The Differences Between Autistic Kids and Neurotypical Kids

Autistic kids are experiencing anxiety at a rate at least twice what we see in neurotypical kids and probably much more than that. It is hugely stressful for autistic kids to be navigating a world built by and for neurotypicals so that's really where I focus. Fear consolidates power where it already was okay because fear shuts down a lot of our brain it causes us to go to the dark side. We don't know what an untraumatized autistic person looks like, says OT Sarah Selvadji Hernandez. The DSM is looking at autistic trauma behaviors mm-hmm yesI think that's absolutely right.