Letter to young me

with random flashbacks I know you feel broken and lost. I remember it. You feel like there’s something wrong with you, an invisible brokenness, and while you can forget about it when you are alone, when you’re around others it becomes painfully obvious. People sense …

Masking & me

I have mixed feelings about the concept of autistic masking, as I mentioned before. Besides finding the concept very fuzzy and open, I’m also unsure how well it resonates with me personally.

Thoughts on Autistic Masking

Masking is a fuzzy concept which can mean a bunch different things, but in the strictest sense, I think this is what it means: Autistic masking refers to the compensatory strategy of social mimicry, whereby someone on the autism spectrum imitates the social persona of …