Autism causes of depression

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The cause of my depression comes from lack of social acceptance, social exclusion and lack of connection with friends due to rejections and excuses. This is very common cause of depression in Autistic people. it not our fault to become sad all the time.

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Crappy life causes depression, not autism itself. Unless it's a chemical one, but one doesn't have to be autistic to have one.
Certain persistent conditioning and of trying not to fail and disappoint causes anxiety, not autism itself. Unless you are born a worrywart, but then that doesn't justify autism for anxiety.

Therefore, that's just the same old social wanting. With wants unfulfilled, just because the autistic is surrounded by the wrong people. While I respect your desire, sorry but said desire and justifications are making me laugh...


You want people accept autism, or just YOU in a way? Be a hacker of culture or capture a sphere of influence. That would take more than the NT neurology, 'charm', and 'voice'.

OR, accept the fact that the NTs around you follows a less tolerant or less inclusive culture. And hope that one day you'll either find a more open minded individual in your life, or wait to change for or stumble across a more inclusive culture, and maybe even have them spread their way of inclusion or tolerance if you have the means and the will to do it.

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Sometimes it's the crappy way that our parents deal with us, especially when we're small. They also have a hard time cutting the apron strings and they're still trying to parent us when we're in our 40s. I was having flashbacks for a while last year, because of the way my mum was about the way that I am now. I've told the story about the helmet and the flag many times. I know that January is around the corner. I know that memories are going to be in the back of my mind. I doubt the my mum is going to redeem herself this Christmas by giving me a gift to do with any of my current interests. I also don't hold my breath waiting for an apology, anymore. I have faith that things will be a lot better next year and I'll have to keep those memories at bay.

It could also be the autistic brain has trouble with seretonin. It tends to get stuck in the blood due to low vitamin d levels, get your health checked.

Low in vitamin D? Our milks contains them and I get outside everyday with good dose of Aussie sunlight!

I have no problem with strangers on the street not accepting me. They didn't give birth to me. I don't care if they don't like the way I present myself. If they don't like what they see, they don't have to look at me. People get jealous of those who aren't afraid to be themselves because they're jealous because they're afraid to be themselves.

I think I was depressed because I didn't accept myself, I had high expectations of other people because I thought I could get them to accept me and like me and I was trying to be normal and struggling to fit in and I was being picked on so all that made me depressed. Plus I always felt bad about myself.

Now I don't care about normality anymore and I don't try to get accepted or try to fit in and I don't get harassed anymore or get any bad treatment from people. I am not pressured to be normal or else I will face the consequence of not trying to be like everyone else, the joy of childhood. When you're an adult, no one cares what you watch on TV or what you wear or what you do for fun or how you spend your time or how you talk or how you walk or stand, etc. because they leave you alone about it and not give you a hard time and making a big deal about it.

mine i think has a biological basis too, as well as my life having been a hellish ride and being the worst it's been these past few years.
i'm just totally pessimistic and fatalistic, hence the name.
i've always thought about death and ageing since i was a kid too, and also the nature of reality and the human condition, which only leads to more misery.