"Where a typical individual experiences the sharing of useful knowledge as a basic social reflex, the allistic subject appears to require an elaborate ritual before any information exchange can occur." 😂
https://dev.to/raphink/return-to-the-planet-of-the-autistics-447g
The hardest thing about autism hasn't been the autism.
What's been much more difficult are the sensory sensitivities, and the attitudes of people around me toward my differences, which created a lot of social anxiety. 1/2
A couple of researchers are going to be doing a study "that would attempt to investigate the potential causal relationship between autism and cPTSD".
For information regarding this study, and explanations about who is welcome to participate, one of the researchers, Nicole Filippone, has made a Facebook post detailing everything. (You don't need a Facebook account to see it).
If you're interested and want to sign up to be notified about when the study will begin, you can go here: https://www.nicolefilipponeauthor.com/my-links
I have signed up myself, as I suspect I am autistic and definitely have cPTSD. Hopefully it will be insightful!
Please boost this so the study can get as many participants as possible!!
Salut, j'ai passé un dépistage TSA avec un psychologue y'a 2 semaines et j'aimerais bien savoir si c'est normal :
Je n'ai pas passé de questionnaire à proprement parler pourtant dans mon compte-rendu j'ai des résultats de questionnaire et je comprends pas trop comment ils ont été rempli... À partir de mon anamnèse seulement ?
Le psychologue ne m'a pas dépisté de TSA du coup mais alexithymie + anxio-dépressive (je suis actuellement en dépression, duh, je l'ai dit en arrivant) et je suis pas satisfaite du résultat parce que y'a notamment une anxiété sociale très sévère que je vois pas d'où il la tire en sachant que celle là je l'ai taclée ces dernières années et que j'ai vraiment beaucoup moins d'anxiété sociale qu'avant. Mais aussi je trouve pas que tous mes symptômes puissent être expliqués par anxiété + alexithymie.
C'est le seul psychologue qui fait des dépistages TSA adulte et qui était disponible que j'ai trouvé et j'y ai laissé 350€ et je sais pas trop quoi en penser.
Merci pour vos retours 💙
"The DSM defines autism by its observable symptoms: persistent deficits in social communication, restricted & repetitive behaviors. It's a checklist of what a clinician can see in a room, or what a patient can report about themselves. It describes the shadow, not the object."
https://dev.to/raphink/defining-autism-the-shadow-and-the-object-3ca7
In addition to #PTSD, my mostly useless first therapist suggested mild #autism. I am starting to suspect he might have had a point.
But also my younger son is basically me but more so (minus the PTSD so far) and I just realized many of the common indicators are much more present there.
And one difference would be that one of us has a lifetime of experience in what I have always thought of as "pretending to human" and the other hasn't had to (much, yet).
“What I’m sketching here certainly isn’t definitive. It’s a model I’m workshopping, built from themes I’ve seen surface over and over, personally, clinically, and in community.
It most closely reflects late-identified and self-recognizing neurodivergent adults, especially those who spent years masking or passing as neurotypical.
It isn’t meant to speak for all Autistic people, particularly those with higher support needs, co-occurring intellectual disability, or whose identity was shaped by early diagnosis or institutional settings.“
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/the-neurodivergent-identity-arc/
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