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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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  • Thank you for starting this discussion. I’m 41 and I was diagnosed two weeks ago and this is the overriding question that I am sitting with. 

    Having only just been diagnosed, I don’t have all the answers, but I do know I have to try to reduce the amount of masking I do because it is taking up too much energy - but I don’t know who I am without it. Plus, I do it so automatically that I have no idea how to reduce it when I’m in social situations.

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  • Thank you for starting this discussion. I’m 41 and I was diagnosed two weeks ago and this is the overriding question that I am sitting with. 

    Having only just been diagnosed, I don’t have all the answers, but I do know I have to try to reduce the amount of masking I do because it is taking up too much energy - but I don’t know who I am without it. Plus, I do it so automatically that I have no idea how to reduce it when I’m in social situations.

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