Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 10,752 Location: Turkey
09 Jan 2010, 4:09 pm
I'm not sure. I think it's just as common for NT's to become depressed around adolescence.
I became depressed for the first time around the age of 14 but I'm not sure reason for it was related to my ASD. I was a loner in school but I don't have any recollection of being particularly bothered by it. I was teased/bullied occasionally but it was really nothing compared to what a lot of others had to endure. I had NT classmates who got bullied far worse than I did. When I recall my first episode of depression it pretty much corresponds to the first time I found myself contemplating "what's the point of going to school? what's the point of doing anything?". It was also the time I first realized that the adults in my life didn't really have answers for me. Suddenly the world wasn't the cozy comforting place it used to be in childhood.
09 Jan 2010, 2:30 pm
