How could you say that depression in relatives makes you think that Asperger’s is genetic. I don’t think it’s genetic, at least not with that reasoning. I feel depressed but it really hadn’t started until the past few years. I’m 17 and have a 15 year old sister who I believe has Asperger’s. She has been diagnosed w/ ADD & motor tics but that was a while ago. She also has anxiety. She gets very upset and cries very easily. My sister does not interact well in social situations and does not have many friends. The ones she does have she’s had for a long time and isn’t very good at treating them right. I, or anyone else, can say a sentence w/o her correcting our grammatical mistakes. She doesn’t like to hang out w/ people or do stuff for too long or it will make her upset. Normally a few hours is more than enough for her to be with friends. She is afraid of germs and has very bad motor tics, making noise and moving her head, and other things. It is much worse during the school year when she is stressed out. If she even gets one B, which has only happened twice in her life, she will cry. Because of her anxiety, my mom doesn’t want her to have to go to the doctors and be diagnosed with Asperger’s because then my sister would think she has more things wrong with her. So my sister doesn’t tell anyone at school that she has motor tics or ADD, and many kids think she’s weird and pick on her. People ask me what’s wrong with her and I just say nothing. That’s all I can say. No one else knows, except for my immediate family. It is so stressful that it makes me depressed because I feel bad for her but at the same time I want to teach her something. I try to help her make plans for the upcoming weekend and then it stresses her out and she gets mad at me and yells at me and says I’m a bad sister. Then I feel so terrible and I can’t do anything about it. All of this stress is what makes me depressed. I try to be a good sister, and I can’t be. Then my parents get mad at me for making her upset. I can’t please everyone.
