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When masking erases your authentic self

I have been masking so hard for so long that I don't know who I am anymore when I am alone and the silence in my apartment feels like drowning.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The protective strategies that enabled social survival have become a prison that obscures access to genuine selfhood.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Autism spectrum — lived experience?”

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