I might ask you the same question. I know you haven’t considered informing yourself well enough to be familiar with the project or the subject material in general, and I don’t know you so I’m not in a position to understand your statement in context. I do encourage you to inform yourself, and after you have had a few weeks to educate yourself and practice applying the information, perhaps we can reconvene.

Have you researched and educated yourself by now?

Are you able to combine deep trauma therapy , narrative therapy and active imagination into some semblance of context?

This is masterful, humane intricate therapy for perhaps some other individual, and perhaps not for you, or for those to which you extend understanding and compassion.

Are you a hobbyist in advanced trauma and autism therapy, or an amateur, or a professional, or an expert? Do you have substantial direct first or second-hand lived experience?

Are you an edge-compute ethnologist and researcher?

If I ask you to contribute a self-authored ten-page document detailing cutting edge research regarding biopsychosocio-spiritual assessment and communication, as it intersects with deep and chronic trauma experienced by those ‘on the autism spectrum’, are you a contributor, or are you a tourist?

Are you comfortable speaking from lived experience, with discernment, about your own mental health; diagnosed or undiagnosed?

Are you accurately informed, or accurately uninformed?

There’s no such thing as a stupid question. This doesn’t mean that I have the time, focus or energy to indulge in responding.

I understand that you are doing your best. Thank you for trying, and for having the courage to confront your own awareness.