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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Masking

NaturalComposer
 Post subject: Re: Masking
Posted: 06 Jan 2022, 7:20 pm 

Replies: 19
Views: 3,659
In my experience, adopting the personalities of television and movie characters in order to fit in and it has never been tiring for me until I eventually burned out later in life. Does anyone else here feel the same? Out of curiosity: Q1: Do you choose characters based on the situation? Your mood? ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Masking

NaturalComposer
 Post subject: Re: Masking
Posted: 04 Jan 2022, 12:36 pm 

Replies: 19
Views: 3,659
In my experience, adopting the personalities of television and movie characters in order to fit in and it has never been tiring for me until I eventually burned out later in life. Does anyone else here feel the same? Out of curiosity: Q1: Do you choose characters based on the situation? Your mood? ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Masking

NaturalComposer
 Post subject: Re: Masking
Posted: 30 Dec 2021, 5:05 pm 

Replies: 19
Views: 3,659
Well, in my case, I'm not actually worrying about body language or pushing myself to behave unnaturally. I'm adopting someone else's personality as my own persona. I only envision myself as that person internally and it actually helps me to relax around other people without having to worry about wha...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Functioning Labels

NaturalComposer
 Post subject: Functioning Labels
Posted: 30 Dec 2021, 3:56 pm 

Replies: 18
Views: 3,060
Why do some people consider functioning labels offensive? It seems to me that there has to be a way to quantify the degree of functionality of someone who is autistic and any way that you do that would have to be considered just as offensive as functioning labels. If this is indeed the case, what do...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Masking

NaturalComposer
 Post subject: Masking
Posted: 30 Dec 2021, 2:25 pm 

Replies: 19
Views: 3,659
Sorry for the repost. I think I placed this post in the wrong section previously... Hello, I'm new to this forum and newly diagnosed with ASD. I have a question to the group about masking... I've heard everywhere that masking is exhausting and I understand why under certain circumstances. My questio...
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