“Despite being in a setting where I’m suppose to be my full, authentic self, I still can’t break down those walls and act like myself for fear of judgement.”
With cheeky humor and an easy conversational style, Bee discusses the stresses autistic people experience during the gift-giving holiday season.
Rae Warren talks about masking is something everyone does, but autistic people are forced to wear a mask.
On Autistic Masking Image Description: Words forming the silhouette of a head from the side. The words are common phrases that people use that encourage
Even the Spectrum Critters have to deal with the expectations of masking sometimes, but it doesn’t change who they are! You are perfect just the way you are, too.
Listening to the wrong people can have a devastating impact on the Autistic community. The right organizations can push us into a more inclusive and accepting future for Autistic children.
An autistic mother’s autism diagnosis empowered her to stop trying to make herself and her children “normal” and to embrace being natural system disruptors.
Christine Condo on how the experience of being autistic is like being locked out of a glass room that she can see inside but can never enter.
I am writing this to carve out space for myself in the socially-constructed version of the world. I don’t exist if I’m autistic and all autistic people who act the way I’m acting are masking.
They mention creating a “coaching process” using artificial intelligence, as if autistic people haven’t been “coached” enough into neurotypicality. Unfortunately, our entire lives are made up of neurotypical “coaching.” We often in fact, receive too much coaching in how to act or generally exist among other people.
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