I claim that for adult Aspies there is this slow build up of "an intolerance of life, an inability to have the desire to continue." (From the video) My theory here is that Aspies get 'burned out' of life at about twice the speed that Neurotypicals do. For example, an NT may be tired and done with life at 90, while a 45 year old Aspie is just as tired and worn out by life as the NT 90 year old. Life burns us out faster. ______________________________________________ Ready To Give Up On Life: The Lived Experience of Elderly People Who Feel Life Is Completed and No Longer Worth Living "The aim of this paper is to describe the phenomenon ‘life is completed and no longer worth living’ ...as it is lived and experienced by elderly people." "The essential meaning of the phenomenon is understood as ‘a tangle of inability and unwillingness to connect to one's actual life’, characterized by a permanently lived tension.." FROM: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953615002889 _____ Tired of Living? ..."she wailed—a poignant comment coming from deep inside someone who knew the pain of having lived too long... ...a significant minority of people in a small country in Western Europe believe that old people who are healthy should be allowed to die, and should be helped to die..." FROM: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cusp/201312/tired-living _______________________________________ Autism & Suicide ..."adults with autism and no intellectual disability are over nine times more likely to commit suicide when compared to their age-matched peers. Unlike the general population, in which men are significantly more likely to commit suicide than women, women with autism were at higher risk of suicide in this study than men." FROM: The Suicide Epidemic Among High-functioning Persons with Autism LINK: https://church4everychild.org/2016/04/03/the-suicide-epidemic-among-high-functioning-persons-with-autism/ The British Journal of Psychiatry Paper: Premature mortality in autism spectrum disorder LINK: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/208/3/232 LINK to data: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/208/3/232/figures-only _____ Suicidal Thoughts 10 Times More Likely in Adults With Asperger’s LINK: https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/10/13/suicidal-thoughts-10-times-more-likely-in-adults-with-aspergers/76016.html Suicidal Thoughts Alarmingly Common In People With Autism LINK: https://spectrumnews.org/features/suicidal-thoughts-alarmingly-common-in-people-with-autism/ _____ BURNOUT "..the higher functioning you are, the more others expect of you and also, the more you push yourself.” FROM: http://aspified.com/burnout/ - Autism and Aging (and burnout) "In autistic burnout we come to the end of our resources that enable us to act as if we ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mAXkn4C-7Q

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Women and Autism. Towards a Better Understanding | Sarai Pahla | TEDxMünster : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MA7o6FgPRU Hidden Asperger’s-- Girls with Aspergers | Niamh McCann | TEDxDunLaoghaire : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2ctCuTWPw ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnCPZU61n0M