What is the source of depression in people with autism?

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Agree with the above.

I guess in addition despite its bad reputation as people many do want to but can't fit in.

That autism is a thing that is with you 24/7 and it is a lifelong condition.

Our perception of ourselves and others is a key player in depression.

When we are low we see the world differently and often more negatively and this keeps us down.

The world can suddenly seem a very scary place.

Then if anxiety raises it's ugly head then we are held in an even more complex vault.

I often wonder what resources guard against depression and where does the resilience come from in people who seem almost immune from mental health issues.

So I study well-being as well as ill-health and try to make sense of our human vulnerabilities.

I fell into a bad psychotic depression after me & my 1st girlfriend broke up. She was the 1st person I felt I could really relate to & understood me. We had some weird things in common like dyslexia, ADHD & OCD. We were best friends before she told me she liked me. I was probably depressed before we broke up & didn't realize it which contributed to problems within our relationship. My parents were on my back about getting a job. I was putting in apps at every place I could think of that might of had a job I could do which wasn't a whole lot due to being disabled. My parents were on my back about how I wasn't working because I was lazy & then when I told em I was trying to find a job, they got on my back about not going to college. I struggled in skewl aLOT due to dyslexia & other related learning disabilities. I had tried taking a computer repair corse but barely understood any of it so I decided that wasn't the job direction for me. it cost my parents abit of money & took abit of time that I guess we all felt after could of been used for other things.

trouble with relationships. trouble making friends. sensory overload. feeling/ being treated like an alien.
also i should add - often bullied.

there are perks too, of course. I think thinking outside the box, being deeply in touch with oneself and having a busy and colourful mental universe can [in part] make up for other "lacks". I also think a lot of people go through life feeling empty, bored and re enacting societal clichés. it seems to me, aspies have a great deal of internal resilience thanks to their curiosity and interests.

For me it´s from boredom. I am so easily unstimulated that I get depressed and in worse case angry.

One word: LONELINESS.

I'm someone who struggles with severe depression for a long time and I don't know what actually depresses me, but I've been having episodes lately and the thoughts revolve around fear of failure, fear of losing financial stability, hating having to work beyond an age where my very flesh will peel off, lack of freedom to pursue whatever makes me happy.... then it extends to a world that's absurd and seemingly beyond repair, too many selfish people... overall a world in which I don't want to live in.

Then I look at the past and I remember how I was naive, gullible, clumsy, taken advantage of... the many regrettable mistakes and the amount of people to whom I'd say I'm sorry... but then I remember many of those people were never properly kind to me themselves. I remember all the ignorance, hatred, prejudice, isolation...

So, it's a very dark place and it gets darker and darker.

When all my
coping skills and
workarounds and
(((avoidances)))
fail
and the stressorssss
remain staring at me,
my insides shut
down.
No happy or sad or
success or failure
and barely any
me.

I get depression because I think about things too much. I've always compared my life to everyone else's. And I seem to have a fear of not having the same experiences others have had. I've never been clubbing, never drank, never been away on holiday with friends, and never had a proper social life when I was younger. It's always got to me. And I've always blamed my Asperger's for it.

People just tell me to stop being jealous and that I cannot control other people's lives.

Mostly, other people. With or without autism. Sartre got it right, halfway: hell is other people. The kicker is, heaven can be, too, though it's mostly cats.

I feel like----if a cat gets along with a dog, and vice versa, that there's harmony in the house.

Bullies, not being believed or listened too. Constantly being belittled and degraded. Never having my voice matter