this makes a ton of sense and just makes the idea of exposure therapy for sensory issues even more horrific
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"an autistic individual finds it more difficult to read safety cues, and as a result they interpret more cues as dangerous or threatening."
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i should probably run this poll again, huh
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how often do you feel "safe"?
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how often do you feel "safe" *outside* of dangerous situations?
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"and this is actually where depression comes from. in most cases, it's suppressed anger and suppressed sympathetic energy that hasn't been able to be processed."
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i bet sob squad + trauma twitter are seeing this like "wait did you.... did you miss this memo?"
i'm only *just* starting to grasp that people can be traumatized by things that don't traumatize most people
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yeah for sure, “being traumatic” is not an inherent property of a type of experience! it’s about what is too fast, too confusing, too hard to digest for a given person, and that can vary dramatically
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wowzaa
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they fuckn rock so hard. the dude im thinking of rn has a kickass eyepatch he got cuz he kept running back into a building that was on fire and full of explosives to save his friends. he couldn't even tell his story when I first met him now he's a fucking healer himself
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whoaaaa amazing
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