My father was in the military in Missouri when I was conceived and born I m autistic my daughter and both of her children are. my father was exposed to a lot of chemicals one being Dioxin

We have 2 on the spectrum, 1 with ADHD, and still wondering about my other 2... 5 altogether.

We have 2 on the spectrum. Our middle son and 1st diagnosed we have always known something was not right and actually knew it was autism before he was diagnosed. He had multiple strikes against him from the start. It was an extremely difficult pregnancy with me being on antibiotics constantly. He was born at least 2 months premature (but we actually think more like 2 1/2months) by a traumatic C-section in which they actually lost me for about 10 minutes. He had a lot of feeding issues (failure to latch then progressed to lazy latch). When he was 1 month old we were in a critical car accident and although he was in proper restraints we were quite shooken up. We have always attributed all his delays due to such a rough start on life as he also has CP. Then when my oldest was diagnosed we began looking at other things. My oldest was a normal and quite easy pregnancy, his birth was C-section but due to his size not distress. He progressed normally if not ahead of schedule on everything. Our first signs of autism we dismissed as oppositional behavior. We were quite shocked when he was diagnosed. With both boys being diagnosed we started looking into genetics and have identified several family members on both sides that show the classic signs of Autism. So it's really hard to say what caused what.