There's not much you can do.
I think your sympathy for him is a great thing to start with.
It seems to me he's too 'far gone' to have a normal life, but it's good to hear that he's in a class with other children. Isolating him would only make things worse.
My experience is that for people who have autism, social contact is hard, but very, very useful. I think the best you can do is be very patient with him and involve him in as much as possible. It might cause a lot of trouble, but I assure you that it will help him make social contact, if only a bit.

Bipolar here (although I'm not sure whether on the mild or heavy side, never been diagnosed)

Basically, it's just these huge mood swings out of nowhere! And usually when I look back at it a few days later, It feels kinda foolish :laughing:.

But I do pretty much keep it to myself than to spread it about like a 'disease' to everyone around. 'Never sympathize with a depressive' - what they need is some sort of mind-altering treatment that would snap them out of their current routine.

Not sure about that, really.
I think in some cases an approach like that could kill people.

Kill them? :eek: Yikes, never heard of that.

By 'mind-altering', I don't necessarily mean drugs. Just the way you talk and behave could get them to change their focus and stop those repetitive thought patters. This is usually out of genuine necessity to help really. I've never found sympathizing and reasoning to work that well. Usually it's when they feel better and 'cheer up' is when they change their minds and make better decisions.

I meant that it's not always bad to sympathize ;).

The problem is it doesn't last. I've read many books, seen many movies, talked to many people and realized how I should be thinking or behaving, but it doesn't last. Yeah you make better decisions when you're on the 'up', but then the down comes again (without fail) and you're back to making dumb decisions and feeling like life is shit.

i don't have any diagnosed disorders (yet) but have many MANY character flaws, everybody that knows me knows that, and even people who don't know probably do

I remember reading you were bi-polar?

is not officially disgnosed

That doesn't really sound like Bipolar disorder to me - I am diagnosed.

The moodswings don't just come out of nowhere, really. It's not like you'll be happy one second then depressed an hour later, then angry five minutes after that - the moodswings are a lot more gradual.

I'm diagnosed with rapid cycling, and that just means I have a higher than average amount of episodes per year..