#like yeah abuse and trauma can be extra traumatizing for autistic individuals because their autism is often interpreted as something else

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not my sister thinking autism is a trauma response like ptsd or something 😐

#i get why someone might think that at some point maybe? especially if an autistic person has also experienced traumatizing events #but they are seperate things!! and she's heard Actual autistic people in her life refer to it as a genetic neurodivergency #not a fucking mentall illness #yet she still bold faced says she thinks autistic symptoms my brother experienced were Explicitly Because he was abused #like yeah abuse and trauma can be extra traumatizing for autistic individuals because their autism is often interpreted as something else #and they can be even further punished for it #but they would still be fucking autistic if none of that shit happened either #idk why it's so fucking frustrating to hear #honestly it's probably literally just cause she's so confident about it like. she knows best due to her years of her own personal therapy #and like that's valid for Her experiences but that doesn't mean she gets to speak over literal actual autistic people ? #about their own experiences ? #like sorry her likely having undiagnosed adhd doesn't give her a free pass to equate herself as a talksperson for all neurodivergencies #idk. i am way too angry about this actually dbjsjs i will blame it on sleep deprivation <3 #i guess it's just. the assumption that autism wouldn't exist in a perfect world u know? #that it's a result of trauma and not a Neutral way to exist #idk. i'm too stress compromised to be venting abt this lol #vent cw #j.txt