Kurt Cobain...

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They say Kurt Cobain was autistic, but I say his personality and mental instabilites coupled with drug abuse led him to suicide.

Opinons?

I don't believe he was autistic, just "different."

This sounds weird, but I would almost like to think he is, considering how much I love Nirvana and yes, Kurt, himself. It would be great knowing a musician so close to my heart went through the same things I did. Even if he is now dead (RIP), I would like having someone I could connect to in that way.

If I'm going to be honest, however, I do not think he was autistic. I do think he was a little strange and might have had some aspie-like traits, but he seemed less...socially awkward. He seemed like someone who could be and actually was (still is, in a way) very popular but just didn't want to be. I do know he struggled with bipolar disorder though, and more obviously, drug addiction. A mix of those two things, as well as the pressure of fame and some other things in his life, are probably what lead him to suicide.

I adore Kurt Cobain. I don't think he had Apsergers though. Perhaps he had Aspie traits. I honestly think it was the combination of mental illness (Bipolar), drugs, fame and no mental health treatment that led to his suicide. I also think that he wanted to die while in the peak of his career and not as an old forgotten musician who only talked about the good times.

I was only young when he died. It was only then I that I connected that man with the song I liked to sing when it came on the radio or TV (Smells Like Teen Spirit). I remember being sad and not understanding what happened. But then what 8 year old can understand death, let alone why someone would kill themselves.