“Life-changing”: adults receiving an autism prognosis after BPD (mis)prognosis

Many autistic adults face extra and vital limitations to prognosis, with detrimental impacts. Autistic adults who had been undiagnosed in childhood have reported a spread of destructive experiences related to their missed prognosis, together with social isolation, diminished self-understanding, and insufficient psychological healthcare (Huang Y. et al, 2020; Leedham A. et al, 2020). Nonetheless, for…

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Diagnostic overshadowing in PTSD and autism: trauma in ASD

Nearly all of folks will, in some unspecified time in the future, expertise a traumatic occasion, however solely 3.9-5.6% will develop a post-traumatic stress dysfunction, or PTSD (WHO, 2024). In autistic folks, PTSD could also be particularly pronounced by maladaptive coping and traumatic recollections. Autistic people are likely to exhibit excessive avoidance coping, attentional bias…

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