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Getting very frustrated trying to find general community to ask a question

Lubiloo.66

Just want to know if any older folks on the spectrum who have successfully masked - well you know with autistic overwhelmed dismissed as hormones - and have survived cancer - niche- have found chemo has had a lasting effect on their ability to mask. Like the real you can no longer be contained or there isn't enough brain left to mask and function?

I know this is not the right space. Was getting very frustrated and my adhd means I have to write this now or ot won't happen so here it is.

I am 59

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  • For what it might be worth to you (I don't fit the criteria you specified above, but I am quite old 50+) and I believe that as we get older, we simply can't be;

    (a) bothered with

    (b) find energy for

    .......masking, nor a lot of the "accommodations" that we provided to other people when we were younger.

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  • For what it might be worth to you (I don't fit the criteria you specified above, but I am quite old 50+) and I believe that as we get older, we simply can't be;

    (a) bothered with

    (b) find energy for

    .......masking, nor a lot of the "accommodations" that we provided to other people when we were younger.

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