Unmasking as a adult

  1. I'm 46 and I have spent my life masking.

I have to mask when I'm out,at work but mostly when I'm at home with my family.  They either get stressed when i say something or jokingly put me down or they simply get stressed there self.

How do people handle it? As I just feel numb most of the time.

Parents
  • I think that everyone, including neurotypicals, mask or camouflage, when interacting with others, to some extent. The trick is to find out which camouflaging techniques cause the least stress and how to de-stress following the use of masking techniques that do cause stress. These approaches are personal to each individual. I de-stress by being on my own and reading, but others might do the same with jogging or long walks etc.

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  • I think that everyone, including neurotypicals, mask or camouflage, when interacting with others, to some extent. The trick is to find out which camouflaging techniques cause the least stress and how to de-stress following the use of masking techniques that do cause stress. These approaches are personal to each individual. I de-stress by being on my own and reading, but others might do the same with jogging or long walks etc.

Children
  • Yes we do all mask to some extent I agree. Thing is the sercety is loud &;doest openly tolerate poeple who are different.

    Many companies only heir disabled poeple because it Rick's a box for them.

    You can have a job interview and it goes well but soon as you say you have a disiblty of some kind, they make some acuse to cut the interview short.

    Not every company does this but most do, I don't care what the government says.