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 →

Beginning Thoughts on Routines, Agency, and Interoception

(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 … Continue reading Beginning Thoughts on Routines, Agency, and Interoception →

Beginning to Connect the Dots — Complex Trauma and Autism

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. Please read with caution and take good care of yourselves. (I will try to add this content warning to all of my posts, but I might miss them sometimes! Please bear … Continue reading Beginning to Connect the Dots — Complex Trauma and Autism →

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 →