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”
It just means that you are hiding your true autistic self. You aren’t expressing yourself verbally or physically and you are monitoring your outward behaviour so that it fits in with those around you.