Labels and diagnoses have their use, but they also have some significant downsides. What if there were an alternative?
I tried for so long to be normal. And it drove me nuts and burned me out multiple times. It’s not only an unreachable goal, bit it turns out it’s not really the goal that I thought it was, after all.
People react to different amounts of sensory input, but even when it’s only a little, it’s not made up.
Here are 20 examples of masking in real life. Do you do any of these things? If you resonate with several of them, you might be masking.
Once you discover your autism, you may realize just how severed the connection to yourself is, but it is possible to get in touch with yourself; to learn to trust your instincts better.
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