad was 28 when I was born. My brother who was born 3 years later, is NT. |
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Rhiannon0828
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This is one of the reasons my husband and I deciced not to have in vitro fertilization done when we were both 41 ( I had a tubal ligation done after my 19- year-old was born). Not because we didn't want an autistic or otherwise disabled child; we were concerned that if we had a child with any kind of serious physiological problem that we would not have the resources to care for them properly.
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Maybe. Or maybe it has more to do with the fact that people with either diagnosed or undiagnosed autism only become socially skilled enough in later life, and get married. And thus will more likely have autistic children, as well. At least that's what had happened with me, and very likely to my parents - both of whom I strongly suspect of having been autistic.
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| I'm hearing lots of stories about men in their 50s marrying ladies that are much younger than them and are producing babies. |
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Is have having children later the cause of the children being autistic or is the correlation due to the fact that people with mild autism are more likely to marry later? I think it's probably the latter. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:55 am Post subject: Re: Autism and Late marriage |
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| Jono wrote: |
Is have having children later the cause of the children being autistic or is the correlation due to the fact that people with mild autism are more likely to marry later? I think it's probably the latter. |
I essentially said just that in my post.
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namaste
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even i have decided not to go for second child
as im in mid 30's now and already diagnosed with thyroid
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| I just read about that study as well. Both of my parents were older when they had me. |
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| ADoyle90815 wrote: | | Not true in my case, my mom was 25, and my dad was 28 when I was born. My brother who was born 3 years later, is NT. |
genes don't work that way anyway.
permanent DNA damage on the other hand would, but it would seem to me that it would be very obvious and testable.
It would be nice if they made public the actual paper so rational thinking people could look at the real numbers. |
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If this is true, it would certainly be a strong indicator that Autism is most probably caused by something in the DNA. It's already been known for a long time that Downs Syndrome is more frequent in children born of mothers over forty. At least, that was already considered well-established back in the Sixties.
I don't doubt much at all this could be true.
My parents were 19 and 22 when I was born, which would seem to contradict that, but I was 35, and my wife was 22 when our first son was born, and all three of our kids are on the spectrum.
Of course there may be another explanation. I recall reading somewhere recently that Autistics with kids often marry later too. Since there are also already indicators that Autistic parents are more like to have Autistic kids, if there is also a higher probability that they marry later, that would most certainly contribute to a higher percentage of Autistics having at least one parent over 35, with the age of the parent having nothing to do with it.
As another poster mentioned, it would be good to see the actual study.
Did they bother to look at whether the parents over 35 were Autistic themselves? If they did, did they factor in how that may have affected the probabilities?
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My mother was 30 when I was born. I married briefly at 18 and then married my husband now at 22. I had my kids at 25, 29, 31, and 32 and they are all NT.
I don't know how that has anything to do with anything, but I just thought I'd post it.
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