“Not Everyone Was My Friend”: Sexual Assault & An Autistic Life - s02e01

<p class="md-end-block md-p" style="line-height:inherit;margin-top:1rem;margin-bottom:1.5em;white-space:pre-wrap;text-indent:2em;color:#1f0909;font-family:'PT Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;">Let’s kick off Season 2 of #AutisticAF Out Loud podcast… by taking a risk.</p> <p class="md-end-block md-p" style="line-height:inherit;margin-top:1rem;margin-bottom:1.5em;white-space:pre-wrap;text-indent:2em;color:#1f0909;font-family:'PT Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;">There’s not much research on sexual abuse of autistic children… much less adults.</p> <p class="md-end-block md-p" style="line-height:inherit;margin-top:1rem;margin-bottom:1.5em;white-space:pre-wrap;text-indent:2em;color:#1f0909;font-family:'PT Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;">Maybe funding sources aren’t ready… yet… to stop trying to cure us. And study our lives.</p> <p class="md-end-block md-p" style="line-height:inherit;margin-top:1rem;margin-bottom:1.5em;white-space:pre-wrap;text-indent:2em;color:#1f0909;font-family:'PT Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;">So here’s my story. Someone’s gotta start talking…</p> <p class="md-end-block md-p" style="line-height:inherit;margin-top:1rem;margin-bottom:1.5em;white-space:pre-wrap;text-indent:2em;color:#1f0909;font-family:'PT Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;">I’ve gotta warn you it’s rough. </p> <p class="md-end-block md-p" style="line-height:inherit;margin-top:1rem;margin-bottom:1.5em;white-space:pre-wrap;text-indent:2em;color:#1f0909;font-