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Podcast: Autism and Parenting
Episode: Generational Love
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Childhood trauma is an education on love. Whatever your parents do to you, you will call love. To the abused child, this feels like anything but love, but that is precisely the point. The traumatized child grows to give or receive trauma, for that is what they know of love.The beaten child does not like being hit. Hence I do not say, ‘like’. The child chooses what they like; the parent chooses what is understood as love, for the parent’s behavior toward the child comprises the child’s experience of love. Hence the traumatized child comes to belie...