Is despair a common feeling among people with ASDs?

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I HAVE to stay on an anti- depressant, or I cry VERY easily! So, I'd have to say, YES- Depression IS a big problem for people who suffer from ASDs....

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

I mostly suffer of anxiety which is causing me lot of despair. Usually sudden noises make me enter in a state of shock and helplessness. I feel sick to my stomach and sometimes get ticklish feelings moving all over my body and can't calm down until I start walking or putting the headphones on my ears. It really sucks.
However, I'd rather prefer to be anxious than depressive. Depression is far worse to me because you constantly feel it.

Depends what the feelings of despair is with. Everybody feels despair to a degree. But I mostly feel despair of other people who do stupid things, like getting involved in relationships with the wrong person and already knowing it but not bothering to see the warning signs then whining when they are in deep s**t. Also I despair of people who do stupid things like have affairs behind their current partner's back. Why do it?

Obviously not all NTs are like it, but there are a lot out there, and we're the ones who are naive and socially immature? I despair of that, too.