What causes Autistic suffering?

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View this email in your browser Why do Autistic people experience such negative outcomes? This was the question that myself and Tanya Adkin set out to answer with our blog series "Creating Autistic Suffering". This series has been immensely popular, below are the top five installments. Please do share these on social media to help more people see them! EMERGENTDIVERGENCE.COM Creating Autistic suffering: In the beginning there was trauma - Emergent Divergence This article was co-authored between David Gray-Hammond and Tanya Adkin Trigger Warning: Some of the research quoted in this article contains person-first language or references to aspergers. While the authors do not agree with the use of such language, we must access the research and statistics available to us. We are also aware that some EMERGENTDIVERGENCE.COM Creating Autistic Suffering: Neuronormativity in mental health treatment - Emergent Divergence This article was co-authored between David Gray-Hammond and Tanya Adkin Trigger Warning: This article contains mentions of systemic mistreatment in the mental health setting, traumatisation, references to pathologizing theories and language, mention of cultural ignorance, and discussion of mental health conditions inlcuding cluster B diagnosis and misdiagnosis. It seems to be common knowledge in the EMERGENTDIVERGENCE.COM Creating Autistic Suffering: Fabricated or Induced Illness, state sanctioned bullying - Emergent Divergence This article was co-authored by David Gray-Hammond and Tanya Adkin Trigger Warning: This article contains strong language and discussions of fabricated or induced illness, ableism, discrimination, bigotry, child abuse, medical abuse, systemic abuse, institutionalised bullying. Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) is defined by a set of "alerting signs", written in guidance produced by the Royal EMERGENTDIVERGENCE.COM Creating Autistic Suffering: What is Atypical Burnout? - Emergent Divergence This article was co-authored by Tanya Adkin and David Gray-Hammond The literature around Autistic burnout is in it's infancy with regards to academic papers, most of what exists comes from lived experience and blogs written by Autistic people themselves. The first academic paper on Autistic burnout was written by Raymaker et al (2020). This paper EMERGENTDIVERGENCE.COM Creating Autistic Suffering: The AuDHD Burnout to Psychosis Cycle- A deeper look - Emergent Divergence This article was co-authored by Tanya Adkin and David Gray-Hammond Monotropism is a theory of autism. It is used interchangeably as a theory and also a trait that describes a style of attention. It suggests that Autistic people tend to have singular but highly detailed tunnels of attention, as opposed to spreading their attentional resources Copyright (C) 2024 Emergent Divergence. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe