Ste11aeres
Well-Known Member
I don't understand why she is so distressed about the possibility of a kid having aspergers/autism when she doesn't find your own Aspergers to be an impediment to being with you.
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I don't understand why she is so distressed about the possibility of a kid having aspergers/autism when she doesn't find your own Aspergers to be an impediment to being with you.
Very true and look at my parents, they had 2 autistic children including myself who was first suspected as low functioning followed by my brother Daniel who is still very low functioning with suspected brain damage, yet they still decided to have my brother David who was also low functioning and even back then when autism wasn't officially recognised as a possibly inherited condition, my parents must have still been aware that there was a very high risk of their 3rd child, David being autistic too. In the OP's situation however there's only really a greater risk of having a child who is on the higher functioning end of the autistic spectrum and there's still a good chance that even this won't happen.What would you regret more in the end of your life, as you lay dying? Never having kids and playing it safe? Or having kids and having to live day by day.
Remember, most parent love their kids, even the disabled ones, more than their own life and all their posessions. That should tell you something about what matters in life.
However, I know people who decide not to have kids, and they are happy too. So it is just a choice eveyrone has to make.