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That's not what I think of when I hear cPTSD. I think of abusive parents and then beyond that I don't have any further information about the nature of the abuse. I don't think of sexual abuse necessarily or automatically.
There are other signs I know to look for for sexual abuse. cPTSD is one of them, but it's really any long term childhood abuse so it's not the distinguishing feature. The sexual abuse features would be captured in other disorders/symptoms.
Again, I would just ask them to use the the Trauma symptoms Investigation Form in Autistic Spectrum Disorders if you think it would help in getting medication, support you needed, or to be on disability.
If you don't think the diagnosis-happy community has anything to offer you in return, including a sense of stability of where you are and what happened to you, yeah, avoid it.
But I got diagnosed when not being diagnosed wasn't working and I was just getting gaslit and minimized about what would heal my trauma and things were clearly still very much escalating for me due to the gross incompetence of minimization of the trauma there which evading diagnosis and listening to gaslighters had caused. Only then did I get more access to larger systems of support I needed, that did in fact at least slightly mitigate a lot of the issues.
Comment by Natural_Professor809 at 30/01/2024 at 20:13 UTC
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I'm hearing what you say. I'll ask in the next assessment to be administered a Trauma symptoms Investigation Form in Autistic Spectrum Disorders. I first need my autism spectrum disorder diagnosis to be further validated (it's both private and public health diagnosis now but I need it to be recognised by my national healthcare support system and from there I can move further or else I risk other incompetent clinicians will start again with the whole "oh no, you're too smart and you talk, you can't be autistic, my autistic nephew screams all the time banging his head in a wall and can't even go to the bathroom by himself!")