autism
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I attended the distress brief intervention so I can calm down the troublesome behaviours associated with both types of my PTSD recently. It was helpful so I could stabilise a little better before doing trauma work with my CPN and social worker. I was born autistic too. But people always say “you don’t look autistic”.
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What does betrayal mean to me? Betrayal is spending the young years of your life fighting for your health, wanting nothing more than to survive whilst having a label used against you. Your health becomes at risk at this point because as soon as you have a stigmatising label on your records, it’s always there.
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I have a tally chart. Lists of names of the people who have ever hurt me. Lists of institutions that have ever brought me down. Lists of degrading comments I’ve received. More and more lists. Accused of being narcissistic for being Autistic. Real Autism. But, I couldn’t get help from the system in the same
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Me and my recent ex partner understand each other in ways no one else will. We just were never meant to be together. We knew that quite early on in the relationship. We stopped sleeping together about a year ago, but I knew if I had to leave – because of the 2018 incident with
CPTSD/Disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified 