living with a family that isn't supportive makes it 10X WORSE.

Omg. Aspergers has made my life hell. Tons of heartache. wanting to die. Sometimes I get so angry at the world for being extra cruel to people like me.

It's not worth it... being in a relationship when you don't have any rights. When a diagnosis makes a person less than human by general standards.

My brother jumped off a building 3 weeks ago. He had Aspergers. I miss him so much.

As a person with ASD who attempted suicide, I have to say 30% seems low to me, sadly. Studies have shown that 60% of people who kill themselves tell someone or give clues (knowingly or unknowingly) but many of us are socially isolated and so people are not there to read the clues or have close enough friends to confide in that we are depressed. Also 30% is those diagnosed. What percentage of those undiagnosed (and I know there are some) take their own life? It is sad

I’m a female diagnosed late and I feel the same way. No one seems to realize the way other people perceive and treat us. I think educating neurotypical people is also key. We need job support because society rewards sociopaths and punishes people on the spectrum. I have been bullied by sociopaths at work. They manipulate friendships at work and will poison the environment. I think they dislike quiet people in general.

I have aspergers syndrome and many other mental heath problems I wake up every day with pain and hate on my brain I hate life all I want is to be gone far away from this place we live it's hard having mental health disorders no1 understands how difficult it is to just get by day by day it's exhausting me now knowing I will never be accepted or understood.. it really hurts

This breaks my heart. My son is ASD and he is only 10 years old. He's been in an inclusion class since he was in preschool. He's quite aware of the kids who reject him because of his limitations and it makes me sad for him. He's extroverted too and very friendly.

I never wanted friends or expirenced lonliness. Whenever people tell me I need to get out and socolize more, I flip them the bird and tell them they have no right to dictate how I live my life.

People in the spectrum need to seek each other. You guys will be so much happier creating communities just exclusively for you!! I learned in school about deaf community, they basically have clubs and schools for people who can not hear , and sign language bonds them together.

*Crying* It made my life hell too, not just growing up, but to this day as well. My boss hated me, everyone at work hated me, a lotta people online still hate me. All because I'm an aspie and I have a love for Disney. It does NOT get better. It gets WORSE. I just wanna die!

Tbh life is easier for struggling autistic people if they just commit suicide. A young man I know (on spectrum) has attempted suicide 4 times, tbh i really wanted to say to him that his life is worth living, but knowing this young man for almost 20 years, I can't see any evidence that his life is worth living - he has constantly struggled, and although i never said so, i can't help but feel that suicide is his only chance to no longer struggle and suffer. It's time suicide was ok to be a viable option, where people don't try to talk you out of it. My biggest regret is that I didn't commit suicide as a teenager, would've saved myself a lot of heartache.

Sadly your are right and it happening to me. My depression & low self is getting worse as I get older but on the plus side I am more intellectually smarter in the knowledge of facts (the more older I get). (Aspergers Male age 28)

I agree with this. I was suicidal for ten years from as early as age seven, primarily because of social things, like not understanding anyone and having no one who understood me. I'm not surprised at all at this study, and I think we really should have better programs in place to assist people on the autism spectrum, especially children and teenagers.

My 16 year old grandson committed suicide one month ago. He wasn’t diagnosed with Asberger’s but I believe he suffered with it. Thank you for reaching out with your video. I believe it will help others before it is too late. Now, the family is going over everything he ever said or did to try to gain some insight. I really just wanted to say, please keep up the work. It’s worth it if you save only one life or help one Aspie to get help so they can enjoy life.

I am so sorry for your loss. :(

Yoga, meditation, affirmations and scripting along with a healthy diet has improved my functioning and coping. I avoid sugar, starches like white rice/all potatoes. I eat a diet High in veggies, some protein and fat. Almost keto. It makes me feel less drained. The meditation and scripting (I write down my large and small goals in gratitude and a feeling of having accomplished them) and yoga calm down my nervous system and I’m often better at dealing with the normal people. I still love to be by myself and my creative pass-times. I also avoid comparing myself with others. We are all our unique selves. Every human being has a god given light, often covered with layers and layers of less important stuff. Some are savvy enough to have a great career or surround themselves with lots of people they don’t really know which will keep them from discovering this Light and some cover the light with negativity or insecurity. We are all equal and have the same challenge: uncover and discover our Light, our true selves and potential. The rest is the Matrix. If people don’t get you, it’s their shortcoming.

Thank you for reaching out to support and assist teenagers and children living with asperger's and autism. Blessings to you as you make a difference in their lives by showing them that there is hope and that they have a great value and worth. Kelly Langston (author of Autism's Hidden Blessings).

My mortality no longer frightens me. When it comes I will hug it and ask it why it stayed so long. People that want to prolong living like this are sick and cruel. Let the unwilling and weary rest, and those with the desire go on.

