What has autism got to do with trauma?

Quite a lot, actually.

And not only because of what happens inside the autistic person, but because of what happens around us.

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@KatyElphinstone I've been saying for years now that if the numbers were reversed and autistic people were the majority, a lot of the things we think of as autistic traits would be way less common than you'd think. A lot of of these traits (not even the allistic laundry list of things that make us different) are responses to living in a world that isn't made for us.

@elmiller0330

Exactly this.