A Personal Perspective: The majority of autistic women describe having some history of sexual abuse. We should begin looking at how we can stop this alarming trend.
) and autism before in more scientific and clinical terms but seeing this play out in reality and understanding the research are two different things. Research shows that 66% of autistic adults have PTSD and 91% of autistic females meet diagnostic criteria for PTSD. I can explain this in clinical terms, but it misses how profound it feels when you sit in a room with autistic adults talking about their trauma history.
All of the autistic women in the room had been sexually abused as girls. Since we didn’t understand what normal was, we didn’t understand the depth of thethat was being committed against us. We all knew we hated it. We all knew we didn’t like it, but as autistic children, we are forced to do many things we hate. We are forced to eat food we hate. We are forced to go places that are too bright, too loud, too uncomfortable and we are told we are being difficult if we complain.
So if you sit in a room with autistic women, you will find that almost all of us have been victims of multiple sex crimes. This trend drifts into adulthood When autistic adult women begin seeking out adult romantic partners they become easy targets again. Since we are unable to read social cues, we don’t see many of the red flags neurotypical people see. We often don’t have groups of female friends to guide us.
Haruvi-Lamdan, Nirit, Horesh, Shani Zohar, Kraus, Meital, & Golan, Ofer . Autism spectrum disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder: An unexplored co-occurence of conditions. Autism 24 . 884-898
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