I'm starting to think that 90% of the trauma my friends suffer from comes down to "I was an autistic kid" in a world that wanted them to be ANYTHING but what they are.
When you account for autism, and understand that it makes you end up a Non-standard human being, it's almost a Normal thing.
Instead, we were all Tormented, just so we "Would Grow Up Normal"
I've always hated this Expectation of Normality. It always felt like a Conspiracy.
@Motodrachen reading between the lines (and sometimes, right on the surface) of Autism Diagnostic Criteria reveals it to be looking for/at *traumogenic symptoms*, not underlying mindform