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I am the mother of 6 children. 5 of my children have Autism. I am questioned often on why I continued to have more children. I am wondering if others have considered not having more because of an Autism diagnosis.
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My oldest was only 18 months when my second son was born. But, yes I think we'd have more if we wanted to have a larger family (we don't) despite having AS in our oldest.
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