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Originally Posted by Michanne
It isnt the word abnormal the way you are using it that troubles me. It is "brain not developing normally" that I am having trouble with. If you have PTSD it is unlikely it has anything to do with how your brain developed when you were young, before the trauma even happened. It is also the assumption that we know the problem is due an abnormal brain. We don't. It just happens the area they choose to concentrate their research in.
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I wouldn't say my PTSD was a result of my brain not developing normally...however I'd say my being on the autism spectrum is, as it involves atypical neurology thus causing the brain to develop differently than someone who is not on the spectrum which most people aren't making it 'abnormal'. But as I mentioned before that's not a mental illness, mental illnesses I don't think are the result of the brain not developing normally...though depending on the age one develops a mental illness it can effect brain development like having depression and anxiety at a young age when the brain is doing quite a lot of developing, but its not caused by brain development.