Aspy sister [11 F] suffered something traumatic and hasn't communicated verbally in over a week. Is there anything I [24f] can do for her?

Last week she suffered a very bizarre experience. We were shopping in a grocery store. I was putting things into the trunk of the car when she crossed the street to buy ice cream in front of the grocery store.

Out of f** nowhere came two dudes with helmets in a motorcycle who grabbed her and cut a big chunk of her hair with scissors, then drove off into seemingly thin air. Police was called, she cried for like an hour, and it was all around horrible. That's the summarized version.

Everyone is utterly WTF'd about what happened and just feel extremely vulnerable and confused. I mean, they could have just as easily kidnapped in the same amount of time.

My little sis has not uttered a single word since last week. She nods and denies with her head but doesn't speak sentences and doesn't text anyone.

She has Asperger's syndrome, she is extremely shy and sometimes withdraws too much socially, but she does speak normally in the presence of people she feels safe with and she has received counselling in the past, particularly in kindergarten and the first grades.

She's seemingly not scared to go out of the house because we have gone out with her a few times ever since, and she doesn't seem particularly anxious about anything but she's not speaking it's kinda driving my parents and I insane with worries.

Is there anything I can do to help her sort of find her voice again? Is there anything in particualr we should be doing to help her?

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tl;dr: Sister with Asperger's suffered a bizarre crime (random dudes in a motorcycle cut her hair with scissors and sped off). She hasn't spoken a single word ever since. What should I/we do about it?

Submitted June 05, 2020 at 11:05AM by ElegantTree3188 https://ift.tt/3eWDgMk