TheMachine1 wrote:
.. Others however
have nothing and live lives in quiet desperation.
Its natural those of you who do not live with a loaded 9mm 4 feet from you to want the media to think your just a another variant of normal. I tend to live in the spectrum of aspergers where suicide is more likely so I relate to this lady...
Yes, and no.
I have quite a lot by some reckonings but know a lot about quiet desperation.
The situation IMPROVED, however, when I obtained my diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, (as an adult). It finally gave me a framework for understanding the rest of this world which fitted most of the pieces together.
I've been depressed enough to consider suicide, but don't consider that proof that my brain is "ravaged". Au Contraire! It's also evidence that it works and isn't just drifting through life.
To look at the world and never have wondered whether life is worth living? Now that I consider odd!
"I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide." - William James (and he wasn't being trivial about that)
Asperger's is about seeing too little *and* too much, thinking too little *and* too much
(By conventional measures. I agree with you there: I'm not just a minor variation on "normal", however well I can pass for it, if I choose.)
This was an interesting letter I turned up while confirming the wording of the Willam James quotation:
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/rep ... 1/171a.pdf