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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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!  [b]The people with Autism that had trouble being successful in the past [/b]was because we had no therapies for them.  Heck, most people didn't even call it that.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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