Heather Cook🖖Autistic CoachIf you masked your way through life well enough that you didn’t get the label of autistic – maybe you were labeled other things: quirky, different, weird, etc., but you didn’t get autistic – you masked well enough that you have learned a lot of being able to pick up signals from other people. 1/4
olenaIn Hiding, a short story by Wilmar H. Shiras, written in 1948, is such a good depiction of autistic experience, of that necessity to mask, of being accused of lying about being able to do something just because the accusers can’t conceive the fact that you can do something they can’t, of existing within your solitude taking joy in books, learning and creating
If you also read that short story, do you also feel it relatable?
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If you also read that short story, do you also feel it relatable?
@autistics
#autism
#AuDHD
#autisticMasking
At times in my life when the external requirements on me have conflicted with my internal needs or reality, the dissonance between those two has proved immense, painful, energy draining, and lonely. 1/2
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DigitalCortex.ioMasking isn't just exhausting. It's cortisol dysregulation, autoimmune risk, identity loss, and physical collapse. The research is clear. The body pays the price.
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Gardiner BryantAutistic Masking saved my life
I won't apologize for playing the unconscious game that we're designed to play.
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Autistic Masking saved my life
Autistic Masking saved my life
Gardiner BryantAutistic Masking saved my life
> I won't apologize for playing the unconscious game that we're designed to play.
#Lore #Neurodivergent #Personal #Autism #Self-improvement #AutisticMasking #Synesthesia #BryantReview
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I did people-pleasing and #AutisticMasking disguised as "customer service" until I had nothing left. 1/3
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
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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
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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
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