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Sep 11, 2014, 06:07 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Ontario Land
Posts: 3,592
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Originally Posted by Leah123
(P.S. Also, therapists are notoriously quick to consider sexual abuse because it's often not disclosed, so they're certainly more mindful of the possibility than anyone else in the general population. Joe schmo doesn't think like your high school counselor dealing with troubled girls all day long. When one is hypervigilant about abuse and protecting children, they can suspect it everywhere and extra careful to consider it.)
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Sometimes they are too quick to conclude abuse took place. They did it to me. It really messed me up and made me doubt everything I knew about myself and my family. It was traumatic.
Some of my ASD symptoms were mistaken for signs of abuse such as my sensory issues (E.g. trouble with direct skin contact) and my asexual tendencies. All the anger I had due to severe bullying also contributed to the appearance of a youth in turmoil with a trauma history. The well intending therapists were convinced I was sexually abused, but I never was. If they did an ASD assessment in 1994 this wouldn't have happened.
What other signs do therapists look for?
I know two people who were abused. They never displayed any signs that suggested it. I found out because they told me.
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