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What was the straw that broke the camels back?

Autismman

Hey, I wanted to know peoples personal stories of their Autism emerging and what caused the sudden on set of the autism awareness within yourselves? I think I split when my mum died and I found her, I couldn’t cope with that and I’ve tried to burry it impossibly. 

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  • in reply to Autismman

    Of everything I have read, there are two lists of symptoms published by Mind which I find the most helpful in drawing an understanding between PTSD versus cPTSD.  This is the list for cPTSD (and it also contains the signpost link to the PTSD page):

    https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-and-complex-ptsd/complex-ptsd/

    The distinction which helps me to distinguish my understanding between PTSD and cPTSD, is by the potential associating of:

    "emotional flashbacks" of cPTSD (where people have intense feelings that they originally felt during the original trauma and they might react to events in the present as if they are causing these feelings, without realising that they are having a flashback),

    versus

    "vivid flashbacks" of PTSD (where people can be feeling like the trauma is happening right now),

    - is how I try to think about the difference between the two situations which people may experience.

  • in reply to Mr T

    That last bit, I can relate, I didn’t know why I stuck about, figured if I left I was the problem even though I didn’t feel like I was but self worth being so low, it’s very confusing sometimes. Thank you for sharing with me, that’s very kind of you 

  • in reply to Autismman

    It is different for many people.

    What I have found is:

    low self worth

    certain thoughts or situations can press play on a movie of past events and bring all the feelings you had at that time flooding back. It can sounds, smells or locations.

    I often find myself disassociating in certain situations.

    All I will say is that it can be very debilitating.

    Unlike PTSD which is mainly associated with a single traumatic event cPTSD (complex) is a large number of small traumatic events over a long period. So a continual build up of past traumas that are stuck unprocessed.

    In my case my childhood and a long-term abusive relationship, which was exasperated by my undiagnosed autism