Not all autistic people mask.
For some of us it makes life annoying.
For others of us it makes life extremely dangerous, so much so that we can’t leave our homes safely.
“High masking” is hard too.
We are all autistic.
And that’s the point.
Stop creating hierarchies.
For some of us it makes life annoying.
For others of us it makes life extremely dangerous, so much so that we can’t leave our homes safely.
“High masking” is hard too.
We are all autistic.
And that’s the point.
Stop creating hierarchies.
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You bring up a point of people who think they don’t have needs actually do. I see people so gaslit in this survivalist culture into being disassociated from their own needs. I wonder if you have techniques for people to re-sense their needs which were numbed.
Thx💖
I don’t see it.
Is it the use of the word ‘high’?
If so, what word would you use instead?
Even if you don’t use it that way.
Just saying masking. The type or amount isn’t static for anyone. Categorizing autistic people isn’t helpful. We all have different needs.
Just saying we are ‘autistic’ doesn’t do much other than provide a (valuable) sense of community.
Perhaps you can educate me hot to describe my own lived experience?
Am I not allowed to choose the words I want to use to describe myself?
However I resent being told the language I must use to describe my own condition.
If I have been able to start ‘unmasking’ (with limited success) would that not suggest it is a behaviour, rather than a subtype?
Just rubbed me the wrong way.
This isn’t complicated.
That you don’t recognize them doesn’t make you a “more productive type” of autistic person FFS
and then drag us into a mire of distinguishing what is "being polite" vs "masking"
SO THAT'S FUN.
Was it mainly behavioural or did it also involve how you actually think? Perhaps something else entirely.
I’m struggling with mine (late DX), so eager to learn from the experience of others.
One is "unmasking autism" by Devon Price.
Can't help personally, I've made little progress apart from being publicly comfortable to admit I'm autistic.
"Mrs Autie" trying to sleep now, so will write more tomorrow if you want.