Morbid Unicorn

Some autistic children have curiosity and intense fascination with morbid topics (murder, death, gore), manifesting in dark, imaginative play. Interestingly, these children are often very sensitive, anxious, and delicate. The neurotypical culture stigmatizes this type of play, and autistic children may have received negative feedback for expressing and playing this way. This is group counselling explicitly focusing on safely exploring, processing, and witnessing this morbid fascination. Therapeutically, these imaginations are the fertile ground on which autistic collective trauma can be processed. Children will also be practicing pre-scene negotiation, personal boundaries, self-advocacy, and post-scene harvesting.