Is there any members who are Jewish or have Jewish Ancestry? Becuase this link will explain it's opinion why you are on the Autism Spectrum.

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/mod...story.html

Not at all:

They are just looking for a small group of people that's as homogeneous as possible to look for hereditary aspects of autism. Nothing else.

It has been shown, I understand, that Austism is more common to Central and Eastern European communities. Chicken and egg. If we carry this hypothesis is it the case that it's more common to Jews, or simply the case that Ashkenazim are genetically eastern european?

Did the writer really have to describe autism as "a disorder involving abnormal introversion and egocentricity?"

I see what you mean couldbecousin, I found it a little bit offensive.

I did have a German-Jewish Great Grandmother who came to Britain during the Second World War, and her family where full of Autistic Characteristics, especially Bipolar.

And by looking at the poll so far, many of us could be at least partial Ashkenazi Jewish.

I might be part Jewish. Here are the ethnicities I know for sure: Scottish, Irish, French, English, Mexican, and German. I am half Cajun so there might be some Native American mixed in there too (they married Indians while they were still living in Canada).

How do you know what your ethnic origin is beyond a few generations or a few hundred years? Each of us could, in theory, trace our ancestry back eternally!

My grandfather is obsessed with genealogy, so he's traced my family tree back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Of course, if we could trace our ancestors back many tens of thousands of years, we would find that they were all living in Africa.

I've got a few genealogy buffs in my family, too, which is why I can rattle off: Irish, English, Polish, German, Dutch, Viking, French, Chinese and Aboriginal Australian.  Bitzer much?

Notice my avatar and user name.

That is a hint of my descent.

Well, you've got my vote of Southern European (Mediterranean.)  I wonder if perhaps I'll be the "lone wolf" in that category... I hope not.

Oh, so you have added a poll ...
btw, questions about ethnic origin are a no-no in Germany since the end of WW II.

Hold it Shnoing if you implying that I'm some sort of racialist. I had added this poll to prove the hypothesis of the article if there was a link between Autism and Ashkenazi Jews by using AFF as a sample. So think before you sent me that comment on this thread.

I thought Shnoing's comment was more interesting than offensive.  I'm not sure where you're from Joel, but the German and wider European perspective on such matters is interesting to me.