Origin of emotional issues, depression, anxiety etc

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Emotional issues like anxiety, depression are common with ASD.

Is it very overrepresented? So that there really has to be a link?

Is there any good research/theory about the origin?

If it is inborn and genetic, biological, from after birth?

For after birth environment:
What are the causes? From what phase of life does it origin?

AFAIK some conditions like bipolar ARE genetic/biological and ARE overrepresented in the ASD population. I am mostly thinking of general anxiety and/or depression, normally considered to be caused by emotional experiences.

I am not quite sure I follow

Most of the factory farmed animals are in poor shape, the NT ones have better overall general health, but their family jewels are heading in a degenerated direction too.... unless toppling empires become a thing of the past

and degenerated families start screwing the wild native savages

It's the age old nature-nurture debate as with many subjects.

It's a combination of both, with the weight towards nurture. There is a minor genetic/biological predisposition to develop depression & anxiety when someone encounters certain environmental situations in life. But, a lot of reactions to situations are learned from the family environment while growing up. Somebody who grows up around an anxious/depressed family will be more likely to be anxious/depressed as an adult. This can be overcome, but it takes a concentrated effort.

Because AS is such a miserable disability. Who wouldn't be depressed and anxious with it?

I think it arises from multiple sources. As an infant and small child, sensory issues cause a constant state of stress. The autistic becomes hypervigilant in anticipation of painful overstimulation. Alexithymia and communication difficulties make it hard for the autistic to define and share what is causing their suffering in order to alleviate it. Additionally, the early years of school involve emotional pain, as the autistic is rejected and usually bullied for their inability to relate socially. They may become hypervigilant socially as well in anticipation of painful social encounters.

By the time the hormonal changes of puberty (which cause mood swings even in neurotypical adolescents) and the greater social challenges of high school roll around, you have the recipe for a depressed and anxious autistic person.

It's just so frustrating when you are trying your hardest and still get ridiculed and teased and hated. It's heart-breaking for me and it's heart-breaking for my family who love me (because they don't ridicule me, and they don't like it when other people do).

It's OK when you know you are doing something unusual or bad or humiliating, because you can then reflect on those things and think of ways to work on it. But when you are self-aware and you know what's right and what's wrong and you make an effort with yourself and you do things with your life and you know that people still ridicule you and you don't quite know what to do next, since everything you are doing is not unusual to other people. People are too critical and sensitive to other people's vibes, and it's awfully sad really because I thought once I got out of high school and came into the adult world, I wouldn't get so much of this s**t. But it seems worse. And there's nothing more I could do about it, because I have tried everything that doesn't make me stand out. I don't stim, I don't have any unusual body movements, I have worked on my posture so now I stand up straight and not walk too quickly, I make more eye contact, I wear stylish clothes, I make sure I'm clean, and try to be friendly by smiling, and I'm just another ordinary-looking person who should blend into the background.

So the answer being ''there is something off about you and there always will be'' does break my heart and is very soul-destroying. It makes me feel that everything I try to do is fruitless because I still don't get the respect I should get. I am fed up with being treated like a second-class citizen.

Then people wonder why I rant and cuss about having AS, and Aspies here wonder why I don't want a child with AS. I can't deal with more heart-break by having a child who will give off this stupid f*****g vibe what will make childish NTs go, ''heh-heh-heh-heh look at that thing over there, it's got....some sort of.....vibe, even though it's not doing anything unusual.....''

And people say Aspies don't act their age??? I'm confused here.....