I think about suicide often. Older Aspie. All the things I have failed at. But I doubt if I ever will. There is something about life in the final analysis that keeps me keeping on. But I think about it often, hence watching this video.

I am autistic (level 2) and I think about suicide quite a lot. I fantasize about it sometimes, I consider that I dont have the guts to go through with it but sometimes I really wish I did. I feel so isolated and looked down at by society in general and by most people I come in contact with. The only people who seem to care about me more than superficially or from a distance are those who are paid to. I offend people all the time when I dont mean to and people seem to have very little patience for my difficulties that I try like hell to act like I dont have. I see things different from the norm and when I talk about those things it seems people are repulsed by me. I have significant trouble maintaining any sort of relationship with anyone long term, I make temporary friends, nothing lasting or meaningful. I have a profound inability to connect with others and generally I am looked down on for many reasons. I grew up in significant abuse, was abandoned in detention because my mother swore to a bogus warrant, she didnt want me, no one else does either. I've fallen in love and given my all and still I'm not good enough, no one wants a partner who has my difficulties, no one wants a partner they have to help with their day-to-day functioning, especially if he's intelligent, he's perceived as "lazy" or whatever. I find myself hopelessly lonely most of the time, tortured by the want to have meaningful, lasting friendships and relationships with others and to enjoy a long-term intimate connection with a significant other but the reality is that I am not worth the hard work one might have to put in to be able to sustain such a concept with me. I dont want to live in this world, I have spent probably 92% of every awake moment in the past 25 years of my life wishing some tragic accident would happen to take me out of this world. I have spent probably 20% of that time contemplating how I could force the hand of fate in that way. Yesterday, I was going to do go through with it. I decided against it because I considered some people who would be terribly affected and because I also knew that there were people who were prepared to stop me because they knew where I was going to be. Still, I dont want to live in this world. I hate living in this world. I can never find fulfillment or a valuable/helpful purpose to serve. I am a waste. A degenerate. And clearly, I'm not worthy of real love. I dont deserve to have someone in my corner or a group of friends to help me through my frequent tough experiences. I dont deserve them because I am too difficult to deal with... so what should I do? Hoping for an accident to happen is getting really old. 😔😔

From the lives of autistics,I learn two things-first,to celebrate small achievements-and secondly,to make inanimate things like money or nature one's friends.Some people have made money their friend(instead of their master) and have benefitted.

i want romantic n freindships but they dont exist as for education my mom threw me in a grouphome at 10 n i got out at 21 n now im 34 n i havent had friends sence 5th grade

Please my Autistic extended family, yes, life on this spinning rock is on hard mode for us but keep your eye on the prizes. We usually bloom later in life and Jesus Christ and our eternity with Him. ❤

Thank you very much , it is very important to raise awareness in terms of this condition. Very helpful video.

Had a taxing life with unsocial and incapable parents, faced a lot of bullying at school for my migration background, always felt like an alien with an intense level of sadness, anxiety and depression. Still managed to get myself a university degree at one of the top business schools in my country, had two short-term relationships, later at age 27 figured out I have the Asperger/ADHD combo, worked for 6 years in the insurance business earning good money (more than 90% of all neurotypicals), rode my bike up every Alpine pass in my country, did the famous Alpe d'Huez, traveled a lot. At the moment I am building a Lego ;). At age 34 I am tired of life and have the feeling I have seen it all. I am also terribly drained by interactions with neurotypicals. I think suicide is a reasonable option for people who are happy to leave saying they have seen it all and did their best in life.

unfortunately in my case, aspergers is genetic for the men in my family, my grandfather had it hard, my father not as bad and I was somewhere in between. the sad thing, as much as my mom tries to avoid admitting how much she dislikes the autistic traits in my grandfather, people she knows and even her own son. I just don't measure up to some metric she expected from her irish catholic side, and she expects me to get married and give her grandchildren when going out with a stranger and getting intimate with someone I don't know terrifies me. but she expects me to be something that I am not, and the irony of it all is, why did she marry dad if she didn't want a son like me? Opa reproduced because marriages were the custom at the time, and he mostly left his wife alone and she did the same. Dad, I have no idea why she chose him, I don't know if dad knew either, but now I am lost. yes you can go out and possibly hook up with a stranger whom you are barely comfortable with, being judged and measured the entire time, or stay home and work on other things, but be lonely. its a mess.

God it's like having someone read your mind TO you :S

I have contemplated suicide many times in my life, the first time was after my grandmother on my mothers side died, and it resurfaced on and off throughout high school and reared its ugly head most recently after my Dad's side of the family betrayed him and sold the house he has lived in since after him and my mom got divorced just shortly after my grandmother on my fathers side who lived in that same house died and left him with nowhere to go.

