Which of your parents do you believe is/was/might be/could have been autistic?

My father was much more like me in temperament than my mother. My paternal grandfather was an engineer and amateur inventor (some of his inventions were manufactured commercially on a large scale), he was considered rather eccentric in the family. I suspect that he was the major player, genetically, in my autism. My paternal grandmother's family had some history of mental disorders, described as melancholia at the time. My mother was a highly sociable person, having said that, she had some mild eccentricities of her own, so she may also have played some part in passing on autism traits to me.

My father was much more like me in temperament than my mother. My paternal grandfather was an engineer and amateur inventor (some of his inventions were manufactured commercially on a large scale), he was considered rather eccentric in the family. I suspect that he was the major player, genetically, in my autism. My paternal grandmother's family had some history of mental disorders, described as melancholia at the time. My mother was a highly sociable person, having said that, she had some mild eccentricities of her own, so she may also have played some part in passing on autism traits to me.