Can trauma from childhood cause autism?

[Rainbow03]

Someone I’ve come across has said that they had been told by a medical person that their child’s autism was caused by being fostered and the trauma.

Ive always thought it was there from birth.

Im asking because I don’t class my childhood as great. I am ND and I also have trauma from a bad marriage. I’m wondering if I was already ND and my parents constantly putting me in situations that overwhelmed me (classed as normal ND people) just caused me to feel worse.

I understand what you mean - I saw your questions earlier in the thread and I thought you might be interested to find out more about trauma. I think that sometimes finding out about these things can help us put our own histories into context, and work out how we were affected and what we can do about it. It is hard to do when we have young children though as our focus is usually on them and there aren't enough hours in the day. You may not find it interesting or helpful but I attached it in case. The video is about trauma not autism incidentally.

@troubletmill thanks, I will definitely have a look later. I definitely feel the need to figure out why I’m the way I am, not necessarily for any medication or therapy but just to find out for me. It’s incredibly hard when you definitely have trauma to pull them apart, maybe I never will.