Depression more common in Aspergers, not Autism itself???

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I have AS and depression.

In high school a social worker wanted to diagnose me with depression and put me on medication...I was confused because for the most part, I was fairly content...but my parents said that depression means you don't like to be around large crowds of people, and stuff like that. I didn't really have that problem either, so I just kinda shrugged.

I think he also came to that conclusion because he pointed out my tics and poor emotional skills.

I don't think depression is properly acknowledged among people who have more trouble communicating their feelings. It can be passed off as 'just the autism' even when it involves severe aggression or self-injury as part of it. I also think that at least some of the so-called accidental deaths of autistic people are suicides. I know of one man who learned to type, and his parents didn't believe he could do it, and took his communication device away from him, and he walked in front of a train right after. It's just that many autistic people are not ascribed the intellectual or emotional capacity to be suicidal, so their deaths are written off as "not understanding". I also know of one man who used to deliberately refuse to take his migraine medications, thinking the headaches would kill him if he didn't take them. That was just written off as not understanding the point of them. Etc.

I was diagnosed with severe depression, ten years ago, this past spring. I've gotten much better, over the past ten years.

I think I constantly on and off have mild depression...
When I was 18, there was a 3 month phase when I think I was switching from mild depression to severe depression... it was nasty. I felt wronged, like someone had just committed an injustice on me and gotten something out of it, leaving me in the dark. I felt extremely insulted and hurt.

Because I alternate so much, and feel very elated at times too, I sometimes think I might be mildly bipolar, but that's something for psychologists to decide - I can't say one thing or the other on that subject...

Anyways - things are going pretty well right now... but I still fall into a ditch from time to time... it doesn't tend to have a hold of me for long though, but I take short breaks out of it then fall back into it again.

I do not know about autism. I was kind of depressed at the age of 10/11. I became depressed at the age of 15. I had a nervous breakdown. I improved but have had several relapses. I was diagnosed with AS at the age of 25.

i am always told i act depressed...

i'm diagnosed with depression and AS.

high-functioning autism could probably easily have depression, i know a few members here are that way. i don't know about low-functioning.