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Unmasking as a adult

Bearer1976
  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.

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  • I found out I have ASD 3 years ago at 50, I had masked that whole time. Not long after I lost my dad to Covid , and had to put my mum in care. I had a massive burnout and that made me take a massive look at who I am and what I need. I mask much less, I am kinder to myself and do not preassure myself. My wife used to say that I should mask even more for her but after my breakdown that changed. I now console myself that I know a massive more about myself than I did and that I will only be truely happy when I retire, until then I just slog on.

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  • I found out I have ASD 3 years ago at 50, I had masked that whole time. Not long after I lost my dad to Covid , and had to put my mum in care. I had a massive burnout and that made me take a massive look at who I am and what I need. I mask much less, I am kinder to myself and do not preassure myself. My wife used to say that I should mask even more for her but after my breakdown that changed. I now console myself that I know a massive more about myself than I did and that I will only be truely happy when I retire, until then I just slog on.

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