Published on 12, July, 2020
Is it possible that for none autistic parents have an autistic child?
so if parents and grandparents don’t have autism is it possible for the kid to have it? I’m only asking cos there’s a lot of discussion on ahem (Tiktok) highlighting autism is genetic (correct) but what is also being shown is that parents of autistic children are also autistic but in denial and a lot of the family members actually have traits… soo that leads to my question of can a child have autism when no one in the family even has traits of it??
I think there's a lot of factors at play when it comes to autism, genetics and environmental, so can't 100% say it's down to genes, but lots of other things at play. In my family, my mum doesn't have autism, my dad is definitely autistic but undiagnosed. We believe my grandad was autistic, and we do have a few other family members who are likely on the spectrum. Genetics likely had a part to play in it, but got to think about incidental and environmental, too.