Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm an autistic mum, both ways it seems as my son is autistic, just been formally diagnosed this week, and now we think I might be as well, as both my counsellor and a mental health nurse have mentioned it. I'm in the process of being referred for assessment so I'm working through everything to support that, which has been a bit of a shock as I'd never thought of everything together before and I do seems to have quite a few traits, that by themselves are relatively minor, but all together make it seem quite obvious.
So, I'm just trying to learn at the moment, for me, and for my son!
Hi and welcome, it may not suprise you then when you learn about masking, you may recognise a lot of it and think "oh I've done that quite a long time". It can be quite a revelation once you know what's been going on.
Yes, masking is definitely something I do from the looks of it, so I've been trying to work out what things are things I force myself to do and what things are things I actually want to do. One of my jobs for next week is to write it all down and I think when I do that I'm going to be quite surprised by it all.