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Recently Diagnosed and Don't know what to do

sunnysunshine

hello everyone,

I am recently diagnosed as having autism as an adult and I am in a phase of masking and unmasking, I realised that I have a lot of masking traits which is causing me to either have meltdowns or shutdowns. All my life I only mirror how other people live their life and now I don't know what to so with myself, I have also started to compile all of my autistic traits and research about each of them. Any helpful advise will be much appreciated

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  • thank you very much for your replies, there is a masking that I will not be using again as this has caused me multiple anxiety disorders and since I cannot really understand social communication and how it really is and the layers of complications a back and forth conversation can go, it triggers my anxiousness affecting my mental health in addition to it is getting the majority of all the mental and physical energy that I have in addition to panic attacks

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  • thank you very much for your replies, there is a masking that I will not be using again as this has caused me multiple anxiety disorders and since I cannot really understand social communication and how it really is and the layers of complications a back and forth conversation can go, it triggers my anxiousness affecting my mental health in addition to it is getting the majority of all the mental and physical energy that I have in addition to panic attacks

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