Published on 12, July, 2020
I’ve heard the term “masking” in relation to autism - I don’t know what this means - does it mean pretending that you don’t have Autism? Someone told me it’s pretending to be intelligent by using “big words” when someone knows too much about certain things (that it is deemed they should not know anything about) and not enough about those things that everyone else “should” know about and where such people need to get “put in thier place”
Its what happens when u do things you don't normally do like going out and talking to people. You mask and it gives you that nudge of courage and u can do things but it cost u a lot of energy and can leave you fried!
Its got me thru most of my school life but left me drained and a little bit frazzled. Most people no the masked Phoebe rather than the proper me which is sad