Thanks for being brave and sharing

In my own life,I have found ways of rewarding myself for the rejections I face.This,coupled with an empowering spirituality(Nichiren Buddhism) helps.

Great video. Thanks a lot

Thank you for this. 👈💯

Hell I have aspergers syndrome and I already want to die after being 11-12 years emotionally wounded. I feel misunderstood by this wicked ass culture we live in. I'd just rather be a horse along with my horses or die as a human feeling unappreciated for just existing.

Hi Arman :) May you please post a link to the study? I have a fascination with research and don't take people's word for things (as an Aspie, lol). Thank you :)

Socialisation should be seen in perspective.One of the big business magnates of the past-Howard Hughes-was a recluse-yet it didn't come in the way of his financial success.

this helps me alot. thnx :)

@jamister91 You may not be "ugly" as you think. Most of us think we're ugly to a degree/in some way but there's someone out there for everyone. One who thinks YOU are beautiful. As I age, I realize that when someone sees your beauty only because of your physical appearance, it's shallow. I've had "ugly" friends who were beautiful to me because knew their INSIDES. We all grow old and get big noses and ears and saggy parts. Being with someone who has beauty inside is MUCH more important. Hugs.

Where did you find that study?

I have lost so many friends to suicide and 1 family member

everyone has the right to neck themselves. i have aspergers and i dont see the big deal, one day your alive, the next your not. the sun will rise again and the world will go on, the only difference is that the pain has stopped. you dont get better from autism

@Kevileya Well and you may be like this too, but I'm not accepted by anyone. and i mean ANYONE. and it just irritates me and depresses me so fucking much. I wish i could let it just roll off my shoulder, but when you have on one at all, shits hard. ya know

God bless us all and everyone

I love you all so very much I know and I understand

Socialising is not that important for success.One of the great businessmen of the past,Howard Hughes,was a recluse.

It's in our very DNA to self terminate at a young age. But that's just the way God made us, for a short time!!

I currently feel that way hence watching this video. This is my thoughts in a poem Sometimes when all we do is ask for help the only thing we have left is to stop asking. Im tired, im done, may this be the last breath, my death you see maybe scary for many but honey dont worry I've been ready, it wont be painful as it lasts 1min from being in the tub with water filled up high my sliced throat so baby please don't cry. You never knew me. Nor cared to. As you prob seen my many posts. I've been living my life of attempts to be free sucide by cop was by all the worst means. You ask if I have a criminal record and am looked down upon simply for trying to leave peacefully. Although I was charged for suicide by cop im determined and never will give up. I've tried a.45 and that was hell because I freaked my complex out and when inti a nutshell while being poked and proded. Still misunderstood no one gets autism but refuses to look at my records and go from there. They put a label on me as if im a barcode as if im a recycled paper that keeps getting burnt. If people stopped diagnosing and understood the most common disability maybe maybe my life would have been deserved. I miss Kristin Herstam, I have always loved halo rescue, I miss my bros. But I wont miss this life. Since I was 7 ive wanted this too stop, just to be loved, accepted, and understood, for not to be constantly left by those ive trusted most, the years of sexual assault and strangulation will be left in the dirt. My animals mean no harm I know the law. So they will go back in loving arms. I know what im saying as competent as can be this is my last breath dont waste a kiss for me.

@jamister91 Jarty, don't say that about yourself! Sure, I've never met you in person, but I think you're a great friend! You have a friend in me. Don't ever say you're ugly! Cause based on how much I know you, you have a beautiful soul : )

I argee with on this.

I sometimes feel to.die only God grace saves me

Life is so vert hard

It sucks because they would rather talk about the 2nd amendment or toxic masculinity, but not how individuals with as go postal or suicidal. I think the right and the left would find better results if they focused more on as issues, considering a lot of these people who committed these crimes were autistic. It dose not sell as much so we better not count on it though. The sad thing is the more they ignore our situation the worse things get for everybody..

I don't really have a problem attracting women although I have Aspergers. One reason for this is that one of my special interests in weightlifting which really arose through a side interest when I was 18. My problem was the flirting game. I bought a book and read about it however (yes I had to study it lol) and now can recognise more easily when it happens and can play the game easier. They are books we can study that teach socialising. Why not use our intelligence and read up on it?

My God!!! Don't hurt yourself! Go to my channel and see my video about bullies. I will pray for you. I know how you are feeling. Let's be friends. Everybody needs them. I know the pain you must be in. It makes me cry too. Stay strong and message me anytime.

@jamister91 @jamister91 -Who told you that you are ugly? Are you using your criteria which, if you have ASD like I do, is probably a little skewed anyway, no offense meant. I doubt you are ugly.

@armankhodaei My bearded dragon is my best friend and she fulfills all my socialization needs.

30x’s? Um, no.