SOCIALIZING WHILE AUTISTIC – HOW TO SURVIVE
Socializing is difficult for most autistic people. Here is why it can be so hard, and what can help autistic people survive social interactions in a non-autistic world with concrete real life examples.
“YOU DON’T LOOK AUTISTIC!” – AUTISM AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Many autistic people get told that they “Don’t look autistic.” at some point in their life. Here is my take on why that sentence is never helpful and also always factually wrong. A new perspective on how everything about the way I look IS distinctively autistic – once you understand what you’re seeing!
MASKING AND PASSING – WHAT IT IS, WHY IT’S BAD
WHAT MASKING IS AND WHY IT EXISTS Masking means suppressing everything about yourself that is visibly autistic to appear non-autistic. Appearing to be non-autistic is what we call “passing” – it’s short for “passing as non-autistic”. ON A PERSONAL NOTE: I prefer to use the term “Camouflaging” instead of masking. “Masking” implies putting a mask