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Exposure Anxiety: How complex are your social masks?

Kit McDaydream

How complex are your social masks?  is it just you with a bit more (pretended) confidence to cope with a day at college or work?  or do you have complete alters that deal with particular things and are completely different to the 'real you', even though they're using your body to go to your college/workplace in? (so work colleagues etc would see the personality the alter portrayed as 'your personality')

Can you be 'you' in front of anyone at all or is your exposure anxiety so severe you can only be yourself in the house alone when no-one else is there? (other than pets maybe).

K

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  • It is such a relief to hear other people explain making in understandable terms. I have only just received my diagnosis (yesterday). Although it was a relief to finally have a proper explanation for this feeling I have always had that I am not the same as everyone else. 

    In my new job working with a lot of autistic children I am able to be more open about being on the spectrum, but because I mask so well people are often shocked when I say that I am on the spectrum. 

    I can only really be the real me, the train wreck when I am on my own. Even my wife doesn't get to see the real me. She see's the least filtered version of me but the masking is so ingrained and entrenched.

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  • It is such a relief to hear other people explain making in understandable terms. I have only just received my diagnosis (yesterday). Although it was a relief to finally have a proper explanation for this feeling I have always had that I am not the same as everyone else. 

    In my new job working with a lot of autistic children I am able to be more open about being on the spectrum, but because I mask so well people are often shocked when I say that I am on the spectrum. 

    I can only really be the real me, the train wreck when I am on my own. Even my wife doesn't get to see the real me. She see's the least filtered version of me but the masking is so ingrained and entrenched.

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