Recent research points to a clear conclusion: autistic people are thinking about, and dying by, suicide at high rates - Conner CM, Ionadi A, Mazefsky CA.

Rates of death by suicide among teens and adults have increased more than 30% since 2000 in the United States, and an estimated 800,000 people die from suicide worldwide each year.1,2 Even more people experience suicidal thoughts and/or make suicide att...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news