The situation I'm in is not nearly as severe as those cases; my brother is still high functioning, but I still don't think I could do it. Personally I would abort the child; I know what living with someone who has autism is like. What I'm saying isn't nice, but its something that I would choose. Its hard; its one of the hardest things you can possibly do. There are different people in my house every day to work with my brother; we have to stay on a relatively tight budget even though my dad makes a very nice income, because my brother comes with costs of tens of thousands of dollars to keep him at years behind his peers. I love him, I really do, and he's high functioning enough that he will be able to hold down a job in a real work environment, but I couldn't do that to myself or anyone that I'm with. Its too much work, especially when looking at it from the point of few of a person who is still midway through college and has no plans of having kids for over a decade.