To other autistic people, how good are you at masking?
(To avoid confusion, masking means “acting neurotypical”, it’s not a question about wearing face masks)
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- and i have an extremely hard time quantifying my experiences. or describing them sometimes
- anyway ive gone off on a tangent but yeah lol. i just. dont know a damn thing.
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- because like. how am i supposed to know really how i compare to others?
- but i do sometimes just be talking when im not really. when people arent interested
- but they're probably not back in person anyway and i think ive almost outgrown tha placce
- honestly i have no idea
- i dont even really like looking at people's faces
- i dont know
- i feel like i frequently miss something other people know
- i never really completely unmask but then i dont really 'mask' as it were intentionally
- i really do kinda want to go back to my speech therapist
- idk i dont think i say all the things im supposed to and i dont know how my body language is but
- im not good at eye contact lol that one is hard to fake
- like i dont really know how to separate social anxiety from autism when it comes to interactions
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- which sucks because im still going to be autistic when im 30 but whatever
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