Can two aspie parents have an NT child?

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10 Dec 2011, 11:37 pm

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He has ADHD, ... .

There you go. ADHD and ASDs are genetically linked. Said child with the ADHD will be able to pass the ASD on. So, it was still effectively 100% for you [in regards to passing it on].

(I forgot to mention that about ADHD.)

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11 Dec 2011, 1:35 am

Well actually I have always excelled in genetics at school even though its not my field at university.
Actually its like this (eye colour for example): if one parent has brown eyes and carries the blue eye gene, and the other parent is the same, they have a one in four chance that their offspring will have blue eyes.
This is cause Blue eyes is a recesive gene and brown is dominant.
It is needed for 2 recesive genes one from each parent to have teh child with that phenotype (outcome/appearance) to take place.
Where as brown eyes parent with blue eyes gene and a blue eyed parent have a 50/50 percent chance of having a child with either blue or brown eyes.

I have seen this happend in my own children. I am aspergergian even though i am undiagnosed, and my ex is NT.
So far my son appears NT.
It is quite possible for 2 aspies to have an NT child.
Especially when you take into consideration that some Aspies are aspies because of Birth Defects and not Genetics.
I myself may be the bi-product of a birth defect for example: age of parents, and amount of oxygen i had in the womb etc.

I have seen people on this forum state that they are AS married to AS and have NT kids. so i guess thats proof alone.

But of course there also runs the risk that an Aspie n an Aspie may have an Aspie or an Autisic child.

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11 Dec 2011, 2:13 am

When the inevitable day comes along where parents can abort autistic fetuses, it will be possible for AS parents to ONLY have NT children and that will be a happy day for many.

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11 Dec 2011, 3:30 am

doesn't age play a huge part in it?

What are scientists saying, child birthing ages are 16-24 and that that is the time the most healthy offspring will be produced? The older the parents are, the less viable the sperm will be, so greater risk of birth defects, disorders? Right?

My oldest sister has her problems, BUT she is NT. No doubt. My 2nd older sister is more quirky, and may or may not have some light elements of AS/OCD. I am the youngest, and my parents were obviously older when they have me. So there you go. WHoopty Doo!

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11 Dec 2011, 3:37 am

lightening020 wrote:

I just basically said that, scroll up a lill n read my post, by Teredia. =)

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11 Dec 2011, 4:01 am

Teredia wrote:

lightening020 wrote:

I just basically said that, scroll up a lill n read my post, by Teredia. =)

Your right. My mistake. I agree with what you said.

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11 Dec 2011, 4:40 am

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Age doesn't have much to do with it, my parents were young when they had my sister and she has autism and mum was in her early twenties and then i was five years after her and i have aspergers so i don't think the age thing is such a good theory since my parents were within the right time limits to have my sis and me as was dad.

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11 Dec 2011, 9:49 am

swbluto wrote:

When the inevitable day comes along where parents can abort autistic fetuses, it will be possible for AS parents to ONLY have NT children and that will be a happy day for many.

Ok, I think I'm going to go on a multipost quote streak.

1. The day is not inevitable, expecially if I have my way.
2. For certain cases of AS it would be cased by recessive genes, therefor NT children will be impossible.
3. It would be a sad day for many too. Stop being so cynical.

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11 Dec 2011, 9:51 am

lightening020 wrote:

I say no. My parents were pretty young when I was born. I think it's just that people with autistic traits are more likely to have children later, and your situation is just a coincidence.

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11 Dec 2011, 9:53 am

Princess78 wrote:

A therapist once told me that my boyfriend and I, who both have Asperger's, might end up having a child who either has Asperger's or is severely autistic. She also said we might want to talk to a doctor before we have kids, to find out whether or not our children will have Asperger's or autism. I mentioned that to him and asked him if he was OK with adopting if there's the possibility of us having children with Asperger's or autism, and he said yes. On the other hand, my parents and sister don't have Asperger's and I do, so I don't really know for sure.

What's wrong with an Aspie child?

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11 Dec 2011, 9:58 am

nick007 wrote:

It is possible for two NTs who don't have any kind of family history with autism traits other than the dad having Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, dyslexia & ADD to have an Aspie kid(I'm talking about myself here) so I think it should be logical that two Aspies can have an NT kid

First, OCD/ADD/Dyslexia is fairly autistic on it's own, and ADHD and Autism are genetically related. Second there is the whole recessive vs dominant trait thing, so just because it works one way doesn't mean it will work the other.

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11 Dec 2011, 10:04 am

Ganondox wrote:

nick007 wrote:

Ive said it once and ill say it again, go read post of mine.
It explains teh age factor too...
and Dyslexia sits on the spectrum of Specific Learnlin Disorder with Aspegers Syndrome. Where as ADD and OCD are not Specific Learning Disorders theyre Autism Spectrum ones... I Suppose AS is one of those weird ones that sits in several different places.

Actually thats what made me wanna research about AS in the 1st place is that its on the same spectrum as Dyslexia but in the Autism Spectrum where Dyslexia is not... odd haha...

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16 Dec 2011, 4:13 am

Here is two NT's look how many autistic children they have

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAR1m8G19QM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8qhYdtoeqM&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ls5M0dXjs&feature=related[/youtube]

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