*Trigger warning: mentions self harm* We are exhausted! The kind of exhausted where we cannot thermoregulate, our body so hot that we think we are running a fever, later so cold that we wonder if we will ever be able to warm up. The kind of exhausted where we feel sick and dizzy, hands shaking, … Continue reading Exhausted
Category: Executive functioning
A key parallel between experiences of autism and trauma
The trouble with time
Time can be a bit of an enigma for us, from understanding the numbers to our perception of time, knowing where we are in time and how time passes. These difficulties can be accounted for by living with DID and by our autism. Experiences associated with DID, for example, derealisation, flashbacks and loosing time, all … Continue reading The trouble with time
Executive Functioning
When I hear the word executive functioning ‘I see my frontal lobes in a fancy leather chair which is slowly spinning round to face me. If my frontal lobes had hands they would be tapping consecutive fingertips as if plotting their next dastardly disruption to my day’
Memories
I have been thinking a lot about memories, specifically how the autistic brain experiences remembering and the similarities to flashbacks and somatic re-experiencing. There is a propensity for the autistic brain to experience events as traumatic. This can be due to sensory sensitivities, previous sensitisation from a history of bullying and social confusion and a … Continue reading Memories