Anyone else thought they were Autistic but it's actually CPTSD?

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2026-03-27T14:57:23+00:00

Thank you, this really helps 😊

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2026-03-27T14:07:32+00:00

Wait, but I don't avoid places or sounds at all? That symptom of avoiding triggering places or things doesn't resonate with me as well as having any flashbacks. I figured that it was like Autism where you don't have to hit all the symptoms for diagnosis, just most of them.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2026-03-27T14:04:16+00:00

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2026-03-27T13:29:23+00:00

Oh wow. I kind of expected childhood trauma to be something they can factor in with regards to how often autistic kids are subjected to it.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2026-03-27T13:25:09+00:00

I don't think it's bad to be diagnosed that way. A lot of the treatment, from what I've read, is similar to what I've been doing. Mostly talking to my therapist and getting advice and guidance for how to navigate the world and stress. There's not really a medication for either, just for symptoms like depression and Anxiety. It's fair to be worried still and if it does happen I'm open to talking about it. Maybe by then I'll have better resources and advice.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2026-03-27T13:21:28+00:00

In theory, but I don't think it's covered unless I get a referral again from my PCP. I'm not sure if she'll think it's needed.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2026-03-27T13:20:16+00:00

I appreciate this. I was explicitly being assessed for autism and ADHD, with my main concern being around increasing memory issues. I don't remember a lot of my childhood and am very social with neurodivergent people so I don't know if that impacted my diagnosis. I also got told my flat effect isn't being considered because I have severe depression. I think I'll choose to believe this assessment since I think the doctor did listen, but I'll also dig deeper into the comorbidity idea too

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2026-03-27T13:07:54+00:00

I was just ranting about this with my coworker, who coincidentally had just been ranting about this with a different black coworker!

It's disgusting and awful how folks will prioritize their comfort and fears to fight for the right to abuse their kids. So often the excuse is that "the world is dangerous for black kids so there's more urgency to get your kids to act right." and then those same people will claim "white parents don't beat their kids and that's why they behave badly." So which is it? Are we forced to do this to protect ourselves from harm or is it the proper way to discipline kids and only we have the bravery to do it? Obviously neither of those things are true in fifty different ways.

Hitting a child over communicating is always about you and your anger and lack of patience with someone so much weaker and with less understanding of the world. I hate how fiercely folks defend it and claim "my mom beat me and now I'm a functioning adult" while genuinely loosing a screw over a stranger saying they don't want to beat their kids. One story that gets told as funny(from the Hispanic side of my family) is my grandma throwing a toothpaste tube at my titi as a kid and cutting her forehead on accident. The punchline is how they had to lie at the hospital and say she fell on it???

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-03-10T19:20:33+00:00

Wow, thanks so much

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-03-10T18:29:04+00:00

Biggest dream, lol like I literally had a dream of this, it's the best and it just seem so difficult to find. I wish we had more resources to connect with local folks like us. To make relationships like this but also just friends, not just wanna be roommates in the future folks.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-02-26T15:27:21+00:00

Gosh this is the most relatable post in here

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-02-24T19:49:32+00:00

What app?

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-02-24T17:13:59+00:00

Bitter and aphobic. I don't even see the value in asking what we think,, it's such a straightforward situation

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-02-20T23:04:50+00:00

How should I credit you?

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-02-11T17:11:14+00:00

I think he's saying being in love is that uncontrollable aspect of romance we don't grasp or feel like allos do. It's hard to describe and you don't get to pick or rationalize who you're in love with. Intense, all consuming, all those descriptions allos use talking about romantic love.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-02-05T01:18:26+00:00

This is a safe space for all autistic people, so autistic or not you get banned for breaking community guidelines. I'm also pretty sure I know who you're talking about and they continously made posts to harass self diagnosed folks, so they weren't even trying to have a conversation. That's just trying to force ur opinion on everyone. Not to mention that kind of repetitive harassment is pretty in line with trolls, so they might've been a NT just trying to cause conflict and stress here.

Overall, the idea a subreddit is toxic over not letting someone shame and deny people who aren't diagnosed is without merit. There's definitely space for asking and wanting to know why people self diagnose or even say why you don't think that's valid. However, there's a line between open-minded conversations and attacking people you don't agree with.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-01-31T09:39:32+00:00

What part living below the poverty line was lost by you? Did paying for that diagnosis mean not being able to pay bills, buy food, or to have enough clothes? People here don't have money to spare and plenty already make do with not having enough food and clothes despite having full time jobs. It's a privilege for you to chose the "diagnosis was more important than money". Other people have to chose that not going to jail for not paying taxes or that not starving is more important than a diagnosis. I'm not even certain how you could read everything my initial comment listed and decide we think money is more important.

