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I ended up down a rabbit hole reading about his daughter who was born ridiculously premature (700g!!), grew up as a girl with autism in an era that didn't understand that at all, and struggled with poor vision which didn't let her pursue a career in geology... eventually took her own life at age 40 from the torment of her life. :'(
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"Nobody said she's got Asperger's or she's got autism. (They said) she's just got behavior things," he said.But after suffering for so long, he never imagined she would actually kill herself.
"It's like the boy who cried wolf. Somebody who says, 'I can't stand it. The helicopters are making too much noise and the gardeners and the blowers are making too much noise and if they don't stop I'm going to kill myself,' " he said, his voice cracking. "And you hear that enough and you know it's never gonna happen and then one day she just goes and kills herself."