A number of links newly have been added on the topic of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Perhaps best known as an affliction besetting combat veterans and survivors of sexual abuse, PTSD is an often-overlooked fact of life for too many of us who live on the autism spectrum. This can be because we process sensory input atypically, causing many stimuli that our more typically-developing peers would barely notice to seem noxious, even threatening, to our selves. This can be also because of how we have been treated: “treated” in the sense of social regard, or “treated” in the therapeutic sense.
Harmful therapy: a phrase that in a more perfect world would be mere oxymoron, but in present reality is another far too common fact of life on the autism spectrum. Could this be because we healthcare professionals (another “we” to which I belong) focus excessively upon curing disorder, forgetting that the individual human being must be healed?
