feeli0 wrote:
Excellent idea for a research project, combined with the under-diagnosis of female ASD. Could it be that in many cases the PTSD or cPTSD masks the ASD?
Just thinking of myself here and others I have met in this most excellent forum. For me the huge penny drop occurred with my diagnosis. The one thing that had always challenged me, my self esteem, my ability to recover from the multiple traumas I suffered - was 'why does this keep happening to me?' Therapists could repeatedly tell me it wasn't my fault, but I am an intelligent person and putting facts and patterns together is my thing - and almost like Charlie Brown, Lucy and the football - I fell into the same trap over and over again in my early and vulnerable teens. At the ripe old age of 65 I now know, and really deep down believe that it was not my fault. What clinched it was the understanding of this condition. I cannot read people's intentions. You don't know what you don't know and just as a colour blind person might learn to 'fake it' by following the patterns of non-colour blind people's speech to 'recognise' colours, I have faked the social necessities to get by in life.
#wetoo
Yes, the same for me. When the penny dropped a year ago, everything suddenly made sense. It was a huge relief.
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01 Oct 2018, 3:58 pm
