InWeekday AutismbyKathryn Courtney·1d ago“Anticipatory anxiety and executive-function overwhelm around an unscripted logistics task” aka…“Well that’s just silly.”
InInvisible IllnessbyKarl Frederick·Oct 5How I Realised I’d Been Masking My Autism for YearsI always thought the mask was simply my personalityA response icon16A response icon16
Ian Johnson·Sep 28My Learned Tendency Has Long Been to Agree With My Rejecters.The Troublesome Part of My Personality Structure, As I Now Understand It
Mystically_Unbroken·Aug 1I think one of the hardest things about trying to find yourself is realizing how much of yourself…Nobody talks about that part.
Dahlia Tussock·Jul 27PostersI’m at Leigh’s house. Other girls from my grade are here too. Probably Sara and Sarah and Stacy and a couple others from the popular crowd.A response icon2A response icon2
Karl Frederick·Jul 16How to Explain Autistic Masking to Someone You’re DatingThe person they met was real. The effort required to maintain that version of you may not have been sustainable.A response icon1A response icon1
InneurodiversifiedbyJillian Enright·Jun 22Masking AuDHD: Damned If We Do, Damned If We Don’tADHD, autism, and social camouflageA response icon3A response icon3
Asper_Gert·Jun 8To Mask or Not to Mask: The Dilemma of Social Adaptation for People with Asperger’sFor a long time, I didn’t understand why people expected a certain kind of behavior, tone, or reaction from me. I simply thought I was…
