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How to find yourself after years of autistic masking

I've been masking my autism so well for so long that I don't remember who I actually am underneath it all and I'm scared there might be nothing there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The protective strategy of camouflaging authentic responses can become so complete that it obscures access to genuine selfhood.

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