Autism and severe early trauma
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Over the last year I've had quite a few referrals for autism assessment with people who have experienced severe trauma (e.g. multiple experiences of CSA, extreme neglect, multiple foster care placements) in their early years.It's a really good thing that more people are coming forward to address the impacts of these experiences, and that we are getting better at considering autism in more complex presentations.
Yet I've also seen how, for people at the beginning of their trauma recovery journey, raising the possibility of autism can add another layer of confusion and uncertainty in a person already struggling with fragmentation and incoherence in their sense of self.
I think there is a gap in terms of how we can understand who to refer for assessment and who we might hold the formulation in mind for now.
I'd love to share what I've learned through this work, and through long-term therapy with people with such histories who have been diagnosed with autism.
This PD is to help scaffold the clinical decision making of those working with autistic victim survivors of complex early trauma. It will be focused largely on answering the question: when do I refer someone for an autism assessment, and when is it better to wait?
Date
Monday 9 November 2026 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC+10)Location
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Autism and severe early trauma
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