Hi I was just wondering if depression in autistic children is common
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Not sure how common it is in children but it is certainly recognised in adults. As I understand it this commonly arises from difficulties with getting the world to understand one's point of view. If you repeatedly hit a brick wall in dealing with the world, because you find it difficult to understand the world and it fails to understand you, then you eventually get ground down and feel that everything is hopeless. These are components of depression.
I now recognise that, pre-diagnosis, I was verging on being clinically depressed. Now, post-diagnosis and having read around the subject a lot (in a rather circumscribed interest sort of way ;-) ) I can see how differences in thought style etc can lead to great misunderstandings between the ASD sufferer and the NT world. With this understanding I can tackle my communication issues and hopefully not hit so many brick walls.
I hope this makes sense? :-) I think it is likely to apply to children - they are not a different species after all.
Stress is another issue for ASD sufferers but that is another topic.
Not sure how common it is in children but it is certainly recognised in adults. As I understand it this commonly arises from difficulties with getting the world to understand one's point of view. If you repeatedly hit a brick wall in dealing with the world, because you find it difficult to understand the world and it fails to understand you, then you eventually get ground down and feel that everything is hopeless. These are components of depression.
I now recognise that, pre-diagnosis, I was verging on being clinically depressed. Now, post-diagnosis and having read around the subject a lot (in a rather circumscribed interest sort of way ;-) ) I can see how differences in thought style etc can lead to great misunderstandings between the ASD sufferer and the NT world. With this understanding I can tackle my communication issues and hopefully not hit so many brick walls.
I hope this makes sense? :-) I think it is likely to apply to children - they are not a different species after all.
Stress is another issue for ASD sufferers but that is another topic.
