As we prepare to enter a new year, I wanted to bring to light something among the community that unfortunately a lot of people have experienced especially over the past two years with the pandemic…suicide amongst neurodiverse individuals.
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As many of you know, anyone who is neurodiverse struggles a lot with the world around them. We have a tendency to come up with escape thoughts that we think are temporary, but in reality, they are permanent. These are known as suicidal thoughts.
For a lot of neurodiverse people, these thoughts come when we are depressed, severely overstimulated, overloaded, etc. In a way, suicidal thoughts are sometimes our way of communicating that we need whatever is around us to stop immediately.
I should know, because I have had plenty of suicidal thoughts in the past. There have been a lot of moments where I wanted to just “take the easy way out” of something. But I always end up getting talked out of it in the end.
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Robin Williams (1951-2014)
In recent years, whenever I have suicidal thoughts, I would always say that I should do what Robin Williams did. Now as many of you know, Robin Williams took his own life in 2014 because he had been battling severe depression.
A lot of neurodiverse individuals are the same boat as people like Robin Williams because we either have no one else to turn to or we feel like we don’t want to live anymore. Sometimes, a lot of us don’t want to face reality as it changes around us, but we have to because whatever we don’t want to face ends up being beneficial.
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The truth of the matter is that a life is the greatest gift we could ever have amongst us, and we sometimes need to have a cold splash of reality to the truth of what would happen had we never been born in the first place. One movie I would strongly recommend to anyone is the 1946 film “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
In this film, Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey, a man who considers throwing away his life when he ends up down on his luck. It is not till the intervention of a guardian angel named Clarence does he understand how important his life is to others around him and what would have happened had he not been born.
The truth of the matter is that we can all leave an impact on the world around us. There can be both a positive impact and also a negative impact we can leave. If we commit suicide, then we have left a negative impact that overlooks any positive impact we have left on people.
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But it doesn’t matter whatever position we hold or the kind of life we want to live, neurodivergent people make as much of an impact as neurotypical people and it’s up to others around them to help them when they are feeling down and out on their luck.
If you are reading this blog and are feeling suicidal, I urge you to go and seek help immediately because remember that suicide is a permanent solution to temporary problems. Don’t believe me? Then listen to this quote:
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Catch you all later!!
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