As someone who has specialized in CPTSD, I've had a general understanding around the overlap between CPTSD and ASD, but I want to become more of an expert on the ASD side, especially understanding what it might look like for those who are high masking given there seems to be more and more women being late diagnosed with Autism (who may also have CPTSD but may also have been misdiagnosed additionally with diagnoses like BPD, NPD, ADHD, etc.)

For all of you who are already further along in understanding ASD, please feel free to share your thoughts and resources, and please be patient with me as I continue to share what I am learning. Feel free to educate and inform, correct and provide compassion as you see fit.

This is a personal, as well as professional journey I am on too so I truly hope my journey and your experiences and stories, will help all of us understand our brains and lives in more meaningful ways so we can also receive the most helpful treatments and resources.

I have been on so many websites, forums, etc and there are mixed opinions on this issue of hsps being a profile of ASD, but in listening to a range of Autistic voices, again and again, I heard their advocacy as this being a profile that deserves to be acknowledged.

Today's video includes data from D. Price's "Unmasking Autism", Dr. Joey (@nd_psych) on Tik Tok, Elaine Aron's website (https://hsperson), spectrumnews.org and:

Bargiela, S., Steward, R. & Mandy, W. (2016). The Experiences of Latediagnosed Women with Autism Spectrum Conditions: An Investigation of the Female Autism Phenotype. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 46, 3281–3294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s1080301628...

FletcherWatson, S., & Bird, G. (2020). Autism and empathy: What are the real links? Autism, 24(1), 3–6. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361319883506

Miller, D., Rees, J., Pearson, A. (2021). “Masking Is Life”: Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults. Autism in Adulthood 3(4), 330–338. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2020.0083

Milton, E. M. (2012). On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem’. Disability & Society, 27(6), 883–887. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012...

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