These days, Autism Spectrum Disorders aren't uncommon. In fact, it’s pretty clear that there's a strong genetic link. People with ASDs Collect Together If you have autism in one form or another (or if you have a sibling on the autism spectrum), there's a better than average chance that you will have at least one child on the spectrum. It's not vaccines, it's not head trauma or defective parenting. It's genetics, pure and simple. The apple really doesn't fall too far from the tree. What's less well documented is that people with autism seem to prefer the company of others on the spectrum. In fact, it seems that we have an arguably better sense for detecting individuals like ourselves in social situations than regular people. The odds of a person on the autism spectrum partnering with another person on the autism spectrum seem to be higher than most. The upshot of this is that there are many families out there which contain more than one p...