Jaime A. Heidel - The Articulate Autistic

Communicate more effectively with the autistic people in your life

Category: Trauma & PTSD

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Better Communication / Common Misconceptions / Parent & Child Communication / Trauma & PTSD

Why Autistic People May Not Understand Your Reaction to Their Behavior

This is not rare. Many autistic adults can look back on childhood and remember versions of this happening again and again. We would be quietly minding our own business, and then an adult would seem to appear out of nowhere already irritated, already blaming, already assuming we knew the social rule we had broken.

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Better Communication / Common Misconceptions / Dating & Relationships / Parent & Child Communication / Trauma & PTSD

Your Autistic Loved One Doesn’t Know What You’re Reacting To, and It’s Causing Trauma

When people who have little experience with mental illness hear the term ‘complex PTSD’, their minds automatically conjure images of sustained physical abuse or one major traumatic life event that permanently altered one’s nervous...