Iapetus

Ok, I have about ten minutes before this migraine crucifies me and I'm spending them unwisely replying to you.

Me having an option for euthanasia and the advice that life doesn't get better, in my personal undiagnosed autism starter pack...

Is not me claiming to be the voice of all autistic people and stating that every autistic person should kill themselves because their lives are worthless and won't improve. I never even implied anything like that.

And my starter pack contents were also not me saying I'm about to off myself either.

My starter pack contained advice and an option. You provided everything else to this discussion.

I get that you were probably trying to help but deciding that what I wrote actually had to mean something else, is, no offense, very neurotypical of you in an autism forum.

It's been a day and I'm too tired for more words right now. I hope these memes can somewhat accurately portray what I'm trying to say instead.

An option for fast and painless euthanasia should be something every human has a right to and considered on par with access to birth control.

You can disagree all you like, just how you may disagree with birth control, and that's allowed. You are allowed to have your own opinions.

Your opinions are not fact however, so while you may think birth control is the work of the devil and should be banned and never spoken of again, this does not mean that you are right.

I was talking about symptoms and life experience, and also about the state of reality and how fucked everything is.

It doesn't get better, we're still powerless and our world is still run by abusers who make us complicit in their crimes. We cope with this till we die and that's life.

I'm glad that many of your experiences have been so much better than mine, but I have autism too and it's not at all rare for autistic folk to be depressed or live with life long depression and suicidal ideation due to our neurological condition making life so difficult for us.

The rate of death by suicide has been estimated to be 7.5 times higher in autistic people than those without an autism diagnosis.

That 'line goes up' graph shape has been termed a 'hockey stick' as it's become so prevalent in recent years.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/09/death-by-hockey-sticks/

I chopped them into bite sized pieces and just stuck them on top of the dry noodle cake in my lunchbox/tupperware, to be cooked with boiled water at lunch time.

Not the healthiest to be cooking stuff in plastic like that, but it was hella convenient.

My favourite response to this when is:

"Oh yeah? So what does autism look like? Go on, do your best impression. I want to see."

This is how I feel too. I'm vegan, don't drive, don't support shitty companies or politics and I spent much of my life trying to make shit better.

And for what? I'm just so fucking done having any faith in people improving at this point. At least if enough people know the world is ending, they might have fewer kids and this might lessen the length impact our species is having by a few fractions of a percentage.

I'm still trying to make shit better ffs and it's still not working, lmao.

Those Nongshim kimchi noodles are good! I had to stop eating them as I developed a wheat sensitivity, but they were my go to lunch topped with a Vivera (vegan) Salmon steak and some green onion, for like a year.

Those mock salmon slices only needed to be chopped up to be able to fully cook through in boiling water too, so it was hella convenient.

Says the person who called me dense, and then had to really reach to try and justify how the comment they called me dense over could possibly make sense.