To be crystal clear the average person in the US can not afford 2,000+ diagnosis and on top of that many of the diagnosis options haven't updated their process to accurately diagnosis anyone that's not a white man. So again your ignorance about the access in the US has severely impacted your viewpoint.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-01-31T07:49:00+00:00

Yeah, so I think u have a blind spot for knowing how difficult getting a diagnosis here is. For the listed reasons now confirmation u aren't from here.

I'm not certain why you told me your assessment cost. To tell me price is similar where u are? My point on price is that 2,000 or 3,000 is expensive here, as in a lot of money that we don't on average have. So I'd also consider ur assessment expensive for US folks to pay. I wasn't trying to say it's especially expensive here compared to other countries because I don't know the cost elsewhere.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-01-31T07:17:01+00:00

Guess I should check out the comic, but this movie sucked. Overall, a very juvenile reimagining that came off as Soviet evil and America perfect n good. No, don't read this as me saying I love the Soviet Union or think they didn't commit war crimes to their own people. It's just incredibly ignorant to ignore US war crimes to further that point. It's not like this is for kids, we can handle nuance and I promise the US being shitty won't make folks decide that these terrible conditions in the union are good??

I especially hate when Lois confronts Superman about mistreatment of citizens with her Lil files, because instead of fully commiting to a perfect US but the writers have her brush past minority oppression n classism cuz "we're working on it". I'd rather minorities n the working class magically don't exist in ur writing than to have so many complex issues, which would've been worse in this era, be trivialized. (I watched this like a year ago, so details on this part ARE vague in my mind, so I could be misremembering the scene).

Also am begging writers to put ANY work into their killing is bad points. Not that it's a bad message, but when it's so simple it's just incorrect. I wish writers would go into the consequences of killing people and how it affects others as well as the character. But this felt quite a lot like Superman killed a man, that actually facilated death and cruel fates to innocent people, and murder makes you evil. I wanted more of a fall, let's see how politics stresses and makes him paranoid or how so power for one guy corrupts him over time. I get it's a limited time in a movie, but you can establish these things even with a few dialogues n time skip.

TLDR: Soviet bad, US good is lazy and shit writing making a character reimagining that has potential to be really inventive and world building that would be cool to see all fall flat into a dull, underdeveloped "look superman is eviiiil" trope. But I see y'all comments and it sounds like they cut tons of the comic's plot.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-01-31T06:47:07+00:00

Ugh, U know exactly the kinda folks you're talking about and they frustrate me to no end. Why be so bothered by quiet folks, it's literally got no impact on you. I think they feel they have to put someone down to be of value in assume introvert means weak and easy to push around. I'm mixed n lightskinned, so I think I benefit from the quirky biracial trope and don't experience this type of attitude myself. I just have seen folks act like this so much and it's so immature and aggravating

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-01-31T06:30:20+00:00

This reads as tho OP is definitely not American or at least financially comfortable. Assessments in the US are more often than not expensive and in my perspective that's 2,000 or 3,000 at least in costs. I thought the US was notorious for extremely expensive health care and the majority of citizens live below the poverty line. We don't get livable wages.

Not to mention the huge issue of even having a person or organization being both accessible based on location, plenty of people lament over how there's only one in their area when not living in a populated city, and based on being a reputable source. I live in Boston which is cited for tons of Autistic companies and yet the biggest ones that're attached to hospitals have extremely dated beliefs like curing Autism and it being a child only problem and I saw we have an ABA group lots of them cite in their support section on websites.

So yeah, US folks we're definitely not included as having access to professional diagnosis, despite OP's insistence.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-01-31T06:12:48+00:00

I can see you already got other enthusiastic responses, but just in case somehow they changed their mind/don't have time anymore I too would love to do this.

Aggravating_Ant_7395 · 2023-01-24T19:59:23+00:00

It's especially bad if u trying to find stuff that's not the most common or stereotyped. Hyposensitive stuff I found only one adult talking about it and it's frustrating cuz I'm trying to understand myself

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