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A note saying it doesn't get better and an option for fast and painless euthinasia.
- ~~Yes officer this troll right here.~~
  Edit: After a long painful discussion (My fault, sorry Moon), The wording of this post implies what would you put in your own personal starter pack. Not a starter pack for everyone (witch was how I interpreted it). Moon is not a troll. I don't think they deserve the hate they are getting. This was all my bad. I am sorry.
  
  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.
  
  I thought you were a troll because you said it doesn't get better and I assumed you were talking about life experience. I think you were actually talking just about the symptoms.
  I wish you luck with your journey.
  
  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.
  
  Then your statement is just incorrect. Most autistic people find a way to improve their life experience. Even if it just learning about a new train engine. But also they can learn how to work with their symptoms to generally improve their lives.
  Yeah, life is hard, but that's no reason to miss represent the facts to paint punching your own ticket as a good idea to a larger group of people.
  Obviously, I don't know your personal situation, so you will have to make your own call.
  But it sounds like you are depressed, I would seek help.
  
  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 have no problem with euthanasia being a human right, as long as there is some legal framework around it to prevent bad things from happening. I have a couple of scenarios in my mind where I would probably use it. Also, if you decide rationally outside of depression that it is time for you to choose it, I respect that.
  My only issue was the whole, and I am paraphrasing here, "Autism dooms you to a life of suffering and there is nothing you can do about it".
  
  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.
  
  What I will say is that Depression is like your brain catching the flu. Just like if you caught the flu you wouldn't be able to do what you need to do. When your brain has the flu it can't do what it needs to do. Part of what your brain needs to do is to rationally assess the situation you are in. If your brain has the flu it can't do that. So things like punching your own tickets seem like a good idea, when rationally it often isn't the case.
  Just like getting over the flu, the brain needs to rest to recover.
  Both people who have a good life and a bad life get depressed. The problem the meme is pointing out is the people who have a bad life will not only have a harder time getting the ability to rest their brain, but also people, for no rational reason, assume the worst of people with bad lives. And assume they're just faking their depression or something. They're not, depression affects everyone. It's just easier to get it and harder to get rid of it if you have a bad life.
  
  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.
  
  Sorry, they do not. The vibes are sad (as a feeling, not an insult) though.
  
  I wish you could live your life in a more bearable way. I don't know what life is like for you and how you can make it easier for yourself. The way there is different for everyone. I wish you strength and hope.
  I'm not where I want to be yet. Accepting what I can achieve and figuring out what I really want and what I think I should do has helped a little. I have found support. It's better than before. But again, everyone is different.
  (Thanks deepl.com)
  And yes. Those statistics suck.
  E: the word acceptance only makes sense to me in hindsight. I had to experience it.
  
  This remark triggered a clarification. So thanks for the result.

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