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[-] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Suicide is one of the top three causes of death for autistic people. The other two are heart disease and epilepsy complications, and on average we die under 50 years of age.

[-] AnotherOne@feddit.de 41 points 1 year ago

What they don't understand though is that the suicide part isn't caused by autism. It's caused by people being horrible to each other. Or in other words: people with autism die because people without it make living hell for them.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Yes, but that's not due to autism, that's due to the way society treats autistic people.

[-] ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

that's due to the way society treats autistic people.

So when is that going to change

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'd love to know.

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My daughter has it, and I'd say about 5-10 years ago it changed. The amount of acceptance is so much higher than it used to be. Obviously we need work, but hell in my city there are special times at both grocery stores and movie theatres for neuro-diverse people. The difference to a decade ago is extreme.

[-] moitoi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It's beginning to change in the academic world. The deficit model is falling for the difference/diversity paradigm.

[-] Globeparasite@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

actually everyone treat others like shit. But what NT have is a much stronger upport circle and fewer difference.

By fewer difference I mean that you cant pick on someone that everyone around him does : A boss can't really bully a NT for using implicite dicourse when all of their collegues does the exact same, they would immediately realise something is wrong. The average NT knowing jackshit about autism, it can be easy to trick them into thinking that ND should "just make an effort" to understand implicite discourse.

That's sad part, we are technically all targeted with the same amount of flak so if you are slightly out of cover, you get blasted away

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

actually everyone treat others like shit.

That's simply not true.

[-] Globeparasite@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

that might be an exageration but that is surprisingly common

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's also the 2nd leading cause of death for 2SLGBTQ+ youth:

The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health found that 45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth.

So there's a lot more suffering in general for anyone basically not white, straight, (and depending on circumstances, male). Autism isn't a death sentence. While people with severe autism struggle a lot more than most, they can have very good fulfilling lives. Source: My daughter (23) has (moderate) autism and her best friend (23) has severe.

[-] Globeparasite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

can add the healthy for white and straight if you're in the USA. Also just methodologically poc are faced with very different risk with racially motivated crimes and the fact that ethnic getthoisation create strong social support structures will help curb suicidal tendencies.

Even if the struggles can be similar, the supplementary problem with LGBTQ+, is loneliness. There are actually very few of them, so finding people like you that understand your struggles is very difficult. That really hit me when I talked for the first time with people leading association supporting LGBTQ, most of the work is reaching out to people to tell them they are not alone

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