anyone know someone who killed themselves ?

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Seems like autistics would be more prone to suicide

The people I have known who have killed themselves were not autistic.

Yeah. My uncle committed suicide. He wasn't autistic though.

My brother committed suicide when he was eighteen years old. That was in 1971 long before anyone knew anything about Asperger's. In retrospect, he would have been a living stereotype of an Aspie if he were around today.

On the other hand a close friend of mine of more than 30 years committed suicide in September. He was by far the most normal person I have ever known. On top of that he had recently retired with a fabulous pension and loads of money. He was always popular and well respected everywhere he worked and lived. He was good looking, cultured, intellectual with a fabulous sense of humor, multilingual and well travelled.

My ex-fiancée committed suicide in 1998, at age 35. It might have been an accidental overdose. She was not autistic.

Three people I knew well committed suicide, although none of them were autistic. Are autistics more prone to kill themselves? They might think about it more than NTs, but do they follow through?

A couple of people in high school and a son of a family our family were close with in the 1960's did it as a young adult.

No I do not......though I have attempted, and thought about it since then.

Yes - several.

None were autisic.

The only person I know who killed themselves was also not on the spectrum. I think I can see a pattern emerging here ... although I did vaguely know one person on the spectrum who disappeared and - afaik - hasn't been seen since.

Yeah, a high school friend. No idea how his brain worked and I suppose I shouldn't speculate, although he was an amateur mechanic & pyromaniac. I've also known friends who attempted it whilst hallucinating.

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I personally knew two people who committed suicide.

There was another but I didn't know him. One night when I was a kid, we were driving to town and saw what looked like a small fire at an power company station a mile from the main highway just outside of town. We drove over to take a look and saw a car on fire. It had apparently just began and wasn't engulfed in flames.

My father called the police on the radio and managed to pull some guy out of the car. Within a few minutes they arrived along with the fire department and an ambulance and took the guy to the hospital. It turned out the guy in the car was trying to commit suicide.

When I attended a private Christian school, I knew of an older student who killed himself. The school was very strict and cult-like, and he was gay.

The only other people I have known of who killed themselves, were all associated with the same psychic channeling group.

I think people who get involved in religious cults and other cult-like groups are most at risk for suicide.

I've been friends and close with a few people that killed themselves, all male, mostly under 25; at least one was neurodiverse, and with hindsight all displayed some symptoms of depression.

fortunately nobody i know has reached that point, but two have come pretty close. one was a very close female friend of mine, whom i met right after she had recovered from a very ugly episode.

the second was Kol. it was the very first thing she mentioned, the first time she really reached out to me. that i was her "only friend" besides her boyfriend who she later broke up with less than a month later. she got a bit better i think but soon enough i lost my mind over her and i was the one feeling like that.

i will not say any more.

neither were close to being on the spectrum.

I can think of a handful of people that I have known that have killed themselves. My brother's best friend did it 25 years ago, my best friend's brother did it about 10 years ago. I have also had a couple of high school classmates that have taken their lives. Everyone other than the brother of my friend was (I presume), neurotypical. My friend's brother had some mental illness and addiction issues going on at the time.

Probably the most significant suicide in my life was when my best friend from my time in college made the decision to end his life a little less than two years ago. He struggled with schizophrenia most of his adult life, and was in a psychotic episode when he passed. Probably one of the brightest and most cultured persons that I knew. He was on the staff at the college that I went to, so we would spend a lot of time together there. We also were active in the same church, and in politics and civic affairs. He always wanted to do more with me, I feel bad that I didn't spend more time outside of these venues. When he had his psychotic break, he disappeared from the world. Even though I regularly saw a family member, there was very little conversation about how he was doing in the year he disappeared to his suicide. Sadly, in the grief of this situation, I ruminate and obsess over the friendship and his death. The latest obsession has been trying to find someone to replace him, which I have yet to do.