Crazy Question. Bear with me?

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Primarily for those with ASD official or self diagnoses.
Moms or Husbands on the site are welcome to answer on behalf of their kids too: how did you (Mom) or your wife manage smoking during the pregnancy?

PLEASE note this is NOT a flame thread. My mother smoked during my sister's pregnancy and there were ZERO adverse effects, so I don't consider smoking during pregnancy to be something people should be attacked for ... I'm also not asking about secondhand smoke, so if dad smoked in the house, I couldn't care less. Has no relevance to the study.

It's simply not the right thread to discuss the rights and wrongs of smoking during pregnancy. If you want to do that please start another thread in the random forums (but feel free to link).

(That's the main reason I made this an annonymous poll!)

If you have multiple children and took different approaches while pregnant, that'd be important data too.

Apparently, smoking during pregnancy is a possible risk factor for autism; but I wasn't able to find a lot of research on it. Unfortunately I was unable to access this article, but I've copied the abstract--

Perinatal risk factors for infantile autism.

Hultman CM, Sparén P, Cnattingius S.

Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, S-17277 Stockholm, Sweden. Christina.Hultman@mep.ki.se
Abstract

BACKGROUND: Etiologic hypotheses in infantile autism suggest a strong genetic component, as well as possible environmental risks linked to early fetal development. We evaluated the association of maternal, pregnancy, delivery, and infant characteristics and risk of infantile autism.

METHODS: We conducted a case-control study nested within a population-based cohort (all Swedish children born in 1974-1993). We used prospectively recorded data from the Swedish Birth Register, which were individually linked to the Swedish Inpatient Register. Cases were 408 children (321 boys and 87 girls) discharged with a main diagnosis of infantile autism from any hospital in Sweden before 10 years of age in the period 1987-1994, plus 2,040 matched controls. Conditional logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).

RESULTS: The risk of autism was associated with daily smoking in early pregnancy (OR = 1.4; CI = 1.1-1., maternal birth outside Europe and North America (OR = 3.0; CI = 1.7-5.2), cesarean delivery (OR = 1.6; CI = 1.1-2.3), being small for gestational age (SGA; OR = 2.1; CI = 1.1-3.9), a 5-minute Apgar score below 7 (OR = 3.2, CI = 1.2-8.2), and congenital malformations (OR = 1.8, CI = 1.1-3.1). No association was found between autism and head circumference, maternal diabetes, being a twin, or season of birth.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that intrauterine and neonatal factors related to deviant intrauterine growth or fetal distress are important in the pathogenesis of autism.

When the thread gets to page 3 I'll reveal what I'm actually thinking.
Bear with me - it's strange

my mom smoked heavily while pregnant with me, and i have ASD.

i smoked heavily while pregnant, but finally quit at 8 months pregnant, and my daughter is NT.

Hmm...
So far, looks like my theory is fail

I have AS and my Mom never smoked.

My youngest has AS and my wife and I have never smoked.

yep. Theory fail.
There are a chain of research steps that led me to wonder if nicotine withdrawl in the mother had any influence or impact on triggering dormant ASD genes. Looks like a balanced number of people had nonsmoking parents.

My Mum is intelligent and she never smoked and she was eating healthy food during pregnancy. I was born big, healthy and I don't find my AS a disease.

I voted "I don't really know or care.", which in my case applies to having an ASD or not. I know my mom has never smoked.

Hmm, starting to look like not smoking causes autism....

my mother smoked while carrying both me and my sister. i have AS, my sister is 100% normal, shes popular in high school, grades near perfect, she has FAR more opportunity than i am even allowed to dream about.

Why aren't you interested in secondhand smoke? What about the mother's exposure thereto?

Anyway, you need an option for people whose mothers smoked but quit many years before becoming pregnant.

I'm on the spectrum, and my mum kept smoking while she was pregnant with me.

My mom never smoked or did anything bad & both me & my brother had birth trauma/problems. We were from 2 separate normal/healthy pregnancies & came with her expecting no problems. But I was very ill from birth (seizures, no breathing etc.) & my brother had to be induced + blood problems. He is NT and I'm ASD. I think a lot of it depends on genetics and luck/fate.

My mom never smoked with her three kids. I never smoked either. I tried it once and didn't like it.