For autism awareness month, I want to talk about the rates of suicide in autistic individuals because the numbers are alarming, and I don’t think it’s talked about NEARLY enough...

Based on rates from a recent meta-analysis, 20% of autistic children and teens reported suicidal ideation in the past year, and 10% reported suicide attempts... which is DOUBLE the reports for non-autistic children and teens. This is CHILDREN & TEENS.

But the comparisons for adults are even more alarming. 42% of autistic adults reported suicidal ideation, and 18% reported attempts. But nonautistic adults only reported rates of 4.8% for suicidal ideation and 0.7% for suicidal attempts.

This means that autistic adults are TWENTY FIVE TIMES more likely to make a suicide attempt than non-autistic adults.

My question is... what exactly is being done about this? Because from where I’m sitting, it doesn’t look like a whole lot. 

Telling us you want to “cure” us does literally nothing to help us. WHERE IS THE HELP? Where is the help? 

That’s what I want to know.