Asperger's and adoption

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I don't know if i asked this here before, its about adoption in

general, whether adoptee or birth parent... and I guess adoptive

parents.

Although adopted at 10 months and successfully *grafted* into my

family, I've always had a sense of incompleteness. I've read of some

adoptees with fantasies of who and where they come from, yada yada,

I've never really experienced that. But I *am* more than curious,

and good or bad, would like to know my birth history.

I am fairly certain that this history will have auties in it, as I

passed it to my children and suppose it came from one or both of my

birth parents, and so forth down a line.

Also through my children we have found I have passed on a form of

muscular dystrophy, which though not progressive (supposedly) has

caused a range of difficulties, and nearly led to the death of my son

during a surgery to repair his eardrum.

I would like to know the successes and failures, you know, just life

sort of things, about my birth family. How they have or have not

coped with the strengths and weaknesses that accompany ASD's. Jobs,

family, relationships, a count of relatives with or without ASD.

Are any of you in a similar circumstance, or have you adopted a child

with asd, or a sibling, or any part of the adoption triad?

I have another huge part of this that I am not ready to discuss, i

just don't feel comfortable, and in my experience, if my gut tells me

not to do something, I should go with that feeling.