“I don’t want admiration for masking. I want a world where I don’t have to." Masks are heavy. I finally wrote about the decades spent learning scripts, the burnout, and the dream of authentic acceptance as an autistic person. Maybe you'll see yourself in it.
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I Don’t Want Admiration for Masking, I Want a World Where I Don’t Have To
There’s a scene in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that haunts me, not for its horror in the conventional sense, but for its profound, aching…