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Masking, personality and hobbies

Vicky

Hey!

I got diagnosed as an adult so I’m pretty sure I’ve been masking my whole life and still not very open with people.  I know I’ve been copying other people (real, famous, fictional).

The question is, how do you know where the masking stops and the real you begins?  How do I know what personality and hobbies and even what clothes I wear are really mine?

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  • Hi.  I’m new to this forum.  My two children (elder boy 23, younger girl 16) both have diagnosis of autism albeit “high functioning”.  I haven’t been assessed myself but am pretty sure I exist somewhere in that spectrum. It’s been really interesting to watch recent tv documentaries looking at masking in particular. One thing that has just occurred to me is that I think my 88 yr old mother is also autistic. Does anyone here have any experience of this at all? She has a history of extreme anxiety which has become off the scale now that she is at the age she is.  There are other reasons who I suspect this but am wondering if there are approaches in engaging with her that would help? Any ideas?

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  • Hi.  I’m new to this forum.  My two children (elder boy 23, younger girl 16) both have diagnosis of autism albeit “high functioning”.  I haven’t been assessed myself but am pretty sure I exist somewhere in that spectrum. It’s been really interesting to watch recent tv documentaries looking at masking in particular. One thing that has just occurred to me is that I think my 88 yr old mother is also autistic. Does anyone here have any experience of this at all? She has a history of extreme anxiety which has become off the scale now that she is at the age she is.  There are other reasons who I suspect this but am wondering if there are approaches in engaging with her that would help? Any ideas?

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