Hah, yeeeeah. I've always known the ASD (and my sib's ADHD) comes from the paternal line because it's rife with it. I think we have exactly two adults alive in that family at this point who either don't have a diagnosis formally, or can't be immediately diagnosed by a trained monkey but for whatever reason it's not worth pursuing formally for one, the other, or both. Bipolar/cyclothymia may also be lurking in there, but we're not 100% sure those weren't misdiagnoses of ADHD+life crap (and desire on the part of both parties to have a more exotic diagnosis).
More recently, however, I've learned that "tendency to alcoholism" in my maternal line could be more accurately described as "huge, huge stripe of severe depression and anxiety which the men in the line tended to try to self-medicate by alcohol before giving up and suiciding and which curdled many of the women up into hateful knots."
Suddenly my own mental health makes perfect sense!
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Hah, yeeeeah. I've always known the ASD (and my sib's ADHD) comes from the paternal line because it's rife with it. I think we have exactly two adults alive in that family at this point who either don't have a diagnosis formally, or can't be immediately diagnosed by a trained monkey but for whatever reason it's not worth pursuing formally for one, the other, or both. Bipolar/cyclothymia may also be lurking in there, but we're not 100% sure those weren't misdiagnoses of ADHD+life crap (and desire on the part of both parties to have a more exotic diagnosis).
More recently, however, I've learned that "tendency to alcoholism" in my maternal line could be more accurately described as "huge, huge stripe of severe depression and anxiety which the men in the line tended to try to self-medicate by alcohol before giving up and suiciding and which curdled many of the women up into hateful knots."
Suddenly my own mental health makes perfect sense!