worst situation you have been in ?

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Or what would be the worst?
Mine was at school and having the teacher to tell me to swim in the filthy cold pool with a used costume.
And I broke down and cried and refused to do it.
(This was just before I went to college)

I would have to say sitting next to my Mom seven months ago when she took her last breaths and died from complications related to cancer.

Two others are similar but unrelated instances separated by twenty years in which I was shot at. In the first instance which was work related (I was an unarmed security guard at the time), the bullet missed my head by roughly 24 inches.

In the more recent instance, also work related (taking pictures of a property for insurance purposes) A resident of the home shot directly at me through the glass window with a 12 gauge shotgun from approximately 30 feet away.

To a lesser extent, having one of my fingers crushed in some heavy machinery. Thankfully it's on my non-dominant hand, but it's usage is now permanently limited. I had assumed directly after the accident that they would have needed to amputate the finger given the severity of the damage.

Do you mean the worst situation as far as things that would bother an autistic person or situations in general?

Many of us have been through a lot of very difficult things.

As far as my autism is concerned, fifth grade was a hellish year for me. We moved, and I had to switch schools halfway through the school year. My new teacher was extremely loud, the lighting was very bright, and I was extremely shy. I was very overstimulated.

The teacher was so loud and mean I tuned her out and spent the majority of my time not listening and drawing pictures of horses in my notebook. My straight A’s dropped to C’s.

From sixth grade up to graduation, I homeschooled.

Worst thing that ever happened to me was I was attacked walking home one night in Chicago. I was grabbed from behind and the man held a knife up to my neck and tried to drag me into an alley. I screamed and dropped into a dead weight pose, and since the area was heavily populated and porch lights went on immediately after I screamed, the attacker ran away.

I think I had mild PTSD from that for many years. Now in old age, I am uncomfortable in parking lots after dark, knowing a crippled old lady like me would be an obvious target for a purse-snatching. (I also had my purse snatched once or twice in my youth.)

Edited to add: the attacker did cut me on my hands. When I showed up bandaged to work the next day, the doctor I was working with joked "Did he get your money or your honor?" That seemed insensitive to me, as if I would have lost my honor if I had been raped. The doctor was a woman, too. Then she shook her head and said "I don't know why anyone lives in that neighborhood." Blame the victim, anyone?

Me & my 1st girlfriend breaking up & then falling into a psychotic depression partly due to that.

It's a toss up between my dad getting laid off multiple times, being bullied mercilessly in school, being sexually abused by a neighbor, working for an emotionally abusive boss, and being hospitalized in a psych ward.

Fnord, that definitely is horrific.

I've been in some bad situations, but for me personally, what gets me the most, is car troubles. And I'm having some today =|

I just really fear having to sit on the side of the road, vulnerable, middle of nowhere, with this great big, immobile vehicle, just waiting and hoping that someone else will come rescue me...and then worrying that I've just ruined their day, and worrying about how to get the car back home and working again, and worrying that something else will go wrong with it immediately after...is it safe to drive, or will it kill me? Should I buy a new one?

Maybe that's just me.

If I was out somewhere on my bicycle and had a problem, I could just walk home. I don't know why motor vehicles just freak me out so much.