Any ND x CPTSD folks? How does trauma impact neurodiversity and vice versa?

As long as you have many traits of autism, do you need to distinguish between the 2? If you have many traits, especially some traits that don’t happen with CPTSD people, you’re probably autistic. Knowing what trait is in what disorder is pointless imo. You should treat the symptoms, not the disorder if it’s because of that.

But honestly, I’m autistic, ADHD, bipolar, AvPD, OCD, DPD, GAD, and CPTSD so it would be impossible to tell which trait is what. Hell, maybe that trait is from all of the things.

Basically, see if you have traits of autism that CPTSD doesn’t have. If so, you’re probably right about being autistic. After that, it doesn’t really matter what trait is which

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