The autism spectrum is really the trauma spectrum.
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Replying to @nosilverv
one of the books i was reading listed autism as one of the few psychological things it thought was probably not due to trauma, forget which book though sensory processing issues are both an autism thing and a c-ptsd thing tho
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @nosilverv
I was just talking to someone about how I feel like I have 'two types of anxiety' - there's sensory-overload panic attacks, which feel extremely different from anxiety that seems to have emotional valence/narrative/reason.
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With sensory overload attacks, I have a lot of the symptoms of panic attacks (don't touch me, get away, lots of crying, rocking back and forth), but there's a part of my brain that's chilling out in the corner, surveying my body, going 'huh, this reaction is pretty interesting"
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With emotional/narrative anxiety, there is no brain part chilling in the corner; every part feels affected or involved in some way, even the parts that are working to control or understand the anxiety.
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