Are Aspies emotionally sensitive?

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I'm not sure whether a physical event like that could have caused it.

I know with diabetes there is a link between generations but it tends to rely on an external trigger - a sudden shock, extreme stress, or an illness of some form. In my case I caught the flu when I was 5, and was diagnosed as diabetic about a month later. My Dad caught the same flu bug just before me, and was diagnosed as diabetic just before me too. My point is that the condition isn't passed on automatically, and therefore scientists took years to spot any sort of pattern. But now they know that the PROPENSITY towards diabetes is inherited. Maybe AS is the same - it was in your genes but that incident triggered it?

I am very emotionally sensitive. Yesterday I suspected a young nephew of mine was getting badly bullied by neighborhood kids and ran off crying in his bedroom. It immediately jolted me to tears as well as it reminded me of my own childhood when I was such a victim of bullying.

It turned out my nephew was just very over tired from staying up all night playing with his X-box and was stagging and uncoordinated on his feet and it was that and not the bullying in that case that was the issue.

Paul

I dunno, I was partly kidding when I was talking about that rock thing, but I forgot to mention that. I think an Unlce of mine has a similar case, but he lives in Holland, so it's not like I can go up and ask him. Besides, he apparently keeps saying there's nothing wrong with him (and there isn't, but he still is different if this is true).

That rock thing could've triggered my second condition, though (which has been cured): I used to have Epilepsy, which doesn't help when you have Asperger's becasue you can never tell when you have what's known as an 'absent seizure' (that's when you go into a kind of trance and stare blankly up, all the while not being aware of it all) or just me doing an AS daydream. Getting into the routine of taking the medication was hard too, due our 'we set the schedule' nature. When I did have that first fit, I had to go to the hospital, and the mashed potatoes were horrible!!

My AS was actually only diagnosed when I had my first 'true' fit. A nurse came up to my mum pointing out my odd walking style, and suggested reading a book on AS. My Mum told that on that day, she was in tears on the way home, because all the things described in the book I did, such as heavy interests and schedule change tantrums. So that was a turning point which I of course didn't pick up. The major factor was that my parents wanted to change the world to suit me, not the other way around, which I think is the best solution.