Have you ever felt inadequate about yourself to a point where you want to die?

I'm new to posting here so apologies if this doesn't make sense.

I am an autistic woman in her early 20's and was diagnosed pretty early on (around 2 years old). For years, I have felt something was wrong with me because I am autistic and also have clinical depression. I was always getting comments throughout my education in regards to being too quiet, needing to "step out of my comfort zone", needing to socialise more etc. These comments have been a part of childhood trauma where I was also abused by certain family members (who I am on a no contact basis with now).

As of recently, I have had a family friend/colleague say these things, also saying how will I cope if my parents were gone and how I need people (even though they fail to understand that I have childhood traumas and cannot trust people easily). I have to keep explaining myself and when I do I get the "I know you have a disability" comment but I have to look past it, I have to cope etc. This is something that will remain for the rest of my life. At one point I used to have good self esteem but now feel like I am reverting back to childhood again where people are using and abusing me.

and everytime it is like the equivalent of a hammer beating into my head to the point where I can no longer function. I feel inadequate and a failure of a daughter as no matter how hard I try, I can never be the person people want me to be. I suppose I have come far in life, I have finished education despite ongoing issues and have been capable of holding down jobs for a total of nearly 5 years. I am working in a full-time job which I recently started 3 months ago but right now have taken time off for today due to having a panic attack at work. Bereavement piles on to this because I lost someone close to me and I feel I have lost a piece of myself.

It is hard to know who I am because certain people tell me who I am is wrong. I feel like I want to off myself. 

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  • I feel like I'm in an impossibly deep hole to dig myself out of. The people who were supposed to raise me have done nothing to guide me towards being a fully functioning person. I'm 31 years old with the life experience of someone half my age because no one was ever willing to shake me awake. Now I'm facing doing it myself and knowing that I'm looking at years of work just to undo what I've done to myself because I was too depressed myself and no one put in any real effort to stop me.

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  • I feel like I'm in an impossibly deep hole to dig myself out of. The people who were supposed to raise me have done nothing to guide me towards being a fully functioning person. I'm 31 years old with the life experience of someone half my age because no one was ever willing to shake me awake. Now I'm facing doing it myself and knowing that I'm looking at years of work just to undo what I've done to myself because I was too depressed myself and no one put in any real effort to stop me.

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