Autism Risks

[Anonymous]

I'm under the understanding that you can't screen for autism, but are there known risk factors that you make a child more susceptible? Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

[Anonymous]

The Kliman lab at Yale can do a test on the placenta after your baby is born that they believe detects autism at birth for the vast majority of cases. I think they only offer it to parents who already have a child with autism, but you can probably ask regardless. I'm not sure what kind of early intervention is even available that early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

I have a kid ( girl ) with Autism and it gets very weary reading about how frightened people are having kids with Autism. People with Autism are just regular people who see the world differently than us. They are not monsters.
Perhaps we had number 1 but, I was only 30 when I had her, and she was born on time and she is a girl. Girls have Autism too but, can socially mask it better than boys. I don't have number 5.

Please don't worry about Autism! The people with Autism that had trouble being successful in the past was because we had no therapies for them. Heck, most people didn't even call it that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

I have a kid ( girl ) with Autism and it gets very weary reading about how frightened people are having kids with Autism. People with Autism are just regular people who see the world differently than us. They are not monsters.
Perhaps we had number 1 but, I was only 30 when I had her, and she was born on time and she is a girl. Girls have Autism too but, can socially mask it better than boys. I don't have number 5.

Please don't worry about Autism! The people with Autism that had trouble being successful in the past was because we had no therapies for them. Heck, most people didn't even call it that.

I’m not afraid of mild-moderate autism, I’m afraid of nonverbal, severe autism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

Parent of a teen with Aspergers (when diagnosis was still provided).

1. Zero on my side of family, siblings or cousins. DH has 6 cousins on father's side of family. 1 male cousin (no autism) has 2 boys with autism. (We do not live in the same state and I am not related to any of the wives).
2. Both parents aged 36 at the time.
3. boy
4. 2 weeks post-term birth
5. none.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

I have a kid ( girl ) with Autism and it gets very weary reading about how frightened people are having kids with Autism. People with Autism are just regular people who see the world differently than us. They are not monsters.
Perhaps we had number 1 but, I was only 30 when I had her, and she was born on time and she is a girl. Girls have Autism too but, can socially mask it better than boys. I don't have number 5.

Please don't worry about Autism! The people with Autism that had trouble being successful in the past was because we had no therapies for them. Heck, most people didn't even call it that.

And those like my son who don't get diagnosed until its too late to address some of their issues because the doctors, teachers, etc don't believe the mom that there are issues.

Autism is...hard to deal with. Some kids do great with it, but, if you know a kid with autism, you know ONE kid with autism. They're all different, it presents differently in all kids with autism, and not all of them do well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

I have a kid ( girl ) with Autism and it gets very weary reading about how frightened people are having kids with Autism. People with Autism are just regular people who see the world differently than us. They are not monsters.
Perhaps we had number 1 but, I was only 30 when I had her, and she was born on time and she is a girl. Girls have Autism too but, can socially mask it better than boys. I don't have number 5.

Please don't worry about Autism! The people with Autism that had trouble being successful in the past was because we had no therapies for them. Heck, most people didn't even call it that.

And those like my son who don't get diagnosed until its too late to address some of their issues because the doctors, teachers, etc don't believe the mom that there are issues.

Autism is...hard to deal with. Some kids do great with it, but, if you know a kid with autism, you know ONE kid with autism. They're all different, it presents differently in all kids with autism, and not all of them do well.

True, but, it does get tiring. That's all I was saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

I have a kid ( girl ) with Autism and it gets very weary reading about how frightened people are having kids with Autism. People with Autism are just regular people who see the world differently than us. They are not monsters.
Perhaps we had number 1 but, I was only 30 when I had her, and she was born on time and she is a girl. Girls have Autism too but, can socially mask it better than boys. I don't have number 5.

Please don't worry about Autism! The people with Autism that had trouble being successful in the past was because we had no therapies for them. Heck, most people didn't even call it that.

And those like my son who don't get diagnosed until its too late to address some of their issues because the doctors, teachers, etc don't believe the mom that there are issues.

Autism is...hard to deal with. Some kids do great with it, but, if you know a kid with autism, you know ONE kid with autism. They're all different, it presents differently in all kids with autism, and not all of them do well.

Yeah. And it's ok to be concerned about the potential for a disability. It doesn't mean you love your child any less.

I have a genetic condition that severely impairs vision in one of my eyes and welp, my daughter inherited it. Can't say I wasn't worried about that. She is getting more targeted, more advanced and earlier treatment than I did, but it still makes me sad that her life will be a little harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

I have a kid ( girl ) with Autism and it gets very weary reading about how frightened people are having kids with Autism. People with Autism are just regular people who see the world differently than us. They are not monsters.
Perhaps we had number 1 but, I was only 30 when I had her, and she was born on time and she is a girl. Girls have Autism too but, can socially mask it better than boys. I don't have number 5.

Please don't worry about Autism! The people with Autism that had trouble being successful in the past was because we had no therapies for them. Heck, most people didn't even call it that.

And those like my son who don't get diagnosed until its too late to address some of their issues because the doctors, teachers, etc don't believe the mom that there are issues.

Autism is...hard to deal with. Some kids do great with it, but, if you know a kid with autism, you know ONE kid with autism. They're all different, it presents differently in all kids with autism, and not all of them do well.

True, but, it does get tiring. That's all I was saying.

Then don't read threads with autism in the title. Your kid sounds awesome. Mine isn't awesome (I mean, sometimes they are...but...other times they have tried to push me down the stairs, punched holes in my walls, destroyed things I care about in a fit of rage, injured me....my kid has "moderate" autism and is "academically gifted" - yay - so they got diagnosed late and we lost YEARS of intervention).

I get that the fear of autism is annoying (I didn't want a kid with autism either) but before we had a diagnosis my kid had autism and we just had zero support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked it up for myself. Genetics and parental age play the largest role.

1. Having a close family member with autism.
2. Being an older parent.
3. Having a boy vs having a girl. Boys are 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism.
4. Preterm birth.
5. Comorbidities, such as fragile X, Rhett's, tuberous sclerosis.

I have a kid ( girl ) with Autism and it gets very weary reading about how frightened people are having kids with Autism. People with Autism are just regular people who see the world differently than us. They are not monsters.
Perhaps we had number 1 but, I was only 30 when I had her, and she was born on time and she is a girl. Girls have Autism too but, can socially mask it better than boys. I don't have number 5.

Please don't worry about Autism! The people with Autism that had trouble being successful in the past was because we had no therapies for them. Heck, most people didn't even call it that.

Are you the poster spamming these boards with this message?

Please stop giving such a rosy picture. I’ve BTDT. It’s very hard.
No one is saying the kids are monsters, for God’s sake. But I’m livingvit and it’s VERY HARD.

So shut up.

[Anonymous]

What is considered an "older parent?"
30?
35?
40?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is considered an "older parent?"
30?
35?
40?

and does it matter whether its the mother or father that's "older"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is considered an "older parent?"
30?
35?
40?

and does it matter whether its the mother or father that's "older"?

Read the science.

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/link-parental-age-autism-explained/

[Anonymous]

maternal immune response during pregnancy predicts autism-- hence why i'm being extra neurotic to avoid covid (and anything that may trigger my autoimmune disorder)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30430410/