Autism and depression.

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How does a person with autism looks while is having a depression attack

I mean, im right now feeling so bad, that i dont want to eat(didnt eat for like 4 days until my mom took me to the doctors and they just BS me until i started to eat just for inercia), dont want to do anything, dont want to go to college, just want to stay at home in my bed, or maybe the tv or the computer, i have even been searching for ways to kill myself in internet.

Yet i compared myself with the people i've seen in tv and they seem to be more apparent, they just dont do nothing, i dont want but still kinda do it, go to college, thinking in my head, like im going to kill myself(my ocd is stronger right now), but kinda cope with my responsabilitys, cant concentrate, but try, and when fail just dont do anything, go to classes, and if the stress attack then i just get out.
People seem to notice, that im acting different, but not like depression, they have told me since like a month this depression started, that they feel that im a little "distant", yet in my mind i feel like i lost all reason to live, seriosly, before this depression attack i just thought i was from another planet, but maybe in this sick world, i could find people like me(i have never meet an autistic person), but right now, i just think there is not point of living for me, that im destinated to an alone live, and i should die, just because that way, this suffering will stop.

So, what do you guys think, Does the depression can be notice in autistic easily or not?

Well, I think this is one of these kinds of questions that can be generalized. All NT people with depression are different, and the same goes for autistic people. Depression affects people differently, and people handle it in different ways. I had REALLY bad depression for many years, and it was obvious to my family. I doubt it was obvious so much to the outside world, though, because I am not depressed right now, but sometimes people think I am (because I give off very little emotion ever).

I have bouts of depression. As a matter of fact, I'm going through one now. I suffer a lot of anxiety too. But it never seems to affect my appetite, or sleep, or digestion. It just affects the way I feel about myself and others around me, I find myself complaining about more things than usual, and I get more bad-tempered, tearful and easily offended. I also just want to stay in my bed watching films and forgetting my life.

I've had very strange depression moments. One time my dad told me he would get me a Kindle Fire if I memorized a bunch of specific stuff that I had been memorizing. Before I was memorizing at such a slow rate that there was no way for me to meet a certain deadline of around three months. After he told me this, I had them all memorized in a week. When I was on the second to last unit of memorizing, my dad told me that I also had to finish a certain class in school that I was kind of near completing the work for. After he told me this, he left to go on a business trip and I went to sleep. I was very sad and depressed about the whole thing but not outwardly. I didn't freak out or really react on the outside- I just kind of shut down. After my mom told my dad about this episode he told me that I could just do the memorizing to get the Kindle Fire because he didn't know that it was such a big deal to me. Similar instances have happened a few times, but not at all frequently.

For me, the depression was far more obvious than the Asperger's. I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder at 13. Didn't find out about the Asperger's until 27.

Depression can be dangerous, Rixxar. Please be safe. If it gets really bad you can go straight to emergency room for help. Life does not have to be this way. I know.

And remember to eat! Even if you don't feel like it.