How many people have been officially diagnosed with ASD and have at least 1 parent who is either suspected to be Autistic or is confirmed as such

I'm first generation Autistic in my family, no known cases anywhere. :)

So that's a zero then. Theres 9 in mine and I suspect both parents had it. My da definitely had ASD I'm sure of that. If there are no know cases in your family who do you know you haven't been misdiagnosed? 

Well in a nutshell my entire life I've always been 'different' in the way autistic people often are. And I've always had difficulties socialising, understanding social protocol, people in general and what not. I have sensory issues too along with empathy problems being I seem to not always have the right emotions I guess you could say for certain things and not understanding how I feel or why I feel a certain way, a lot of anxiety. I can go on forever with specifics.

I had my assessment done by someone who is very well accredited who specialises in diagnosing ASD & ADHD and along with that every questionnaire possible and also with my mum as part of my diagnosis to talk about my childhood too.

And I guess there has to be first somewhere in family so there's no reason it couldn't be me.

I did think that there could be a possibility of a misdiagnosis for that reason though at the beginning because there hasn't been a case in my family before but I read my report and think about all the research I did whilst I was looking into what was "wrong" with me (I don't think there is something wrong with me now but at the time I was really struggling and didn't know why).

I know that Aspergers isn't an official diagnosis anymore but if it was that's what I'd be diagnosed with, I'm not sure it does but that's why my dr/assessor told me.

I imagine they would have had some communication issues to a point the didn't have language like we do now.

Neanderthals more or less became extinct because the first homosapiens killed them off and also because they had children with each other but the genetic mutations that formed Homo sapiens were dominant so even if neanderthals weren't killed off they would've died out over time because of there lower intelligence getting killed as they wouldn't be able to solve problems as fast as Homo sapiens or even have the ability too if there was something that was more complex.

There's a lot of people today that share the genetic code of Neanderthals which proves that theory and when you think about that between us and NT its very similar (except we're not killing them off). We are neurologically built different than NT's and there a lot of situations where that is benefit over the average NT brain.

I imagine they would have had some communication issues to a point the didn't have language like we do now.

Neanderthals more or less became extinct because the first homosapiens killed them off and also because they had children with each other but the genetic mutations that formed Homo sapiens were dominant so even if neanderthals weren't killed off they would've died out over time because of there lower intelligence getting killed as they wouldn't be able to solve problems as fast as Homo sapiens or even have the ability too if there was something that was more complex.

There's a lot of people today that share the genetic code of Neanderthals which proves that theory and when you think about that between us and NT its very similar (except we're not killing them off). We are neurologically built different than NT's and there a lot of situations where that is benefit over the average NT brain.