Is despair a common feeling among people with ASDs?

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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.

I frequently feel despair, especially in the city. The only things that don't are my girlfriend, who has unhuman patience with me, and nature. I think nature and animals are a godsend for aspies.

I hate my AS. I was diagnosed with it at age 9 and to this day I still hate it. I hate the way it made me behave as a child. I hate the way it made me end up taking antidepressants to control my outbursts. When I had outbursts I would shout loudly, slam doors and swear, and I don't know what the neighbours thought but my dad has probably told them what is "wrong" with me and they probably don't know the ins and outs of AS, so probably just look upon me as insane. I know I don't have outbursts any more thanks to the antidepressants but the neighbours still might not forget.

I also hate AS because I feel it has had a negative effect on my brother. He is NT, but has always been a very sensitive boy, and I took up a lot of attention as a child and was hard work at home, so no wonder my brother has grown into a depressive young man. I feel it's all my fault.

I wish I had behaved better as a child at least. My mum has a friend who's daughter may be on the spectrum, but she said that she's an easy child to have; no tantrums, no constant whining, no other aggravating behaviour. And she's 9. When I was that age I was a little brat that caused my mum to almost pull her hair out. Why couldn't I have just been a happy, placid, good little girl?