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’ve figured out that you’re masking, and want to do so less, how do you unmask? Here’s my philosophy.
You’ve heard of autistic masking? Here’s an intro on what it is, what it’s not, and some of the side effects.
I find it a lot easier to do things when I know why they matter, and then I don’t complain about them (nearly as much).
Social skills can be learned. Yes, even by autistic people. But they aren’t often taught to us autistics in the way that autistics learn them.
Non-speaking autism is often misunderstood as an intellectual disability. I think something very different is going on.
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