I’m INCREDIBLY nihilistic. I just don’t see the point in anything. Is this a common trait in autists?

  • osanna@lemmy.vgOP
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    13 days ago

    Honestly, I don’t really even have any special interests anymore because I just don’t see the point of it anymore. I mostly just sit around doing nothing all day except watching the same movies all day, coming on lemmy. I think I’m depressed as well as nihilistic. No idea

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      13 days ago

      I mean for me nihilism is a perspective that I have in general, i.e. there is no purpose to anything really in the grand scheme of things. But when that also means that you can’t find personal joy in anything, I think that becomes a depression thing. I have also been in that position and after a lot of therapy I realised it was because I was so burnt out on doing what people wanted me to because I was ‘supposed’ to rather than actually asking myself what gave me enjoyment if you took everything else out of the equation. It took me a while to realise what I actually personally cared about because I’ve spent so much of my life masking basically.