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If your firstborn was diagnosed with Autism, would you consider having more children?

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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  • AspergerParent

    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.

  • calla

    Holy smoke! Where did my answer go?

    Planning children wasn't my thing, so deciding to have another kid didn't happen.

    My kids don't get along well. My aspie daughter used to pinch ...

  • Whirlwind

    My son was 2 when we started to notice that he didn't socialize well. We assumed he needed a sibling to give him a chance to practice being a good friend. He wasn't diagnosed unt...

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