One of the big indicators for autism is a lack of intuition for reading/emitting appropriate social cues, as well as a lack of age-appropriate friends. But for both autistics and NTs, social cues are learned from other people, and an N upbringing teaches a child that the N's behavior is an appropriate way to behave, that your own/other people's intuition are all wrong because it doesn't match up to the N's perception, and tends to isolate the kid from having friends and peers that serve as a balancing force against the N's machinations.
The traits of autism do tend to resemble the traits of PTSD, with or without trauma ( link ), and are frequently comorbid because autistics are very prone to being abused. The main obvious difference is that autism is something one is born with, while PTSD is something that is acquired.
I really don't want to bring back the debunked "refrigerator mother" misconception, but if the symptoms are so similar, how do we know what's an inherent neurological difference and what's due to an N sticking grubby hands in our brains?
Submitted January 27, 2017 at 08:18AM by trappedinprivetdrive http://ift.tt/2jaoUPQ raisedbynarcissists
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