So people often say that autism is like having a different operating system. Suppose you are a Mac in an all Windows environment and the required software only runs on Windows. What you do is install an emulator program. Thread …
2. This makes you look like a windows computer and you can run the software and talk to the other computers. But having that big invisible emulator program running constantly in the background uses a lot of resources so you work much slower and less efficiently than you would if the software ran on your native OS. This is #Masking
@Cedar this is a brilliant analogy. Only mac is far to homegenous - I think neurodivergent people all run their own heavily customized Linux district
@Irongeek I did consider that but I figure the Apple Windows analogy is something more people will relate to. 😀