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The mean emotion scores were all higher in the ASD forum, compared to Self Harm.

This could be partly due to moderators on the Self Harm forum removing triggering content. Also, more posts in the ASD forum were from family members, while the majority of posts in the Self Harm forum were by self-harmers themselves.

In the self-harm support group, more posts were descriptive so as not to be triggering and therefore emotions were harder to infer.

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The demographics of the Autism support group were inferred from the discussion topics on Autism support forum (e.g., parents talking about their autistic children who have been refused Personal Independence Payment, young autistic adults talking about their first job offers). They appear to be parents and young adults of mixed gender.

The demographics of the self-harm support group were inferred from handles of thread creators. 67.5% were considered female, and 20% male, while 12.5% held gender-neutral handles.  The analysis incorporated text from both victims of self-harm, and those offering support. No other demographics could be inferred according to anonymity.

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We collected our data from 180 posts on each of Austism (National Autistic Society) and Self-harm (Psychforums - Cutting and self-injury forum) forums.

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"I had an appointment with my psychiatrist that left me feeling anxious, stupid, sad and angry”

“Really appreciate your response, someone cares” Transgender

“Never in my wildest imagination did I think I could do something like this”

“Severe anger issues”

“Out of control” John Doe

“Arms are going, face is contorted. sometimes even screaming” John Doe

“I just feel so hopeless”

“I am also just really mad at myself and hate myself”

“I felt hurt, sad, lost, and emotionally distressed. I’m crying.”

"I'd rather die i want to be healthy but iid rather die than be a pathetic piece of adrenaline soaked meat" John Doe

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“She started becoming violent, unsettled, wouldn't sleep, destructive, withdrawn etc etc” Jane Doe

“I am terrified” Jane Doe

“we live in fear of an 11 year old girl” John Doe

“There has been thousands of pounds worth of damage created during meltdowns over the last few years” Jane Done

“He keeps attacking younger children, kicks, hurtful comments or an elbow, today he was trying to tie children up with rope” Jane Doe