Heather Cook🖖Autistic CoachEven though I’ve been unmasking, and sorting out my internalized ableism and internalized capitalism, and other unhealthy cultural messaging, for around eight years now, I still routinely find new aspects to unpack. 1/2
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Not sure why Reuters is hell-bent on #doxxing the artist known as #Banksy and violating their #privacy 😠:
“In Search Of Banksy” (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381175
#Art #Vandalism #Anarchy #Unmasking #Art #StencilArt #StreetArt #Graffiti
A lot of what I had to unlearn when unmasking wasn't so much my own beliefs about myself, it was other people's concepts of what I "should" or "shouldn't" be that I had internalized over the years and accepted as true. 1/2
#AutisticMasking #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodiversity #unmasking
Hacker NewsWho is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
#HackerNews #SatoshiNakamoto #Bitcoin #Mystery #Unmasking #CryptoJourney #Blockchain
Kyiv Independent Daily HeadlinesTuesday, April 7, 2026
Investigation: Unmasking the anonymous hosts of 'Russians with Attitude,' a pro-war podcast popular with US far-right -- Novorossiysk port on fire again as Ukrainian strike campaign on Russian oil export infrastructure continues -- As Russian attacks on Ukraine's railways intensify, passenger trains now targets for drones -- Serbia sees no Ukraine trace in alleged gas sabotage plot after Hungary hints at Kyiv's involvement ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-7-2026/
I want to float an idea.
There's a version of being sensitive to the other person, of being aware of them and attuned to them, that isn't masking. 1/3
#AutisticMasking #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodiversity #unmasking
People sometimes ask me what to say when they disclose their autism, like there's a script that'll guarantee a good reaction. But there isn't.
There's no perfect combination of words that'll make someone respond with acceptance and support no matter who they are or what they're carrying. 1/2
#AutisticMasking #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodiversity #AuDHD #unmasking
Disclosing you're autistic isn't just sharing information. You're engaging with a completely different whole person and their whole world.
They've got their own relationship with the word 'autism.' Their own history. Their own idea of who they thought you were — and you may be quietly rewriting that. 1/2
#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Understanding #Neurodiversity #unmasking
Masking isn't the same thing as being sensitive to other people. And being sensitive to other people isn't the same thing as masking.
There's a version of attunement — of being aware of someone, reading the room, adjusting how you show up — that isn't masking. It's just... being in relationship with another person.
Unmasking doesn't mean being insensitive. Those aren't the only options.
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I absolutely despise clothes shopping. There are so many sensory things that are wrong with it. The fluorescent lights, the changing clothes, I barely can stand changing clothes twice a day in my own home, nevermind lots of clothes changes in a row where most of those clothes that I put on are going to have sensory issues in one way or another.
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