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marshall
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16 May 2013, 11:32 am

Tyri0n wrote:
The link I included mentioned gaps between receptive and expressive language.

What is this?

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I still have trouble hearing in loud clubs. Which can be an advantage if it forces girls to get closer and talk into your ear. :lol:

lol. I'm pretty much asexual so I don't really have reason to go to bars and clubs to pick up girls. I was dragged to them in graduate school with a group of acquaintances. It's the group socialization I struggle at more than one-on-one. I can't hear anything when someone across the table is making a joke, yet everyone else laughs as if they heard it. :shrug: I feel like I need to fake that I heard it just to fit in, but what fun is that. :(



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31 Dec 2015, 2:12 pm

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I am not sure one can accurately characterize feral children as autistic. Being isolated in childhood from other humans does cause severe developmental issues as I think neurological development depends on having other people around.

I think that there should be something about distinguishing complex PTSD from autism, given they have so much overlap.

I found these two pdfs - they're a two-part paper on complex PTSD and implications for people with autism spectrum disorders

Part I: http://www.oadd.org/docs/41008_JoDD_16- ... 0_king.pdf

Part II: http://www.oadd.org/docs/41009_JoDD_17- ... ulnier.pdf


good articles :D



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31 Dec 2015, 2:20 pm

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I was actually diagnosed as having a form of PTSD.

I think that if my shrink had known that I liked to line up my toys, freaked out around loud noises, was picky about who I would talk to, had eye contact issues, and (according to my mother) skipped the separation anxiety phase of development BEFORE I experienced any major trauma (as far as I know), that diagnosis would not have been made. At the time, I knew next to nothing about the high-functioning end of the spectrum and didn't think to mention any of that.

Where trauma and autistic traits co-exist, how do you even know for sure what is the source of this or that symptom? What is anxiety because of sensory integration problems vs. because of lingering sensory issues related to the trauma? I don't think anyone can say for sure, maybe not even the people living through the symptoms. I am not sure to what degree such a distinction really matters.


Yep, like you, diagnosed with both Asperger's and C-PTSD. Probably will never know one way or the other if I am autistic or not. They are just too damn similar!! Down to the motor coordination/sensory integration and disturbances in the capacity for empathy!!

My mother says one of my early autistic symptoms was extreme separation anxiety, which predated the trauma (BPD at a young age, hahaha). Is this really not correct?


Ik this user is gone, but for anyone who reads this....ASD and C-PTSD are NOT so similar that a clinician has a hard time telling them apart.......full stop!

This belief on Tyri0n's part is NOT a reflection of the true state of Clinical Psych. and is only a reflection of his personal confusion.

The record needed to be set straight.



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01 Jan 2016, 2:42 am

Only you would know if you've been traumatized. And even if so, tough cookies!

Sure, I have PTSD issues over various things, and an ASD SD was more than obvious. But consequential, no! Belief is everything. The proof is in the pudding. Never-say-die attitude = results, and results are everything!

All I've learned is that: a life(long) quest for self-categorization = fruitless; a.k.a. hipster nonsense.

My two cents...


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