Dr. Megan Anna Neff

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I have

encountered countless women and non binary people for whom

their therapist told them it was trauma, not neurodivergence.

And so I think that's one of the places the field at large is really missing neurodivergent people.

especially women and genderqueer people and people of color, where the default is often, well, this is trauma.

It's not either or, it's often both, frankly, but the trauma overshadows the neurodivergence.

I think I understand where some clinicians might be coming from with that comment.

One framework that's been really helpful for me comes from Kelly Mailer, who talks about atypical trauma.

So things like sensory trauma, social-based trauma.

There's also another really interesting article that looks out specifically why autistic people are more prone to develop PTSD.

after a traumatic experience, even when they don't meet criteria A.

I realize I'm getting really clinical, but tr criteria A are kind of the classic.

These are the classic things that we have a s as a society have deemed big T trauma.

Autistic people are more prone to develop PTSD even when they don't meet criteria.

And there's a lot of reasons for that.

One of that being, you know, our more sensitive nervous system, the way we encode things on a sensory level, some of our cognitive style.

So I could see why a clinician might be like, Well, that doesn't sound like classic trauma because often

we do have atypical trauma and atypical trauma responses.

I guess the two thoughts that popped into my head right away.

One has to do with kind of access to our inner world.

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