Is suicide common in people with aspergers?

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I've been on WP for years and, yes, suicidal ideation is common here. Most of us are outcasts. We were bullied and made to feel like s**t. I always thought I wouldn't even make it to 18. At 30 I finally thought I'd went as far as I could go and attempted suicide. It landed me in a state psych hospital for two months. Yeah, I read about suicide a lot on this site. Sadly, it must be common with this population. I suppose all we can do is draw strength from each other because we're really all we have.

When I was a child & a teenager, I didn't think about suicide, I didn't know I had Asperger until later in life. In my 20s, I started having a little depression & once I had bad insomnia, I was talking sleeping pills, I remember I couldn't take it anymore, I wanted to kill myself. I wanted to kill myself more after my mom died.

Anything that causes marginalization can trigger suicidal thinking and actions. But we need to be strong inside ourselves and develop a sense of self worth regardless of ow people treat us or how they judge us.

Do not allow yourself EVER to feel or be devalued by others. You have a right to be alive and you can't get along or be accepted by society simply live life for yourself.

I have HFA and I think about suicide passively on a daily basis; I don't think we feel as 'different' as Aspies, but I do still get painful moments of self-awareness, to which I react to with suicidal preoccupation. Acting in with substance abuse, and the internet in general has helped ward off these feelings. There have been a few occasions in the past where I have nearly off myself for good, and the only thing that stopped me from doing that was drinking myself into a stupor in some fit of self-hatred. Alcohol has been a cursed gift for me.

I would guess so.
With not fitting in, bullying due to looks, bullying for being different or acting different to neurotypicals or not understanding neurotypicals. Anxiety and other mental health problems.
Problems with employment, problems with relationships, isolation and loneliness.

But you know.

What the world sees as our weaknesses
we should try and turn around to make our strengths
or at the very least identify our weaknesses and work on these.

Also, always remember their is always a doctor to speak to who can prescribe some med to sort at least some of our problems out.

I think that as Autism knowledge gets better over the years, problems areas will be identified and people will be given help in the areas that they have problems with.

So, all is not lost. Think of your dreams and work towards them regardless of what anyone else says.

I’ve never really been a suicidal person, but this semester at school awakened those feelings inside me. I felt like my life would never get better, no matter how hard I tried. I’ve always felt like I had to be this “perfect” person, and when I don’t meet those expectations, I feel sad. This year, those feelings made me feel like I didn’t want to go on with my life anymore.

My parents are divorced, I feel like I have to take sides all the time, my younger brother has a more successful life than me, I have a strained relationship with my mom, I struggle a bit in school, I have no social life and I’ve never had a proper girlfriend.

Sometimes, I can’t take it.

I was suicidal at the age of 15. I didn't feel that I had much of a future at that age. I felt that I was doomed to a life of nothing. I thought a hippie was the only thing I could grow up to be.

I'm okay, probably because I live an okay life. The fact is that I can't get any enjoyment out of it, and I might consider leaving the world if something happened to make me angry, just like I left the crowd.

It is simply common in people who live in a life they don't want, playing a role they don't like, not having the things that they want or even need.

In which, that, when life is no longer a gift and becomes a burden -- with nothing to look forward to except the labor of surviving and coping.


In case of autistics, it's this large mismatch between the world created and catered towards NTs who happened to succeed at the thresholds of the perpetuated selection biases, and the needs and wants of an autistic overall in which most autistics do not pass the selection and therefore left unfulfilled.


Personally, my biggest problem is my body. Having sneezing fits. Having hormonal imbalances. And so forth and so forth.
I believe this is my first obstacle in solving my second problem because the sensations distracts me, it steals my internal resources;

The second is this programming and emotionality that I'm sure I don't want anything to do with it -- and it is also a problem for anyone ever involved if it gave a fit.
And it's been influencing every decision I made, it's limiting my potential and I don't like it.
I likely need professional help with this, however;

My third biggest problem I have is just the socioeconomic status that I ended up with.
So, I get limited accessibility unless I get lucky. I had to make do with this, however; if I solve my second problem, this third problem will be much easier or even possible to overcome.


But in truth, what kept me from ever taking my own life is this... This... 'Duty to life' -- to see all of this through.
However, this aspect borders to spirituality and religion.

While at it, why not just... 'Try' and solve my problems, do something if it's feasible -- than just 'watching' this bore of a life.
Or, figure out how to be some optimistic nihilist; but I'm not sure if that path is for me at this stage.

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