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#autisticMasking

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David Gray-Hammond<p>We mask to feel safe, not to hide who we are.</p><p>We hide who we are, because who we are is not safe in our current world.</p><p>If we want Autistic people to not mask so much, we need them to feel safe.</p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodiversity</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>Some of us learn as small babies that there’s no point in crying because we won’t be answered, so we go quiet. </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticBurnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticBurnout</span></a></p>
Diligent Circle 丸<p>Hot take:</p><p>Masking mostly only exists for the sake of neurotypicals' comfort, and letting them go about life without putting in any work interacting with neurodivergent people, allowing them to in the back of their minds basically pretend we don't exist.</p><p>It's a special accommodation for the majority.</p><p>Neurotypicals get all this accommodation, expect all this accommodation, for our mere existence, and we get none for our actual difficulties and disabilities. This is bad; it ought to be the other way around.</p><p>🕷️</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Masking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masking</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ActuallyADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyADHD</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergent</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>Instead of, “I can’t unmask because no one will accept me,” what if it’s, “I must unmask because people already aren’t accepting this masked me?”</p><p>What if it’s, “I need to find out who will accept the real me.”</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unmasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmasking</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>Since I was largely following social scripts that I had learned before I knew I was Autistic, and would say things like, “I’m fine” when I didn’t mean it, or that I liked someone’s artwork when I really didn’t think it was that good: </p><p>I assumed that everyone else was being completely fake at all times, especially when they said that they liked me or valued me in any way.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unmasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmasking</span></a></p>
Extra_Special_Carbon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://paquita.masto.host/@Cattz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Cattz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Ohhhhhhhhh! </p><p>As it dawns on me that this has nothing to do with <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/autisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autisticMasking</span></a></p>
Cattz :autism:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a> <a href="https://paquita.masto.host/tags/autisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autisticMasking</span></a> <br>I got permission from the author to bring this amazing comic about masking here.</p><p>If you like their work and want to help them you can become a Patron:<br><a href="https://www.patreon.com/c/autiebiographical" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">patreon.com/c/autiebiographica</span><span class="invisible">l</span></a><br>Or check out their shop:<br><a href="https://www.autiebiographical.com/category/all-products" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">autiebiographical.com/category</span><span class="invisible">/all-products</span></a></p><p>And I got their book (Xmas gift)!</p>
Mx Verda<p>wtf is the name of that autistic group on here? <br>And was it a profile bot thing or a hashtag? </p><p>It's a group thing you tag (somehow!) that then @s the rest of the people following it? </p><p>(Do I count as an <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AutisticElder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticElder</span></a> if I'm over 30 years old?)</p><p>bwahahahah tis ActuallyAutistic, of both!</p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/autisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AuHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuHD</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ADHDbrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHDbrain</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AskMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TechHelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechHelp</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Hashtag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hashtag</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/HashtagSpam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HashtagSpam</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ThankYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThankYou</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Nerds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nerds</span></a></p>
olena<p>You know how sometimes you wouldn’t have noticed that someone is drunk if they didn’t try to behave ‘sober’ so hard? </p><p>To me, most embarrassing and awkward things in my life occurred when I tried to ‘act normal’ hardest, without having enough time/resources to do proper research about the environment and energy to fully stick to the chosen mask</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/autisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autisticMasking</span></a> <br><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a><br><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span></p>
Will 🏳️‍🌈<p>Today, I found the negative side of masking.</p><p>I have an interesting intersection of fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, spine issues, and being autistic. A few days ago, I was trying to make my husband happy, and worked in the backyard to cut back some plants. I knew it would be painful to my back and in general, and would have a ME/CFS crash the next day, but pushed through nonetheless.</p><p>Today my husband said I wasn’t in pain. But I *was*, I was just masking because I was trying to present normal, if but for a moment. Unfortunately, now he thinks my chief issue is of a mental nature, which is completely not the case.</p><p>Anyone relate?</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Fibromyalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fibromyalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ChronicPain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChronicPain</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a></p>
Tarren (They/Them)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@Lydie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Lydie</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ohai.social/@pitrouillesque" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pitrouillesque</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/@theautisticcoach" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>theautisticcoach</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> Like, if they only knew the price of that apparent high-functioning-ness. They don't see the times, after days on end of seeming high function, when we just crash and struggle to motivate for even the things we care deepest about, because we've spent all our energy on doing all the things we're expected to...<br>*** Additional Hashtags Here ***<br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/neurodiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodiverse</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/neurodivergence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergence</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>If you try unmasking, and it goes well, and you get a wave of anxiety afterwards: that is an entirely normal reaction.</p><p>It’s not a signal that anything went wrong. It’s a protective strategy that some of our brains are very accustomed to doing.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anxiety</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unmasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmasking</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>For those of us who mask, it is often some version of oppressing ourselves, of believing that we were wrong to be the way we were. And at some point that was a belief that was helpful to us.</p><p>But it’s also a lie, and you don’t have to live with that forever.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unmasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmasking</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>Masking is a completely reasonable response to an unreasonable situation.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unmasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmasking</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>Masking is incredibly draining, it takes a lot of work to keep up that front, to keep up those camouflaging and the compensating strategies that we use.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unmasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmasking</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>Some of us develop a set of strategies that compensate for our differences, and camouflage our differences, to try and protect us from the powerful people in our lives, or in our cultures. To try and pretend that we’re not different.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>When Someone Interrupts Your Alone Time </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDuQIgt9dw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=-lDuQIgt9d</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anxiety</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>I know why normal is so appealing.</p><p>Normal feels safe, normal feels like “I'm not going to be the one left out”, “I'm not going to be the outsider, the one who's laughed at”, but even if you are a part of the group, even if you pretend to be normal for long enough and well enough that people don't leave you out: </p><p>You're still not going to feel that acceptance if you're pretending to be someone that you're not, because they don't really know you. </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a></p>
Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach<p>A functional autistic life&nbsp;doesn’t come from imitating a neurotypical life.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autistic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AutisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMasking</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unmasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmasking</span></a></p>
olena<p>You’re not walking around consciously choosing what to pick up. You don’t choose. You don’t decide. It sticks like a crumb you accidentally stepped onto. Like cat’s hair. Good luck trying to get rid of it: while cleaning one, you get three more. Sometimes some dry out and fall off. You don’t choose which either.</p><p>Phrase here, intonation there, a bit of smile from that one, a funny move from another… </p><p>I wonder, if someone who has known you some time ago, meets you again in some years, and then meets some people from the same circles - how long does it take to tell those you’ve been interacting with most during those years by how they’ve grown into you, by spotting in them all those new things you’ve become. </p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/autisticMasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autisticMasking</span></a> <br><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a> <br><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span></p>
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