5/20/2023 0 Comments Complex trauma pete walker![]() ![]() Perhaps, also in part as a side-effect of (1.), the psychiatric categorisation isn’t really neat – what I mean is, perhaps the mental health professionals who get to define / describe the spectrum medically mostly get to see traumatised autistic people (I mean, who is more likely to see a mental health professional?) and what’s described commonly as autism (perhaps even in the neurodiversity community) is actually a mix of the two – it’s actually some autism + some C-PTSD entwined, because it’s rare to just see the former without the latter (and describe it).I think especially if an autistic person receives or seeks a diagnosis – I imagine the people who have the additional C-PTSD issues (even unknowingly) are more likely to fall into both categories, while the relatively untraumatised ones perhaps just deal with life and never even label or diagnose themselves. A lot of autistic people have C-PTSD, so that the two are distinct but frequently seen together.While I won’t document this in detail in this post, I’ve thought about this before and thought of two obvious explanations: ![]() ![]() Still reading Pete Walker’s guidebook on recovering from Complex PTSD, I can’t escape the same eery sensation I had when reading Heller & LaPierre’s Healing Developmental Trauma – too many items on the C-PTSD (basically equivalent to developmental trauma) checklist are far too similar to too many of the typical autism spectrum “symptoms” (if we take them from a pathologising list) / traits / behaviours / coping strategies / perhaps experiences. ![]()
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