I Really Like That

I don't know how, again, how early it cut me off, but I like going through those assessments with my clients, 'cause it gives me a lot of really good behavioural observations as they're going through the questions and gives them an opportunity like to ask questions or to kind of make comments or expand on their response.

So I really like that, but. You know, to your question, Josh, there is a lot of. Overlap between autism and trauma. And so that is one thing when I have somebody come into my office and they want to be assessed for autism, and I know that they also have, if there's like a known history of trauma or abuse, then I am trying really hard. To try to differentiate between what might have bike a result, like what traits and characteristics and behaviours and thoughts and feelings and symptoms are a result of the traumatic event that occurred, versus what are traits and characteristics that are kind of more inherently common within tautism. And that can be rerreallyallenging ut, butwould say like the biggest thing for me is I'm really.

Looking at that developmental piece of things, because what we know about autism is that it is a neurotype. It's the way that your brain is wired. And so it's something that you, if you're autistic, then you were born. With it a,nd so aypically when it comes to trauma, those are events and experiences that happen at some point in your life. Unfortunately, sometimes those traumatic experiences can happen like really early in life.

So that can be extra hard. And I've had that experience before, too, where I've had people. Thawasre may be experiencing pretty horrific and perpetual abuse from the time that they were very, very young, you know, so that can be tricky when there's abuse that is happening within those crucial developmental periods as well.