Is It Autism or Trauma?: How to Tell the Difference Between Who You Are and What You Survived

You've spent time in therapy — maybe years of it — and something still doesn't add up. The labels never quite fit. The strategies never quite land. What if the reason is that no one could tell whether you were dealing with who you are , or what you survived ? Based on the book by Muriel Gabriela Harrington , this podcast lives in the place almost no one talks about: the overlap between autism and trauma. From the outside, they can look nearly identical — the same avoidance, the same hypervigilance, the same shutdowns, the same shaky sense of self. But they come from completely different places, and telling them apart changes everything about what actually helps. Episode by episode, we work through the real differences — two nervous systems, two stories — using clear explanations and contrasting real-world cases, so you can start to recognize your own experience with honesty and self-compassion. Warm, plain-spoken, and neurodivergent-affirm