sly279 wrote:
though not even sure If i should keep living. Keep reading that there's so much wrong with me.
That's a pretty sh***y way to feel, and you have my sympathy. I guess that doesn't help that much when you are feeling so low, but please know you have it anyway.
Been kind of where you are now. Incredibly down - yes, depressed and yes, suicidal - but with one thing and another I kept going. And it got better. Stopping living is a very permanent solution to what is possibly a temporary problem. For as long as you are breathing, there is a chance of things improving, once the heart and lungs stop, well it really is game over.
What I'm saying, essentially, is please don't act on those 'not sure if I should keep living' thoughts. Please.
Also, stop reading/listeningto/mulling over the stuff that says you have 'so much wrong with you'. You aren't wrong! None of us are essentially wrong, tho it can be hard to believe this when so many things and people tell us we are. Until I reached a stage in life when people began to accept me for who I was, and even like me, I had that whole 'I am worthless' crap on a loop in my head too. As much as you are able, please try to focus on the kind and *true* things people have said to you, people on this forum for example.
Believe me when I say I know that won't be easy. You appear to have spent your whole life believing the crappy lie about you being worthless and defective. But it is just that - a LIE. When I realised, after 40 or so years, that I was an Aspie, a huge load was lifted from my shoulders. Until then, like you, I had been suffering under the idea that I was somehow wrong, broken, faulty and I needed to get a grip and get 'better.' Now I know otherwise. I was never wrong. I was admittedly always different, and I always will be, but I am okay with that now.
Don't get me wrong, I am far from perfect. I am on the large side of average too, and have an overbite you could use to open beer bottles! I also have the challenges all Aspies have in living in a world that is not designed for or by people like us. But, at the end of the day, I am okay with it. I have sufficient people who love and believe in me these days to know that the struggle has been worth it. Yes, there are still people who don't understand and/or like me but, hey, that's their loss (tho that still gets under my skin at times too, but not so much that I cannot deal with it)
I have waffled on more than enough now, I'm sure. Just know that (a) it can get better and (b) you are worth a great deal more than you currently believe. Hang on in there, and drop me pm if you like.
Take care. ((((hugs))))