Who Am I? Printable Resource for Connecting with Your Core Self
Terra Vance
October 3, 2022
Free printable resource to help you connect to your Core Self and begin to separate your identity from your masks.
cptsd
On Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, Codependency, & Identity: How to get out from behind the masks
Terra Vance
October 2, 2022
Being forced to mask as a matter of existence pushes people into codependency and rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) and causes them a lifetime of trauma.
Autistic masking is why I have no friends
Faith Vance
September 21, 2022
“Despite being in a setting where I’m suppose to be my full, authentic self, I still can’t break down those walls and act like myself for fear of judgement.”
Neuroception 101: How the mindbody scans and adapts for safety and danger
Donna "Ara" Munier
August 5, 2021
Neurodivergent occupational therapist, Ara Munir, explains Neuroception, a sensory response to actual or perceived threats in the environment.
Swallowed Whole: Inside an Autistic PTSD Flashback
asiatucoach
July 15, 2021
Asiatu Lawoyin, at age 42, experienced their first PTSD flashback from childhood sexual abuse. Asiatu unpacks the space between the trauma and the flashback through the lens of being Black and autistic.
Review: Sensory Trauma: autism, sensory difference and the daily experience of fear
hyperactivehypatia
May 6, 2021
This qualitative exploration helps us understand how a community of parents and professionals all claiming to be focused on the wellbeing of autistics have come to be at such a divide from autistic advocates themselves, delicately unfolding one of the core phenomenological aspects of the autistic experience that has been hidden in plain sight for so many years.
Is It Trauma or Autism? Or Both?
ladysnessa
July 25, 2019
Being diagnosed with PTSD was one of the most validating things I’ve ever experienced. Not only did it lead me down a path of healing,
Exploring the Intersection of Autism and Trauma
patrickmagpie
April 12, 2019
Editor’s note: this article contains mentions of domestic abuse and alcoholism. Please read at your own discretion. Every time I cry or even laugh, people
