Bich Nguyen 
"When members of the U.S. women's cross-country ski team walked into a news conference in a packed room at the start of the Olympics, each of them wore a mask. Jessie Diggins, the team's top athlete, said the same rules apply if she's inside with her husband, who's staying not with Diggins at the Olympics, but with family."
Mieli Luukinen#autistic #masking is something often talked about. In short, it's an umbrella term for social survival strategies where one hides their autistic tendencies. It certainly is a thing and has consequences. However, I think there also is an opposite strategy, anti-masking if you will, where for survival one leans into the #stereotypes and performs the role of a socially awkward autistic weirdo in an exaggerated manner.
A little search didn't find anything about this. Does anyone in the #community share my experience?
Auld Ma TwəggA rarely discussed perk of continuing to wear a mask on trains is how much more often I get an entire seat to myself, even in peak hour.
Mijei 
6 meses *sin* camuflar. TODO lo que he aprendido
"Hace 6 meses inicié un proceso personal para intentar desenmascarar. O, al menos, para intentar no camuflar en todos y cada uno de los aspectos de mi vida. No podemos decir que lo haya logrado porque, sinceramente, tampoco sé si tiene sentido pasar de todo a nada, pero por lo menos he aprendido algunas cosas por el camino. Y me gustaría compartirlas por si te pueden ayudar".
https://autiblog.substack.com/p/6-meses-sin-camuflar-todo-lo-que
bnkywuvSomething I drew in protest of my emotionally abusive "mothers" hatred of my autistic based face making. #weird #faces #autism #mask #bnkywuv #wendi #wendibnkywuv #silly #masking
chrisThis year's #flu is no joke. Not sure what mix of infections I have had, I'm guessing it might be a combo of a bad allergic reaction to some dust kicked up during yard work, then a flu, then a cough, one after the other. Either that or this particular virus just has a few stages of progression. Day 14 of it today. I may have caught it riding the train, or at work, or from my wife. She hasn't been quite as affected as me.
I received my flu #vaccine this year and generally kick anything after a week or so. I should have been more diligent about #masking in public. This is really something.
I worry that the #SuperBowl, being held tomorrow not far from here, will be a #superspreader event.
I received my flu #vaccine this year and generally kick anything after a week or so. I should have been more diligent about #masking in public. This is really something.
I worry that the #SuperBowl, being held tomorrow not far from here, will be a #superspreader event.
Tom KindlonAustralian Winter Olympic athletes wearing an N95 mask as they boarded the bus to head to the Opening Ceremony
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Ellis C.A. Arcwolf (Author)It's a fun game of pretend. I have a COVID, I'm disabled, I have asthma, I am homeless.
But I get to keep applying for jobs while I pretend I'm perfectly OK. And the second work starts, I'll be working full-time with COVID, as if I'm perfectly OK.
If I want to survive, the only way to do so is to act like I'm perfectly OK.
I deserve an Oscar.
#COVID19 #COVID #Disability #Disabled #Homelessness #Unsheltered #JobSearch #Hiring #Pittsburgh #LateStageCapitalism #Masking #Neurodivergent #MutualAid #SurvivalMode #TheGreatPretend #WorkingWhileSick #InvisibleSufferer #Spoonie
P.S. Pittsburgh sucks. I wish I'd never come here. I wish I'd never believed in myself.
Gay CurmudgeonFriends at Doolittle's Dinosaur Land in DuBois, several years back. We hope to go again this summer! #dinosaur #Dinosaurs #science #doolittlesdinosaurland #doolittles #doolittlesdinosaurs #summer #drawing #magicmakers #watercolorpainting #watercolor #art #artwork #arting #artist #covid_19 #covid #masking #friendship
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