Really terrible day, and suicide statistics for autistic women

It’s been a heavy day part of which was an intense meeting with my solicitor, then the bus journey home was its usual hideousness of over stimulation, nouse and smelly people and too too all close up,  then the street ferals are using my gates as a goal post, ball against windows set off house alarm twice, god knows maybe more damage to car too, some random guy turns up and the woman next door is sat on our wall like some kind of supervising gnome egging on the kids, and my cats are frightened, and I’m frightened, and and and …. no where feels safe, and I include this forum. My partner is on her way over and I’ve taken diazepam and trying to hang on, but it’s sooooo hard. In the past this sort of train of events has cascaded to suicide attempts, the last one being in October 2022 every so very nearly successful. There’s various statistics about adult autistic women and the latest I heard, on the the Christene M (?) documentary was that we are 12x more likely to attempt to end our own lives than the general population, I absolutely believe this. 

Emma 

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  • Thanks for your suppot, I’m ok, sort of, certainly safe anyway. Hazel arrived in the midst of it kicking off in the street and it was all really weird, made worse by her being accosted by a woman who we don’t know and who we think was either drunk or on drugs. Our evening was tough and actually nothing much is resolved but as I said, I’m safe. She’s had to go home to her cats, I’m stopping up for now half listening to a podcast and surfing. 

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