Does anyone here have AS and PTSD?

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Hello everyone this is my first time over in this forum:) I just wanted to ask if anyone has ptsd as well as AS? I am pretty sure I have PTSD and have been questioning whether I am an aspie as well.
Any input would be appreciated and feel free to pm me if you need someone to talk to.

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I don't know if I have PTSD, but I have a trauma.
Since nearly two years now.

It's getting better since a fiew months, but I still have it.
Every day...!

I am an HFA woman with PTSD (complex). Its not fun to deal with, esp when you have so many other co-morbid conditions.

Very possible. Two types of PTSD that I am aware of.

Yeah...and it sucks.

yes.

I couldn't say for sure that I have PTSD, but I certainly think I might after a very troubling childhood. Also I'm diagnoses with AS.

I thought about it very long now what I exactly have.

I allready wrote about it in another thread.

I developed traumatic symptoms after staying in a locked up section for two weeks against my will in a psychiatric hospital. I have claustrophobia and noone believed me. But I continued staying ambulant in that hospital for another two years after that.
In this time I showed clearly traumatic symptoms, like emotional outbursts when somethings remindet me on the trauma, irritability, fear and so on. I also showed highly ambivalent feelings towards the people who work there. I didn't show those symptoms in normal life and all those symptoms startet with the trauma.

Now, not being there anymore since one week. I have far less fear and my emotional meltdowns and so on are nearly gone. But I still have some fear left towards that psychiatric hospital. But I'm very glad, that I don't have to go there anymore, not even ambulant.

I also toled my friends about my fear and so on and noone understood why I kept staying there ambulant afterwards.

I think now, afterwards, that I have/had some form of Stockholm-Syndrome with PTSD-symptoms.
I can't explaim me my behaviour any better.

I'm not like that in normal life, the behaviour was clearly attachet to the trauma and got better after leaving there.
Now just some fear is left and I still think about the trauma a lot. Most other symptoms are gone.

As complicated as this sounds, I suspect that I have AS, and have PTSD as a result of being raised by two parents who also have AS. I'm terrified of my mother. I become physically nauseous and get a stomach ache just thinking about her. I have constant sleep problems because I cannot stop my negative thought loops that are in direct reference to the psychological torment that she put me through. I constantly have nightmares about her behavior, and I have irrational fears and paranoia's in my day to day life. For example, someone was dropping off a package at my door, and I came very close to picking up my son and hiding him in a closet because I believed that this delivery man was actually a hit-man that my mother hired to kill me.

Ugh, I'm actually on my way to speak to my GP about all of this in a little while. It's impossible to try to sort this mess out on my own!

They might be comorbit but you should take in consideration some other things too, like: behaviour during early years, when the traumatic events occured, did the traumatic events changed something about you or were you different in some way and that attracted the unhappy events to occur?

I'm sure many people confuse Aspergers with PTSD.

I have AS and PTSD, along with several other disorders.

Yes.

Yep, C-PTSD here, among other things.

I think I have PTSD but it hasn't been diagnosed yet. I was stuck in an abusive group home for about 7 months and exposed to a lot of trauma there. I haven't been able to find proper help yet.

How can I tell if I have PTSD?
I had a really neglectful and often psychologically abusive mother (dad was ok). I have flashbacks to her screaming at family members. I also have a flashback from when I was 5 or 6- I tried to hurt someone. Would I have given myself PTSD? Is that possible?