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curl-6 on 07 July 2025
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EnricoPallazzo said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah if I knew I was going to have a baby with Downs, I would honestly terminate. Then again, I don't plan of having kids anyway cos I have a different hereditary condition. (Autism)

Here in Australia, and in the UK, 90% of diagnosed Downs pregnancies are terminated. In Iceland, the number is near 100%, and in Denmark it's 98%.

Kind of off topic, but me and my wife were chatting recently about this. We wonder if one of the reasons why autism is on the rise (apart from correct diagnostics that dint exist in the past and etc) is that a lot of autistic people, because of technology and where they work, end up marrying with other autistic people, giving offpring to more autistic people. Its crazy the amount of kids in the spectrum in Cambridge for example, and I bet a lot of tech and lab people here are autistic even if not dignosed yet.

I have an autistic cousin, light autism, married with a moderate autistic husband. Their kids are both autistic, one clearly more than the other. I also know a lot of cases where the father/mother which is autistic had a kid that is autistic. It seems the genectic component is really strong, especially if you marry another person in the spectrum.

Yeah it has a strong genetic component; in my family it comes from my Grandpa; he's classic undiagnosed Asperger's. Of his 7 kids two are clearly Aspie (never diagnosed, but its obvious if you know what to look for) while the rest including my Mum all have some traits even if it's not full-fledged.

My grandma also has a lot of anxiety which was passed on to my mum and then to me.