Learn To Unmask - By First Learning About How Women Mask

If women have masked for decades; it can be really difficult to recognise how / when the women mask - to the extent that the women themselves may find it difficult to recall who they were before the masking became their autopilot ...until that is; they reach burnout.

Re-learning about the 4 main ways women mask can help women who are trying to learn how to unmask (particularly relevant to the late diagnosed / self-identified / self-realised Autistic women).

Why do we mask?  What are the benefits and downsides?  How do Autistic women mask?  The biggest misconception about autistic masking?

"4 Strategies of Masking in Women"

By Autism From The Inside

Video: 12:35 minutes

www.youtube.com/watch

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  • There are so many forces that affect autistic people in everyday life to behave in certain ways. I cannot help thinking that an expectation to unmask is just another one of these, this time from sections of the autism community. If masking and camouflaging do not cause you any distress and you cannot envisage how to unmask at all, please do not feel pressurised to conform to anyone else's expectations.

    Unmasking is not a universal panacea for all autistic people. It helps some, but to others it is meaningless and impossible to do.

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  • There are so many forces that affect autistic people in everyday life to behave in certain ways. I cannot help thinking that an expectation to unmask is just another one of these, this time from sections of the autism community. If masking and camouflaging do not cause you any distress and you cannot envisage how to unmask at all, please do not feel pressurised to conform to anyone else's expectations.

    Unmasking is not a universal panacea for all autistic people. It helps some, but to others it is meaningless and impossible to do.

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