Do you appreciate "Signposting" or would you rather a personal response

I think this will only become more of a problem now we have the Online Safety Act. Writing about your feelings on 'the S word' might be seen as encouraging it, and a response by a NAS official telling you the phone number for 999, 111, or the samaritans, is a good back-covering exercise for them. It also helps to make the do-gooder who copied and pasted it feel useful at the same time.

For this reason I will not comment on what I have been feeling recently or what I almost did last Thursday, and will leave it up to everyone's imagination.

[FYI: I have a Samaritans leaflet on my desk in case I am too dumb to remember their widely publicised six digit phone number]

With regards to other information, I may link to pages that I've found useful myself, but if I otherwise don't have anything to say then i won't say it.

As an example, one of the things that drives me to contemplate certain unspeakable (but common) actions is loneliness. I often go weeks without speaking to anyone. In response to this I expect some people would be very quick to tell me that this page exists: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/loneliness. 

"Reach out to others, such as family and friends" it says. Well, I thought people with autism etc didn't have friends and family. Maybe if we did, we wouldn't be lonely.

"Join our online community", "Use social media and online forums or gaming to connect". Says it all really.

I think this will only become more of a problem now we have the Online Safety Act. Writing about your feelings on 'the S word' might be seen as encouraging it, and a response by a NAS official telling you the phone number for 999, 111, or the samaritans, is a good back-covering exercise for them. It also helps to make the do-gooder who copied and pasted it feel useful at the same time.

For this reason I will not comment on what I have been feeling recently or what I almost did last Thursday, and will leave it up to everyone's imagination.

[FYI: I have a Samaritans leaflet on my desk in case I am too dumb to remember their widely publicised six digit phone number]

With regards to other information, I may link to pages that I've found useful myself, but if I otherwise don't have anything to say then i won't say it.

As an example, one of the things that drives me to contemplate certain unspeakable (but common) actions is loneliness. I often go weeks without speaking to anyone. In response to this I expect some people would be very quick to tell me that this page exists: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/loneliness. 

"Reach out to others, such as family and friends" it says. Well, I thought people with autism etc didn't have friends and family. Maybe if we did, we wouldn't be lonely.

"Join our online community", "Use social media and online forums or gaming to connect". Says it all really.

 your response did make me smile, along with some body perhaps pasting a link to a website offering advice on how to copy and paste advice.

I didn't want my initial question to belittle or to make people feel silly for doing what they think is correct, but at the same time I was very aware of (as I think you very accurately put it) the need for the corporate entity of the national autistic society, needing to have an element of cut and paste accountability, against actually helping someone. 

But I didn't want to make any assumptions that the way I feel is the way either a majority, significant minority or tiny minority felt. 

I've had lots of people tell me I should reach out to others, phone them etc, not for the S word, but for other things, just ask for help instead of struggling along and you know what, when I do nobodies around or answering, so then what? Just carry on getting on and struggle through by myself.

What if your family are the problem? There seems to be a misconception that everybody has loads of family with varying degrees of closeness, but I think thats wrong, I know I certainy don't have loads of family, half of the ones I do have are just names on the bottom of a xmas card and thats getting less and less over the years.