Post #3419628
2026-06-26 20:30 UTC
The Deficit-Trauma Loop ➰
1. Autistic trait exists.
2. The trait is socially inconvenient or misunderstood.
3. The person is corrected, punished, excluded, shamed, or unsupported.
4. Trauma, anxiety, masking, burnout, or co-occurring difficulties develop.
5. The resulting distress is read as autism alone.
6. The diagnosis/deficit story is reinforced.
7. More pressure is applied to reduce the autistic trait.
8. The person is further harmed (PTSD etc.).
9. They exhibit increasingly more distress and less ‘functioning’.
10. Conclusion: “Autism is simply a disorder.”
#Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD
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@graymattergrcltd@infosec.exchange 2026-06-27 09:56
@KatyElphinstone@mas.to after 60 years, I’m now having silent heart attacks. My husband started asking about symptoms. I explained that, yes, I was having symptoms but I just ignore them. That’s what I’ve learned to do after being ignored, accused of “faking it” for attention (when the last thing I want as an autistic is attention), musdiagnosed, medicated, and told that CBT would sort me out. I filter out body signals to the point that dizziness, nausea, crushing fatigue, pain in my jaw, and other signals of a heart attack are just a Tuesday.