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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is suicide common in people with aspergers? |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 26 Nov 2016, 10:24 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 8,330
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| When I was a child & a teenager, I didn't think about suicide, I didn't know I had Asperger until later in life. In my 20s, I started having a little depression & once I had bad insomnia, I was talking sleeping pills, I remember I couldn't take it anymore, I wanted to kill myself. I wanted ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is suicide common in people with aspergers? |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 5:44 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 8,330
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| Omg thoughts of suicide I do not go a single day without being like omg,this sucks so bad lets all just kill ourselfs wooooo! like seriouslyIits messed up.im right there with you my parents use to beat me with furniture,and bricks,one time my mother strangled me with a chord to make me stop crying(... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Everybody Is Identical: a response to An Open Letter to the Depressed Aspergian |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 24 Nov 2016, 5:00 pm
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Replies: 90
Views: 18,875
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Touching article. I'm 34 and every year I understand the reason for the suicide statistics a little bit more  |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Asperger in the Workplace |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 24 Nov 2016, 4:47 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,933
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| Hello All, This is my first time posting to this (or any) website. Although I have never been officially diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome by a dcotor, I am pretty darn sure that it is responsible for my behavioral patterns that some people might find...well...strange. I am a 39 year old male, and I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else get gibbed by the "asperger experts" p |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2015, 5:00 am
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Replies: 51
Views: 39,118
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| hidden agenda for what? I'm annoyed that i was targeted for being an aspie and had money sucked out of me. unlike you rich folks, I work on an hourly wage as my aspieness allows and disposable income is not a common thing for me.... so dont be a prick Aspies in their 50's through 80's have it worst?... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I resend my father |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2015, 5:42 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 459
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| So for the first time in my life, at age 33, I finally have gotten a healthcare plan through my job and started seeing a psychologist, a good one who was board of an entire behavioral department for over a decade. she shocked me when she told me she believes most cases of mental illness are due to u... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Feel as though suicide is inevitable |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2015, 2:30 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,288
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| I have BPD and I say almost the exact same thing everyday. People get sick of me and I get tired of hearing that I have too much to appreciate in life. People don't get it. It's not tht I don't care about anything. It's just a numb feeling of eternal disappointment. I love my aspie bf and even he g... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Feel as though suicide is inevitable |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 4:46 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,288
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| You didn't get the memo? You're already dead and this is Hell. There's a ladder at the edge of the property that will get you into Heaven, in case no one told you. Oddly no one uses it, everyone say it's too hard to climb and there's no point doing so. I try the ladder myself but keep falling off. ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Feel as though suicide is inevitable |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 4:37 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 6,288
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| I have BPD and I say almost the exact same thing everyday. People get sick of me and I get tired of hearing that I have too much to appreciate in life. People don't get it. It's not tht I don't care about anything. It's just a numb feeling of eternal disappointment. I love my aspie bf and even he g... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Dealing with Poverty and its implications |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2015, 8:00 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,669
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| JackBruns- Actually I am married and live here with my husband, so no, I haven't been sexually assaulted. People here are just kind of rude and pushy, but nobody has messed with me. That's why I came here to be with my husband. Also I am looking for something along the lines of what you described, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you desire social interaction or not... |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2015, 4:05 am
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Replies: 51
Views: 3,160
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| and where are you on the spectrum...would you call yourself low functioning, high functioning or mid functioning? So this poll might kind of suck but it seems there are some varying opinions on this. I myself desire more interaction but I fail at it, so doesn't get me very far. So where do you fall... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is anxiety and depression your biggest problem with ASD? |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2015, 3:59 am
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,533
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| anxiety and depression are the most serious problems, but they are just symptoms of the inability to connect with people. It is the lack of genuine social connections and relationships that cause all of our problems. Any human would eventually develop anxiety and depression if they had an invisible ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone else get gibbed by the "asperger experts" p |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 4:22 pm
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Replies: 51
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| I sounds like you got "gypped." "Gypped," ultimately, is a slur on Egyptians/Gypsies. The shortened form of "Egyptian is where get the term "Gypsy" (for Romany people) from as well. Even though Roms/Gypsies actually have an Indo-European origin (with the emphasis ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Too old to be angry at Parents |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2014, 9:45 am
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Replies: 1
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| I'm 32, and out of left field these past few weeks, i've been feeling very upset... very angry at the way my parents raised me... It's a little late to feel anger towards my parents, especially since my mother passed away years ago and my father is 10 years into retirement.... it's out of left field... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: refusing invitations |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 27 Nov 2014, 10:29 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 641
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| Thinking back, I've spent every major holiday alone. I usually spend it sitting in my basement apartment, browsing the web, watching videos, and smoking cigarettes.... not much excitement.. I know Yesterday my boss asked me if I was doing anything for thanksgiving and invited me for dinner with his ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Sometimes I am really immature. |
| JacobV |
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Posted: 27 Nov 2014, 9:25 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 617
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| So I snuck into a cabinet of my moms boyfriend and stole a joint cause I was angry. Turns out he was holding onto it for a friend, hell even if it was just his I feel bad....it was a terribly stupid immature thing to do. Trouble is I have smoked most of the weed out of the joint. So its a given I w... |
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