Could someone please advise or reccomend any published theories/papers on whether misunderstanding or lack of supoort could traumatise/create PTSD in an autistic child please. Thanks
Could someone please advise or reccomend any published theories/papers on whether misunderstanding or lack of supoort could traumatise/create PTSD in an autistic child please. Thanks
Just to walk through the points:
Trauma is caused from exposure to traumatising events.
Exposure is a matter of a Lack of Protection.
Most Neuro-Normative individuals will have received the "codes" in order to form proper Defence Mechanisms (some help us mature and navigate society fluidly, all of them can cause problems if out of control). In this respect, autistic individuals may not have basic defence mechanisms to navigate potentially traumatic events.
Misunderstanding can be a form of being excluded or a form of disconnexion and isolation. It can be a type of marginalisation and I have a feeling Misunderstanding is the very basis for a Lack of Support in the context of someone responsible for or caring for or the authority over (unless this authority is a psychopath/sociopath or sadist, for instance.) Erich Fromm has a good deal to say about Isolation and community. As do many sociologists and it's affects.
While there are articles - or commentary pieces on this such as: https://neuroclastic.com/why-adult-aspies-arent-being-diagnosed-a-human-rights-crisis/ You may need several papers to create the link for how:
1. A lack of defence mechanisms makes autistics more vulnerable, thus requiring more protection from those responsible for them. Misunderstanding how the autistic child is easily more traumatised would produce a lack of support.
2. Sociological affect from the human need for inclusion & connexion. How misunderstanding creates an emotional and psychological isolation and is traumatising in itself. But to compound the issue, If I'm asking for help in a different language and you cannot understand me, then you most likely won't assist, leaving me unprotected and to my own devices. This can lead to feeling isolated, abandoned, betrayed and not just subjected to traumatising events.
This is a big topic involving a good deal of elements. Is there anything specific you're interested in?
Thankou so much. Point 1 of your explanation is really what I was trying to get at. Is there any further reading I can do on this please?
Assuming you're asking about a lack of defence mechanisms...
I'll have a think. To understand how a neuro-normative individual (NT, Neurotic in clinical studies) creates these, you can do a bit of searching for Lacan an Freud's theories on defence mechanisms. Lacan's "Symbolic Order" is good to look into to simply understand. These two fell very short of understanding Autistics but they are amazing if we look at the Autistic experience in relation or opposition to the Neurotic experience. I've spent 6 years reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, which goes on to suggest the process of Oedipalisation into society happens through a type of social encoding (like programming a computer). There are 2 books plus further reading and it's how I came to recognise I had an autistic brain.
Jung also discovered an 'Archetype' who wasn't easily Oedipalised if you're interested in peeling through his archetypes.
What all of these individuals have in common is understanding and agreeing on how defence mechanisms are encoded into the NTs sub(merged) conscious. And it appears to impact the Temporal Lobe- regions or areas in the brian Autistic individuals consistently have a problem with.
Lacan pointed out somewhere that the Autsitic had a recognisable issue with creating defence mechanisms. Connect this to understanding problems Autistics have with Language and Meaning, and it would make sense that the world is overwhelming and only other autistic individuals can relate due to human "cognitive bias". Thus, the misconception of the refrigerator mother in psychoanalytic mis-thinking. All science has limitations but we are much further now!
Defence mechanisms will help us dull our senses. But instead, we experience sensory overload Emotionally, Psychologically and Physiologically. This is an interesting article:
Assuming you're asking about a lack of defence mechanisms...
I'll have a think. To understand how a neuro-normative individual (NT, Neurotic in clinical studies) creates these, you can do a bit of searching for Lacan an Freud's theories on defence mechanisms. Lacan's "Symbolic Order" is good to look into to simply understand. These two fell very short of understanding Autistics but they are amazing if we look at the Autistic experience in relation or opposition to the Neurotic experience. I've spent 6 years reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, which goes on to suggest the process of Oedipalisation into society happens through a type of social encoding (like programming a computer). There are 2 books plus further reading and it's how I came to recognise I had an autistic brain.
Jung also discovered an 'Archetype' who wasn't easily Oedipalised if you're interested in peeling through his archetypes.
What all of these individuals have in common is understanding and agreeing on how defence mechanisms are encoded into the NTs sub(merged) conscious. And it appears to impact the Temporal Lobe- regions or areas in the brian Autistic individuals consistently have a problem with.
Lacan pointed out somewhere that the Autsitic had a recognisable issue with creating defence mechanisms. Connect this to understanding problems Autistics have with Language and Meaning, and it would make sense that the world is overwhelming and only other autistic individuals can relate due to human "cognitive bias". Thus, the misconception of the refrigerator mother in psychoanalytic mis-thinking. All science has limitations but we are much further now!
Defence mechanisms will help us dull our senses. But instead, we experience sensory overload Emotionally, Psychologically and Physiologically. This is an interesting article:
Misunderstanding any system - thought, formula, ordering of nature, law of physics, etc. will create an undesirable result.
If we misunderstand the physics of flight, we cannot get off the ground. If we misdiagnose a variable within an equation, we might set course for Jupiter and overshoot the moon. If we cannot work out the structures of authority, we'll misrepresent matters of accountability and so on. There is a working order to natural things and those natural things have no regard for us, but we must respect them to survive and then thrive.
I would apply this basic concept to help reason through the impact.