Aspie Suicide Rates?

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It was only recently discovered that AS and HFA are caused by an extra nerve connecting the frontal cortex to a big toe. For AS it's the right toe and for HFA it's the left toe. Or is it the other way around?

Now they can find AS and HFA via an autopsy, but only if the medical examiner is up on current research. Maybe we could get a request to check for it put on our drivers licenses?

In a few years, it will be possible to donate AS and HFA to people who need it. Isn't science wonderful?

Why do people seem to attack those
of us with a bit of inbreeding?

That could be an interesting study, prolly no more depressing than the rate for NT's. Once I visited Hawaii USA, and before I went a mate told me that in the US, Hawaii has a disproportinate rate of suicide. I was surprised and asked "really?" he said that Yanks who make a ton of money move there, and then discover that's as good as it gets, so they drive their Ferrari off a cliff.

I've thought long and hard about suicide.

Luckily, when I was young and my life was as worse as it would ever get, I was also quite religious. This stopped me from killing myself as I feared oblivion. During my teenage years, I still had that feeling that suicide would be a huge mistake spiritually - that and the fact that as said by someone above in this thread "I wouldn't give the bastards the satisfaction".

Religion (in the general sense of the word) has faded from me. But I still resist the idea of suicide. Whether it's conditioning, left over from my childhood, or the instinct to outlive my obstacles, I'm glad I had that feeling there to stop me from going through with it.

Because life is interesting. I feel I'm starting to understand myself more now. I'm sure if I had topped myself, the very best I could hope for is that I'd have had to start this journey all over again.

So you'd be reincarnated as me! I can't have chocolate anymore as the caffiene aggravates my migraines... But I don't eat ice-cream simply because, well, I don't like it much. I think 'cause it hurt my teeth as a child.

I love chocolate though.

Suicide (among ASpies) is letting the NT's win!! !

This is truly a damn good question. - And Remnant, you sound like someone I know and care about - nearly word for word. I've wondered the same thing in the case of another. He's even calmly looked at me to say suicide is on his mind for the week. Not just because of me but because of work, friends, himself, the world, "ghosts" as he calls them, looking towards the "grim, bleak" future, & so on. Since he'd do the same for me, I have to consider the part this notion can play. Wish I knew those statistics though I don't know how much knowing would do. Personally I find it stark and surreal each and every time he brings up the thought of suicide. All the while knowing how capable, genius, unwavering his is. Apparently I am learning something very real and true here. Asperger's can involve suicide. Color me a dolt, but I'm here to learn something for good reason. Gee, for the longest time I was taught its just us flaky, emotional monkeys that resorted to suicide. The experts I paid all those years were full of crap.

I had a former client and mutual friend (same person) who was AS (1995 or so when AS was a new DSM). His mother was rotten to the core, father passed away. She shipped him half way across the country to live “near” his brother (2001), who couldn’t be bothered. He hung himself at the YMCA. He was a great person. Brilliant with music; should have been a band scout in LA. Life gets so horrible that some people need to get out. It is escaping pain, not wanting to die.

Oh, FYI, Autism Speaks is taking your brains for research. I wanted to start a thread on this topic, but have been swamped at work. I was so freaked out by this. It really is like they want to dissect an alien brain. They are looking for a cure (ha, they can’t even find a cause). I say keep you all the way you are and let society bend to accommodate. The worst thing I see here is how badly others treat you and how normal but misunderstood you are. There is nothing wrong with being different if others just knew what AS is.

I still don't understand what autism is supposed to be. Self-absorbed? Yeah, maybe, but what about people who pay no attention to their own condition? What about differentiating between the different reasons?