Autistic Masking & How to Unmask Your True Self
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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This felt so personal, this is exactly where I'm at right now, trying to unmask and figure out how to self regulate after a lifetime of supressing my natural self. Thanks so much for sharing, you make me feel more human. You are doing such a great job with these videos.
I'm a teacher and these videos help me to understand my students better, thank you!
I never saw my masking as a privilege. I only every saw it as exhausting and damaging to my mental health. Thank you for this new perspective.
I don’t know if you actually have the energy to read this. But THANK YOU! I feel… seen. In a weird way… I feel like connected to these feelings. And you are speaking to my core. I cry so much because it is overwhelming, to feel this seen (-‘_’-). But I am starting to unmask myself. And let my close people know whenever I need to space out or regulate myself. You are helping many of us!! THANK YOU ✨
These daily videos are really helpful. They always come at the right time ❤
Thank you for sharing your experiences! I relate a lot and it helps knowing I’m not alone.
I relate so much. It’s like I’m an actor performing all the time in every interaction. And when I feel comfortable and being myself around someone, I beat myself up about it later and have very difficult negative thoughts and shame about myself. I’m trying to accept myself and embrace my weirdness more lately bc I realized this pattern.
Good words to share. We do owe it to ourselves. A timely balm for my soul. Thank you, Trevor, for your gentle encouragement. 🩶
I always struggled to answer personality quizzes, and finally have come to the realization that it is because of lifetime of masking. I've lost some touch to my true self. I don't even know when I am masking and how. But I think I can mostly tell based on whether I feel like "I'm on" or more relaxed. I just always thought the feeling of being on is what everyone does, and so I thought about scripting conversations etc. Also having ADHD with being autistic means that for example I want organization, but fail to keep that, and while they kind of cancel each other out partially, it also shows up so that I am extremely organized with some things and completely unorganized with others, and I cannot say yes/no to a question whether I am well organized. So that makes finding my true identity even more difficult often times...
I don’t know how I mask- I’m 48!
I know right. I don't know what I do that I shouldn't either or how to change at age 44.
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I feel you videos would do better if you wrote out a draft of what topics they would cover and post less frequently. but this is your page ultimately and whatever you like to share
Part of my creative journey is sharing whatever is on my heart. Frankly, I don't care about doing things to make my videos "do better". My videos are a representation of authentic content creation that aligns with my heart and my creative process. I will continue to post as frequently as I'd like as this is something I'm passionate about and enjoy doing.
I appreciate the creators consistency and authenticity. Kind of odd to tell someone discussing autism and their struggles with masking that they should draft more.
his posts are doing very well for someone who is just starting out. and you clearly did not pay attention to the video. advising him to mask when he's talking about unmasking is very insensitive