Discussion are neurodivergent people more prone to suicide?

[immolation]

i have autism, and so does my dad (both diagnosed). i tried once to come to him about my mental health, and he said "i hate to even tell you this, but people like us (referring to the autism) are always going to struggle with this." he's never told me anything about his mental health directly, but it's clear he still struggles as well, maybe even worse than i do? even in his 50's after raising an entire child. are we just cursed to feel this way forever?? ive been thinking about it a lot recently and this has really been bothering me. i keep thinking that if i wasnt autistic i mightve never felt this way, that i mightve been able to be happy and normal.

 

[worthIess]

yes

 

[zdeweilx]

i have autism, and so does my dad (both diagnosed). i tried once to come to him about my mental health, and he said "i hate to even tell you this, but people like us (referring to the autism) are always going to struggle with this." he's never told me anything about his mental health directly, but it's clear he still struggles as well, maybe even worse than i do? even in his 50's after raising an entire child. are we just cursed to feel this way forever?? ive been thinking about it a lot recently and this has really been bothering me. i keep thinking that if i wasnt autistic i mightve never felt this way, that i mightve been able to be happy and normal.

Absolutely, that's one of the main reasons why autistic people have a lower life expectancy than normies

Life will always be a constant uphill battle for neurodivergent people, because they are the minority almost everywhere

 

[boyafraid]

I'm pretty sure I have some sort of neurodivergence. Either adhd or autism, maybe both lol. The people I can bond with easily are almost always autistic so there's that.

Dealing with mental health is hard enough as it is, I'd imagine being neurodivergent just makes it more complicated.

 

[copioushopelessness]

Yeah

 

[DarkJason]

Autism is a big reason why I'm suicidal, or rather, the social isolation and rejection that has resulted from it. It feels like pretty much no one actually gives a shit about autistic people. To them, it's just something they can use as a meme/joke, or something that they can call themselves because they think it's "quirky" or some shit. Most of those people treat real autists like absolute garbage. It sucks that ,compared to similar conditions, very few people take autism seriously and are able to acknowledge the very real problems it brings to people's lives.

 

[thelostautistic]

I can't speak for all forms of neurodivergence but I can speak about my experience being a late diagnosed autistic. Unfortunately I think it makes a lot of sense that lots of autistic people feel suicidal and end their lives. Growing up autistic can be very traumatising and lonely. We have to move through this world constantly dealing with rejection and bullying for simply being ourselves.

 

[chudcell]

i have autism, and so does my dad (both diagnosed). i tried once to come to him about my mental health, and he said "i hate to even tell you this, but people like us (referring to the autism) are always going to struggle with this." he's never told me anything about his mental health directly, but it's clear he still struggles as well, maybe even worse than i do? even in his 50's after raising an entire child. are we just cursed to feel this way forever?? ive been thinking about it a lot recently and this has really been bothering me. i keep thinking that if i wasnt autistic i mightve never felt this way, that i mightve been able to be happy and normal.

Yes i struggle with it and it fucking sucks.
Being autistic really hurts. I wish I could just be normal. I think that's part of why I've struggled with substance abuse. it's the only thing that makes me feel "normal"

 

[Unsure and Useless]

As someone who might have a case of AuDHD to some degree (can't get diagnosed due to absurd prices and wait times in addition to a lack of family support), yeah

On the ADHD-esque side of things, you can never get anything done. My life has been a series of instances of self-sabotage after another simply because I couldn't get my body to just move and do the thing I'm supposed to do. Even now, after I found a half-decent substitute for Adderall/Vyvanse/Strattera, it's already too late because whatever is wrong with me has dug me into a hole too deep to get out of, and it has also just worsened my depression. In that sense, ADHD only makes one more suicidal because it makes it infinitely more difficult to function in a society that caters to neurotypical people

Meanwhile, on the autism-like side of things, I just don't get some things, and they only serve to isolate me from the rest of society. At first, it's cute to hear someone yap passionately about the things they love, but eventually, other people get tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. And that's only if they haven't been scared off by how intensely passionate one is. Autism itself doesn't make you more suicidal; that is done by society's reaction to someone with autism

Tl;dr ADHD makes you more suicidal because it makes it difficult for you to function in society, and autism makes you more suicidal because the effects usually lead to unintentional social ostracism in my opinion

 

[ThePollinator]

Yeah. As an autistic person, I don't remember ever *not* struggling. Neurodivergency can be a sentence of unmeasurable and constant struggle and pain

 

[hitagi-crab]

Definitely. Feeling alienated from society, not being able to understand or be understood by loved ones, trauma from having behavior 'corrected' in abusive ways as a child, not to mention just pure frustration at certain kinds of sensory suffering. It can really add up.

 

[a-lien]

yes, I've read something about that topic..
I also think, I'M autistic (or AuDHD, I don't know, but pretty sure neurodivergent, because of other family members.)
waiting for diagnosis process for 3 years now, not on a list, not really "waiting" (every list closed lol, maybe dead before this will happen)

There is someone I know,with ADHD , and when he was a kid , he said he feels so different and wants to die... thats so sad.
It seems as if other people made him feel this way, that he's not ok...
that makes me sad and angry..
Yeah and I also feel different and wrong in this world. Seems I really don't belong here.. not really made for this world.
I also heard a few storys of autistic oder AuDHD people, that died by suicide...

I think, therapy often seems not to be made for neurodivergent people... ( when they assume you are not neurodivergent, maybe thats a problem... Before they assume you are autistic /ADHD they try t find other disorders :/ but therapie doesn't work, when you got all kind of wrong diagnosis )

 

[madwoman]

I suspect I have autism but haven't gotten diagnosed, I just relate to a lot of the characteristics of someone with autism. But I am already neurodivergent bc bipolar is included - it makes it harder to live bc one thing that humans need is human connection and it's hard to have that when you have social anxiety, have to mask, and never feel comfortable with others and aren't really welcomed in :/

 

[ScaredCutter]

i think its much more likely, high rates of it. autism has its own levels to it, but i think 2nd and 3rd will just make u more prone to being bullied, mistreated and such. abuse and what not. i believe theres a lot of sytudies relating to ND's and suicide because people who are ND are targets for bullying, abuse, molestation, being manipulated and usch other things.


20 year study (?) well the title says its a 20 year study lol. but it focuses on autism more amongst people.

 

[darksouls]

society is a vile abomination