Healing Reveals The Truth Of Our Memories

This article deals with a personal account of sexual violence as well as data on sexual violence against Autistics.

An article from the Autism Research Institute shares that Autistic youth are three to four times more likely than non-autistic youth to experience sexual victimization, and between 40% and 50% of autistic adults report experiences of sexual abuse during childhood.

A 2022 study revealed evidence to support that nine out of ten Autistic women have experienced sexual violence - compared to 30% of women in the general population.

I have been struggling to write an article for today.

I’ve been thinking about various topics relevant to myself and my readers, and started and stopped a dozen drafts. I couldn’t find the fire. The thing is, I’ve known for a couple of weeks what I needed to write about today, but I kept pushing it aside. I wanted to ‘keep things lighter’ amidst the heartache and rage so many of us are feeling right now as we continue to witness atrocities. But my mindbody chose the topic a fortnight ago, and I’ve just been making my way to this moment masking as a writer who has something else to say than to talk about an experience of sexual violence. As it is, this is the only thing I can share with you today. And if it will harm you to engage with it, I hope you can set the boundary to stop doing so now.