De la « recherche d’aide » à « l’expérience du soutien » : perspective d’une communauté neurodivergente sur le soutien aux adultes après une victimisation sexuelle

Titre original en anglais : From ‘Help-Seeking’ to ‘Experiencing Support’: A Neurodivergent Community Perspective on Adult Post-Sexual-Victimisation Support

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Twinley, R. (2026). From ‘Help-Seeking’ to ‘Experiencing Support’: A Neurodivergent Community Perspective on Adult Post-Sexual-Victimisation Support. Neurodiversity, 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/27546330261470608

Date de publication: 01/08/2026 Ajout dans AutiHub: 26/09/2026 Type: Article Langue de l’article: Anglais
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La recherche d’aide est souvent considérée comme la principale voie par laquelle les victimes/survivant·e·s de victimisation sexuelle accèdent au soutien. Pourtant, ce cadrage présuppose des capacités de reconnaissance de ce qui s’est passé comme un préjudice, d’initiation du contact, d’expression et de navigation dans les systèmes qui ne reflètent pas les réalités vécues de nombreuses victimes/survivant·e·s neurodivergent·e·s. Dans cet article Community Perspectives, je propose une compréhension alternative : l’expérience du soutien. M’appuyant sur mon expérience personnelle en tant que personne présentant de multiples neurodivergences, sur mon expérience professionnelle en tant qu’ergothérapeute et praticien·ne en neurodéveloppement, ainsi que sur les perspectives des communautés neurodivergentes et de victimes/survivant·e·s, j’explore la manière dont le soutien est ressenti à travers des conditions relationnelles, environnementales, sensorielles et contextuelles, plutôt qu’à travers des systèmes traditionnels de recherche d’aide dépendants de la divulgation. J’introduis le Modèle conceptuel de l’expérience du soutien, une carte d’idées non hiérarchique qui illustre ces conditions et remet en question la linéarité des cadres traditionnels, neurotypiques, de recherche d’aide, intégrés dans des systèmes qui ne prennent pas en compte les victimes/survivant·e·s neurodivergent·e·s. Le modèle s’appuie sur la littérature existante tout en plaçant au centre les connaissances communautaires et les façons neurodivergentes de traiter l’information. Ce recadrage invite les praticien·ne·s, les services et les communautés à reconsidérer la manière dont le soutien est proposé, en déplaçant la responsabilité des victimes/survivant·e·s vers la création d’environnements dans lesquels le soutien peut être vécu en toute sécurité.

Help-seeking is often positioned as the primary pathway through which victim/survivors of sexual victimisation access support. Yet, this framing assumes capacities for recognition of what happened as harm, initiation of contact, articulation, and system navigation that do not reflect the lived realities of many neurodivergent victims/survivors. In this Community Perspectives paper, I offer an alternative understanding: experiencing support. Drawing on personal experience as a multiply neurodivergent person, professional experience as an occupational therapist and a neurodevelopmental practitioner, and insights from neurodivergent and victim/survivor communities, I explore how support is felt through relational, environmental, sensory and contextual conditions rather than through traditional disclosure-dependent help-seeking systems. I introduce the Conceptual Model of Experiencing Support, a non-hierarchical idea map that illustrates these conditions and challenges of the linearity of traditional, neurotypical help-seeking frameworks that are embedded in systems that miss neurodivergent victim/survivors. The model is grounded in existing literature whilst centring community knowledge and neurodivergent ways of processing information. This reframing invites practitioners, services and communities to reconsider how support is offered, shifting responsibility away from victim/survivors and towards the creation of environments in which support can be safely experienced.

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