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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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  • I've found that if you're not comfortable with something or doubt it then it's probably where you're masking, so like a hairstyle, or clothes, a movie you bought - masking is like that. The things you doubt and don't really like aren't really you. You got them, just because, and you doubt them for that very reason. That's what it's like for me. I try to get rid of the things that make me uncomfortable because of masking, otherwise I don't feel like myself and it causes a lot of doubting and confusion, and I don't need that.

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  • I've found that if you're not comfortable with something or doubt it then it's probably where you're masking, so like a hairstyle, or clothes, a movie you bought - masking is like that. The things you doubt and don't really like aren't really you. You got them, just because, and you doubt them for that very reason. That's what it's like for me. I try to get rid of the things that make me uncomfortable because of masking, otherwise I don't feel like myself and it causes a lot of doubting and confusion, and I don't need that.

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