This is gonna sound really stupid but it’s something I was meaning to ask

[Siamese Believe]

Does autism affect your approach to suicide? Does it make you plan for longer to ensure maximum lethality, assessing all the possible variables and outcomes of what could go wrong and right, moving more cautiously?

I ask since I know that autism can make you hyper analyze everything. Does this make autistic individuals better at suicide?

 

[underairpressure]

I'm...... not sure, honestly. Autism manifests a little differently in everyone who has it, so while having an almost clinic/scientific approach might happen with some autistic people, for others it might be overwhelming to them and make them unable to think clearly about it.

For me, it's kind of a mix of both. I've approached the topic of suicide in a very clinical, analytical way in the past, weighing possible outcomes and variables like you described...... but, in the end, the sheer amount of information and variables became overwhelming for me. It actually made me less likely to succeed, because when I get overwhelmed, I avoid whatever is causing it, meaning the only times I ever actually ATTEMPTED suicide were on reckless impulses, not coherently planned out.

 

[madameviolette]

I don't think so idk. Not long ago I met an autistic member here who ctb without thinking too much. I thought they were very courageous because I found a lot of flaws in their method

 

[meiherasoru_]

Being autistic really made my life very difficult, so it greatly influenced who I am now