Resources on autism, disability, and child sexual abuse and exploitation

(image description: close-up photo of driftwood with shadows on it and a piece of grass. text reads AU with an exponent of Tr, meant to indicate how trauma impacts autism exponentially) Content Warning: To help me back-up my points with other sources, I am citing sources that medicalize and pathologize autism and posttraumatic stress injuries. … Continue reading Resources on autism, disability, and child sexual abuse and exploitation

Autism and Traumatic Stress – Gaps in Research

I want to begin this journey by saying that I have wanted to formally curate research and organize my own thoughts about autism, stress, and trauma for quite some time. Today I found the abstract highlighted below and decided the time was now. We need to be talking about autism and traumatic stress. We need … Continue reading Autism and Traumatic Stress – Gaps in Research