Are people with Aspergers more likely to commit suicide?

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About 3 hours ago I was more likely, and the more this trend continues the closer I get to becoming a statistic. I don't think it's due to AS alone more than it is full blown depression, but it comes with the challenges of having that label on your forehead so there you go.

maybe this is why handguns are so expensive. Why are the most painless methods such a pain in the you-know-what?

but seriously...my family couldnt get by without my income, and my boss has told me many times that it would be very difficult to find another worker with a work ethic as strong as mine should i ever quit. Seems the problem is that i have too many earthly commitments to fulfill. that and i dont have the money to.

I didn't really feel suicidal regularly as a part of my life, I thought I was always in denial that I'd ever attempt it. Then I had a bunch of crap and bad feelings to deal with last summer and in September I entered a depression that was severe enough that I tried to commit suicide. About a month later I tried again and then nearly tried again in June.

Next year, I'm going by the way of starvation - to watch my family go through heartache is my last dying wish. They'll miss me when I'm gone. Tough.

starvation is a lousy and protracted way to go.

Then people who have done bad to me will stand and watch it.

too bad those evil folk aren't the ones being made to starve to death, instead of yourself. just a thought.

There's nothing to stop a dead man dealing with other people!

Aspies are very dangerous people when they can't get what they need in order to survive.

If you starve yourself or anything else that soes not cause instant death you will be thrown into a mental hospital. They will force feed and drug you. They can be harsh and not interested to talk with you. It is too much for them to talk to any one. Nothing against you personally. They are just like that to everyone.
Your family won`t care if they already don`t care.
My family just got mad and rejected me even more.
I do personally care that you and all the others are so depressed and hopeless. I have been there many times` and boy is it great feeling to have dug myself out of it.
Autistics and aspies tend to perseverate. So sometimes we perseverate on depressing things.
I just try to find a hobby to perseverate on. Then I am happy.
I am also bipolar so I may go there again.
Seriously tried it several painful times.
I think depression combined with perseveration makes some as people more suseptible than nt`s to suicide.
I care.
Pm me anypne struggling with suicide.

Or e mail me at [email protected]

Peace.

P.S. the best revenge is to live happily and well.

I have only recently begun to think about suicide.

I was a total optimist until I past middle age.

At this point I finally realized that I would never have friends, never have a partner, never be fully competent at my job, and never be able to retire with any dignity. My career and single most important accomplishment - my children - now adult and NT - reject me for my weirdness. My life is exhausting and meaningless.

Then I needed to have an operation with general anesthesia. When I awoke, I missed the oblivion of unconsciousness. I yearn for it at times. Suicide is a heavy thing to lay on children though and I love them deeply.

Anybody who feels misunderstood is extremely likely to consider it.

My kids are the only reason I haven't done it. This summer I came about a millimeter from it. I can't do it to them, ethically. So I'm here whether I like it or not, at least till they're all able to take care of themselves, and then who knows. I still might not be able to do that to them. I hate life, I hate the rejection I get from ppl, and most of all not understanding it and because I don't understand it I can't do jack sh*t about it. Every day I wish I could forget that I have that obligation and when I hear somebody dies I envy them. When things improve I don't trust them because they always turn to crap again. I don't do anything to people and they still treat me like I have the freaking plague. damn.

~Kate

i used to have a running fantasy about suicide, i thought about all the most muss-and-fuss-free ways to do it so i could return to heaven. then it occured to me that i am here on earth for a reason, and that if i ditched this life too far before the natural end, then i would probably have to make it up sometime, and that terrifying thought caused my suicidal ideation to "lose the name of action." so i determined that i would get this life done and over with, never to return to it or anything like it, when it's all over. i will be in heaven in 2 or 3 decades, perhaps sooner, and once there will look backwards on this most recent lifetime as just another unpleasant memory, soon forgotten. until then, i will just stay here and be a thorn in the side of respectable normal people. that puts a smile on my face, the first such smile i've gotten from life in a long time.

Depression comes from thinking, and thinkers are smart. Therefore we are in our own league and misunderstood, misunderstood people have nobody to project their feelings and ideas on to and that makes you feel useless, when in fact we are very productive in our heads. We do not agree with how things are done there for we get cast aside and that leaves us feeling lonely and unwanted.

Being different is to be lonely, being lonely is to feel depressed, to be depressed is to think about then, now and when.

Good Night.

You thought too much for that reply.