has your AS child threatened suicide?

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Mine has just started doing this (age 9 1/2) which doesn't surprise me, as my first suicidal ideation was at age 7.

I used to threaten Suicide as a Teenager. I didn't think that people saw me as a capable person who had a future. I also didn't think that people were going to change. I was also told not to talk through my Nose through an entire summer, a few years earlier. I was also dealing with the hurtful things that I've said about my Early Grade 7 Music Teacher, due to the hurtful way that my parents were acting towards my wonderful Cockney Accent. I was also dealing with memories of having my Obsessions frowned upon and getting yelled at, for having the very few Accidents that I've had and being afraid to look at my Waste, after that because of the memories that particular shade of Brown would bring back. I was dealing with the many times that my mother called me a Brat, after she told my little sister what a good girl she was. Sometimes it still gets to the point, that I want to end it all. I won't be feeling this way, once I move out. I'll be brimming with Cockney Spirit.

my 14 year old started at the age of 11 ......with ALOT of therapy he's much better now, and reports no more suicidal feelings now.

I threatened suicide when I was a child. However, that backfired big time. My parents threatened to have me locked up in a mental institution if I ever mentioned it again. Now, the problem is that I have relatives who are doctors with connections to hospitals all over the state, and they would always take my parents' side and never mine. So all it would take for my parents to have me locked up is a few phone calls about ten minutes of smooth talking. So I mostly kept my suicide plans to myself.

Our ds threatened to commit suicide one time. No one outside our house even has ever heard a word of it. My older son had come to visit for awhile, he and ds used to be very close. Hubby and I went out to dinner, for an hour, the first time we'd been out together without ds in 7 years.

We came home to find older son (13 years older than ds) holding ds down on the floor by all fours, ds screaming bloody murder. Hubby finally got older son off of ds, and found that ds told older son he hated him which started the fight. Older son was told we had expected him, at 22 and a father himself, to be the adult in the situation.

DS finally got up, was inconsolable, and threatened suicide all night. I slept all night in his bed, my legs wrapped around his, arms around him, and the next morning he woke up as if nothing had happened. (Meanwhile older son had been shuffled off to a local hotel, he'd worn out his welcome).

It was a first and hopefully last time, although I think if we'd been much later he may have gone further.

I think that AS kids, tend to overthink alot of things. So with all the overthinking, and consideration towards what may or may not happen in the future, they may mention suicide not understanding the finality of it. It could be their way of saying, "I'm stressed and want to cop-out." I have Asperger's Syndrome myself, so I'm basing this on my experiences.

I was suicidal mainly due to the medication they had me on and also all of the things that were kicking of.

I aslo self harmed and have only just recently managed to stop that.

I have been suicidal off and on but thats due to co morbid bipolar disorder.

From about 8 years old I would threaten suicide, I was an overthinker and had depression attacks where I just wanted to escape, these usually followed a confrontation with a parent or trouble at school. I had no real intention of carrying out the deed. I think it was just a symptom of having a lot of negative thoughts going on and panicking about what to do with them all.

Fresco, also probaly because adults seem to think that children don't have feelings like that, like they think if they say a child is sensitive it'll just make it go away. Also teachers seem to think something will come of emotionally abusing a child while calling it discipline, and then doing things like forcing a child to do hours of homework on their vacation. Like they expect a child not to want to run away from it all, when they're being faced down daily by a heartless tyrant.

I didn't answer the poll since my son never actually _threatened_ suicide, but he did want to die. He even told his therapist how he would do it, but knew it would hurt his family. He was severely depressed by events at school and just felt such a lack of control over his life and didn't know how to handle his emotions.

Luckily we changed his environment, changed our parenting, brought him home and now he loves his life - well, mostly (and, yes, he's told me that).

My oldest son threatened suicide at 14 once. Since then, he has said that he did so to get us to pick him up from a camp that he was attending and didn't enjoy. But I think he has mentioned that he had problems with thinking about suicide from the age of 8. I was very frustrated hearing this, because he was an incredibly cheerful child, and yet I know that we were somewhat hard on him because we didn't understand that he had Aspergers. We only found out he had these tendencies when our younger son was diagnosed.

He has since then matured and does not have suicidal thoughts any more. I think that now he feels more in control of his own destiny. He's a great young man.

I have no children of my own, but I voted "Yes", since I did that myself as a child. I hope that counts.

Sorry to hear that, en_una_isla.

I'm worried that as i havent even thought about it in my life will those thought's arise?

Well, I don't have a child. At least, I hope I don't. However, when I was ten, I don't think I knew what suicide was.

Are you sure he's truly suicidal and not just empty threats of the "I'll show you. You'll miss me when I'm gone" variety?