Aspie diagnosed in 60s.

[Gingerpickles]

Asperger's runs in my maternal grandfather's family. Somehow I missed the math genius token :c
Mom is probably undiagnosed.
Borderline Teen son is undiagnosed but heavily asymptomatic (father who has severe autistic cousin and autism markers when we had DNA testing during fertility treatments; refuses testing of our two children).
My 10 year old youngest had a sudden onset at 3. Austism/ASD is diagnosis and he has 4 autistic cousins (most in his age group) and his father had uncategorized learning disability growing up.

I had responded well (I guess? I mainstreamed) to training and therapy growing up but had regression of OCD habits after a severe head injury in a car accident.

 

[Crossbreed]

Welcome to AC.

(Where did you live that Aspergers was recognized in the '60s?)

 

[ancusmitis]

Hello there. Welcome to the restaurant at the end of the internet

 

[Arethosemyfeet]

Hi , new here also. Welcome

 

[Cosmophylla]

Hi, Gingerpickles, welcome to AC.

 

[Gingerpickles]

We lived in Fla at the time. My dad was Civilian consultant for Air Force, Grumaan, and Boeing. He took me somewhere up North then had my care overseen by a specialist near Miami.
My Grandfather was in Texas and his father was a professor at the Uni. He was first person diagnosed in family sometime around 1938. We had a family member from the Fredrick side that worked in that field then in Europe and immigrated to Texas. They were worried he was retarded when younger.
Because of his and his cousins diagnosis in our family history it made it easier or lazier to throw the Asperger diagnosis at us weird ones. For all I know we may have some as yet unlabeled condition in neurological hiccups

PS my dad was still a millionaire at the time. No longer multi billion after divorce from first wife.


*edit: I'm here mostly because I am at loss often with my son and his expression of autism. I feel like a clock is ticking to get him interested in reaching out of himself.

 

[Terencby]

My Grandfather was in Texas and his father was a professor at the Uni. He was first person diagnosed in family sometime around 1938.

With all due respect, Autism as a diagnosis didn't officially exist until 1980, and even Kanner's paper wasn't published until 1944. The Asperger diagnosis was formulated by Lorna Wing in the 80's, but was only officially incorporated into DSM IV in 1994. Not disputing the existence of the syndrome in your family from that time, but hard to be diagnosed for a condition that still hadn't been recognised.

 

[Rocco]

Welcome aboard

 

[ancusmitis]

With all due respect, Autism as a diagnosis didn't officially exist until 1980, and even Kanner's paper wasn't published until 1944. The Asperger diagnosis was formulated by Lorna Wing in the 80's, but was only officially incorporated into DSM IV in 1994. Not disputing the existence of the syndrome in your family from that time, but hard to be diagnosed for a condition that still hadn't been recognised.

There had to have been people being diagnosed autistic by clinicians before its inclusion in the DSM. That's how it got there in the first place. (edited to add): Nobody getting diagnosed means no recognized population of persons who meet these criteria, means no "official recognition" in the diagnostic and statistical manual compiled by the APA.

 

[Terencby]

There had to have been people being diagnosed autistic by clinicians before its inclusion in the DSM. That's how it got there in the first place.

Of course, but not back in the 30's. At the very least, diagnosis of autism had to post-date Kanner's 1943 paper.

 

[ancusmitis]

Of course, but not back in the 30's. At the very least, diagnosis of autism had to post-date Kanner's 1943 paper.

It does not have to post-date the paper. The paper could not possibly have been published without pre-existing material to publish about. Frith notes in her Autism and Aspergers Syndrome that there were earlier cases described. Page 5, where she is talking about Kanner. And I don't know exactly how long Kanner or Asperger worked on their respective papers, but I'm inclined to believe that it took a while. Why do you feel so strongly that this person's diagnosis needs to be disproven anyway? I can't see the sense in it.

 

[tree]

The term "autism" was used by F. Bleuler
as early as 1910. The current meaning of
the word arose as a result of H. Asperger's
works, which were translated in the 1980s.

"Schizoid," "infantile schizophrenia," "autistic
psycopathy," and other phrases were used
to describe what is now known as "being on
the spectrum," aka 'autistic.'

Autistic is an adjective to describe a behavior
style.

 

[Elemental]

Welcome to Central Gingerpickles I knew my cousin being labelled autistic in the 1960's during childhood, so the term was evidently being used then. I'm interested in family group autism because of three members diagnosed in my own & other non-diagnosed possible (likely) candidates. Whether this is genetic or environmental, who knows but it is interesting I think. Hope you enjoy this site ☺